I decided to split the last part into two chapters.
Enjoy and comment as appropriate.
LB
Previously
Saskia looked over at her mother as she drove away from the cottage on the Monday morning and still couldn't gauge how the weekend with Alex had gone. Rowan had been quiet when Saskia had pulled up but had a glow about her. She gave off the air of someone completely and utterly relaxed.
Her daughter considered it a positive result that she wasn't morose and depressed or spitting feathers so it could not have been that bad. She hadn't asked the specific question as she assumed that Rowan would offer up the information voluntarily but that had not been forthcoming. She could not wait any longer.
"Well ... how did it go? Did the pair of you get along? I had hoped that Alex would still be there when I came to pick you up so I could see the interaction between the pair of you, but I guess he has to go to work."
Her mother looked over at her with a dreamy expression.
"It was fine dear. Yes, he had a meeting so had to leave quite early. He woke me up when he pulled out ... the boy has no consideration for anyone."
Saskia caught the slight upturn in her mother's lips and tried to work out what the enigmatic smile meant but was at a loss to understand. She pressed on with her interrogation.
"So, what did you do, just sit and talk or did you do stuff together? Did you use the facilities ... it is a wonderfully equipped place don't you think?"
Rowan's voice was full of innuendo.
"Oh yes, dear. We used just about every thing they had to offer. I can't think of any facility we didn't use. In fact some of them got used more than once. We did lots of physical activity and I can't say that I've ever felt so thoroughly fucked ... err ... I mean knackered after a weekend of activities."
The small giggle that accompanied that statement sounded odd to Saskia's ears but then the whole of her mother's behaviour was decidedly odd. The aura of sated calmness about her was unnerving and had never been witnessed by her daughter before. Rowan stretched languidly and gave a small grimace and whimper which set Saskia's thoughts flying off at tangents.
'If I didn't know better I would say she got laid this weekend.'
She shook her head to try and dispel that thought.
"So what did you do? You can't just have sat and talked for the whole weekend? Did you play tennis, swim, go for a walk ...? Did you invite anyone else over?"
Rowan turned to her daughter and smiled sweetly.
"No, of course not. It was just Alex and me and we had a lot of quality time together ... alone. Now you know what it was like when you used to come home from school and I'd ask what you had done and you would say '
not much
' or a '
bit of this and a bit of that
'. Suffice it to say that Alex and I had a wonderful weekend together and have sorted out our relationship ... "
Rowan paused and Saskia looked over at her and caught sight of her mother biting her lower lip with an expression of utter bliss on her face. The expression was gone as soon as Rowan realised that Saskia was looking at her. She cleared her throat and continued in a neutral voice.
"We will be seeing more of each other ... in fact I might go and stay with him for a while ..."
Rowan trailed off once more and Saskia glanced over again and saw her mother looking at her with another goofy expression.
"Well, I'm glad if has sorted out the problem between you two."
Her mother smiled happily.
"Oh, it certainly did that.. You were right by the way ... I think I would give him the same description you did ... 'pretty much the real deal ... in terms of what I look for in a guy'
...
all that has done has shown me that your Dad and I have some issues ... we may not ... umm ... "
Rowan coughed as she halted but otherwise seemed unfazed by the fact that she had started to say something indiscrete. Saskia was perplexed by the linkage between the comment about how perfect Alex was and her relationship with her husband and it set her mind racing.
'What the hell have they been talking about ... what the hell have they been doing?'
Saskia looked over at her mother who was far too calm and relaxed and had a sudden insight which left her reeling.
'OMG... Fuckkkk! Come on there has to be some other explanation ... but she said there was no one else there over the weekend ... and she shows all the hallmarks of having been laid ... Alex was the only one there ... fuckkk ... there were signs from before ... their attitude to each other after the night before the wedding ... and then he got that chubby when he saw her in my sexy dress that night ... then Mum's attitude over him going off with Emma ... Jesus ... the jizz on my dress was because they were fucking at the wedding ... it was nothing to do with Emma ... they have done it before!'
Saskia tried to come up with another reasonable explanation for Rowan's words and behaviour but in the words of Sherlock Holmes ...
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth
...
Alex and their mother had spent the weekend fucking!
And she had set it up!
Chapter 32
After dropping Rowan at the station, Saskia sat in the car and pondered what to do. She repeatedly picked up her phone and put it down again as she tried to work out what to say to her father ... or whether to say anything at all. She had no proof that her mother and brother had been having sex over the weekend and would sound like a crazy person if she rang her father and told him about her suspicions. Suspicions built on what? That her mother looked and acted like she had just got laid and that she and Alex had mended their relationship. OK, there had been some inkling at the wedding that things were different between the pair of them and the circumstantial evidence of the stained dress but that would hardly stand up in court! Saskia knew that her father would want more proof than her skimpy suspicions but then started to think about some of the comments he had made in the past ... about Rowan only being happy if Alex was in a relationship with a clone of herself. Did her father have an inkling of what was going on in his wife's head? If so why had he suggested throwing them together over the weekend to sort out their differences if he thought they might end up having sex together? Had he cuckolded himself?
Under those circumstances why would she tell him anything? Did she owe it to him to let him know that his wife and son were possibly committing incestuous adultery? Yes, he was her father and she had always been Daddy's Girl but should she take his side in what was sure to become, a horrendous family schism? No, she needed to have a civil relationship with both her parents going forward especially against the background that she felt sure that they were going to split up. No, she would not say anything ... even if she was disgusted by her mother's behaviour!
Disgusted?
No, that was the wrong word as she saw the attraction of Alex as a man ... as a lover ... a partner ... a father to her child ... a husband ... but those particular traits were not something one was supposed to act on if it was a family member!
However, despite the social and moral strictures against it, it would appear that both she and her mother felt the same way about Alex but her mother had got there first!
Saskia looked at herself in the rear-view mirror and realised that what she was feeling was not disgust but jealousy or, to be more precise, envy. It could hardly be considered jealousy as she would not have made a move on her brother whatever her new-found recognition of what he was as a man. Her mother, on the other hand, certainly seemed to have made advances ... or was it the other way round? Saskia pondered whether Alex may have been the instigator but concluded quickly that he had been doing his best to avoid contact with his mother ... he had run away from the wedding after all. Was that a sign that he was trying to do the right thing? She thought back on the conversations with her mother after he had left that evening and realised that Rowan had also reluctantly accepted what he had done. They were trying to fight the mutual attraction until they had been forced together over this weekend ... and who had organised that?
Doh!
She slumped back into her car seat and considered whether she should do anything at all before realising she needed to prove herself right first. She needed evidence of their illicit relationship so decided to skip her lecture at uni and go back to the cottage as there would surely be some evidence of their physical activity if they had, indeed, been making the beast with two backs.
There was a van parked in the drive when she returned to the remote house and realised that it was the maid service come to clean the property for the next guests. She hoped that they would not have cleaned all the evidence away and walked towards the house passing laundry bags outside the front door ready to be sent for cleaning and plastic bin liners full of rubbish.
She was possibly too late but entered the house anyway thinking of all the possible locations that the two lovers would have consummated their illicit relationship.
Did they ever get further than the stairs after the video call on the Saturday afternoon? She looked over at the ornate staircase and could envision her mother still in the bikini laying back on the stairs as a fully clothed Alex forced her legs apart so he could access Rowan's dripping cunt with his mouth. In return she pulled his head harder against her needy clit and with a look of bliss on her face.