Content Warning
This story contains conversations about sexual trauma. This is neither eroticized nor detailed and is part of the characters' backstories. In addition, like the other stories in the Resort Series, a degree of mental influence is included. Although not
Author's Note
If this is your first time reading a Resort story, you can start here, but it will make more sense if you read them in the following order:
1) Mothers and Sons
2) Fathers and Daughters (optional as it is not directly related, although there are a few minor references)
3) Brothers and Sisters
In addition some reference is made to the longer novella "A Legacy of Shadows" but that is largely unrelated, aside from introducing several characters.
Welcome to Carrados. Please enjoy yourself while you're here and remember that what happens here, stays here.
Thank You For Attending!
If this is your first time, welcome to our establishment here on the private island of Carrados! In addition to our five-star luxury accommodations, we also offer experiences that will prove to be edifying, therapeutic, and unavailable anywhere else in the world. We're happy to have you here and we're very excited to aid you in reconnecting with your loved one(s).
Note that the laws here vary significantly from other nations, and some things generally considered illegal or unethical are authorized, so long as they are between consenting adults. Alcohol consumption is also allowed so long as you are a legal adult in your place of origin.
If you are a returning client, welcome back! We've changed a bit. As always, feel free to chart your own path, but we've made things a bit less restrictive than before, and you will find more openness in our programs' instructions as well as more restaurants, group activities, and shared experiences than ever before. We appreciate both your continued patronage and your discretion.
Note: Whenever the guide gives specific instructions, please remember that all exercises and games are designed with precise requirements in mind. Some deviation is expected, but for optimum results, follow all instructions to the best of your ability. This guide uses common terms for sexual anatomy to be more approachable.
Victoria Evans stepped off of the plane and onto the tarmac. It was a beautiful day, warm, but not hot. Small picture-perfect cotton clouds scudded across the deep blue Caribbean sky. The runway was brief, and a small modern building and tower were all that indicated that they were, in fact, at a fully functional airport. Even here, she could see the wild dunes and trees lining what must be one of the nearby beaches. There were no native peoples here, there hadn't been for centuries, but there was a village, the Resort, and of course, the De Heer compound on the other side of the island. What she wouldn't give to get in there. But this would have to be enough.
Victoria turned to look at her brother. She had only a small bag slung over her shoulder. Like her, he carried just a duffle for the whole week. Even his frown turned into a smile as he took in the landscape.
"You were right," Eric said reluctantly, " It is beautiful here."
"Are you glad you came, yet?" Victoria answered.
Eric laughed, and for just a moment, Victoria wished things could be different for them. Here he looked younger, and she could see the cheerful boy that she'd wanted to run away with so many years ago. But the past couldn't be changed, and the things that had been said and done couldn't be...
"Let's just say that things haven't been awful. Is that good enough for you?"
As quickly as it had come, Eric's old boyish charm disappeared, replaced with the cynical mask that he wore so often. Victoria couldn't bring herself to say so, but she didn't blame him. It was better this way. At least he was prepared for the world. If you knew people would use you, then you would be ready for them, and could turn the tables and use them right back. Maybe one day he would thank her for that lesson. Not today, though.
"It is. Is the money still good enough for you? Plus the free vacation, of course."
"Yeah, I guess, even if it is to Incest Island. I've got no complaints about the money, though."
Victoria looked uneasily at the bus that pulled up. Older men and younger women, presumably fathers and daughters, stepped out. They all looked happy. No one looked forced or traumatized. Some were touching each other a bit more than family members normally would have, but beyond that, they looked pleased and relaxed. One girl, shorter, with copper red hair, slightly darker than Victoria's own, turned to her father and kissed him on the lips, her small hand finding his crotch. Well, so much for wholesome appearances.
"Don't call it that while we're here," Victoria said, offhandedly. "It was tough enough getting in."
"I'm not stupid, Vic. I'll play my part so you can do your job." Eric said. He knew she hated that nickname. Again, though, what did she expect? The money she was offering him to be here was good, but it wasn't like she could buy his forgiveness. It didn't matter. This would make her career, if she played it right. She would be happy to share the success with Eric, if that was what he wanted. Maybe then he would be more amicable to spending time with her.
"I know you will, little brother," Victoria said softly, with a determined smile. "Together, we'll bring this whole sick place down. We'll make the faces and names of everyone who ever visited public knowledge. They'll be world famous and we'll be rich."
Eric frowned a little at her screed. He'd heard it often over the last few weeks. Victoria didn't notice, however. She was already walking to the bus.
Jessica Preston looked out the window and watched the placid blue sea of the Caribbean move beneath the small charter jet. Islands dotted the landscape laid out beneath her like an amazingly handcrafted map. Everything today seemed so bright and
real
somehow, as though she was truly awake for the first time in months.
Jessica saw her brother's reflection in the window. He was looking at her, quite openly. She felt her body warm and tingle under his attention, as it always did. Today, though, it was so much worse. Or better, depending on how you looked at it. Jessica was so close to getting what she wanted, or at least she thought she was, and she was so nervous she felt that she might come apart.
Jessica turned to look at Marcus directly. She had been hoping that she would catch him in the act of checking her out, which would make him feel a little of the same embarrassment that she did. When she looked at him, he just smiled a little, his eyes locking with hers. His placid, caring expression didn't change. Jessica felt her face heating up and she looked down at her lap with some difficulty. She was breathing hard now, and felt a mix of shame and arousal.
Marcus had looked at her in a way that she'd never seen before and didn't quite understand. No, that wasn't true. He had hunger in his eyes, a man's hunger, not a boy's. Jessica thought that she might melt, right there in the seat, and tried to control her breathing. It was bad enough when Marcus didn't know how she felt, but now that their mother had spoken to him, he seemed to be able to make her fall apart so easily. It wasn't fair at all.
Jessica felt his hand close on hers, and she jumped slightly.
"It's ok," Marcus said, just loud enough to be heard over the dim hum of the engines. "You don't have to worry. You don't have to do anything you don't want. I know I'm not supposed to tell you anything until we land, but if you just want to have a normal vacation, then no-one here will interfere."
Jessica took Marcus' hand in both of hers and looked at him. She felt calm again. Sometimes she forgot in the intensity of her desire that the man that she loved was who he was. Marcus would never push or prod or force her to do anything, unless that too was what she wanted. He was safe, and in the best way possible.
"N-no. I...I want to um...be here with you," Jessica said, lamely. There was no way that she could bring herself to say the words, to ask him for what she really wanted. She hoped that he understood that she didn't want a "normal vacation" with her brother. What she wanted was a
honeymoon
.
Since the conversation at the coffee shop, Jessica had paid more attention to the way Marcus acted around their mother. She could never be one-hundred percent sure, because they still were quite guarded, but she noticed things that she had missed before. Small touches, whispers, even kisses.
Jessica was certain now that her mother and her brother were, to some extent, romantically involved. But were they really lovers? Like lover-lovers? She had a difficult time imagining that. To be honest, she had difficulty imagining her mother having sex, and didn't try very hard to do so. Certainly there had been very little affection between her mother and her father. Would it be such a bad thing if Marcus and her were making love?
Jessica could admit that it bothered her. More even than the sex, it was the idea of that closeness between them, the secret sensuality and touching and fulfillment. If her mother shared the same ache for Marcus, then didn't Jessica also deserve it?
No, that was wrong. Jessica wasn't entitled to that kind of love. She had to earn it. She was determined to do so.
"So, you really can't tell me anything?"
Marcus rolled his eyes as the shuttle made its final turn into the reception area.
"For the last time, I won't. I don't even know for sure. I bet it will be pretty different from when Mom and I came, so we'll find out together, ok?"