Second, she knew what he liked. She had watched him when he was marrying her mother. When she had gone home after that, she had wandered around his study and made it her project to find out what he liked, and what he didn’t like. She had been pleased to see that they did share a lot of interests.
He loved classical music – both the real kind of classics and the rock kind of classics. So did she. That often made her the odd one out among most people of her age.
He loved books. He loved Shakespeare, Dickens, Marlowe, G.K. Chesterton, and, surprisingly, P.G. Wodehouse. She had never quite discovered the appeal of Marlowe, but she was completely on board with all of the rest of his choices.
He loved theatre. She had seen ticket stubs that he had kept, from all kinds of shows. He had seen everything, from A Streetcar Named Desire to Cats. It had made her wonder what he had seen in her mother. Liz didn’t like the theatre. Liz didn’t like the music he liked. Liz didn’t like to read anything other than her magazines. There was nothing wrong with any of that, of course, except that she seemed to have nothing in common with Richard at all.
Dani did. She felt as if she knew him already. Of course, he was also extremely charming. He had treated her like a child, but he hadn’t talked down to her. He just hadn’t noticed how much she had fallen for him.
Richard had travelled, all through Europe and even parts of Asia. Dani had never travelled abroad. She really wanted to. She wanted to see Paris, Prague, Venice, and Vienna – all of it. She wanted to see all of the most beautiful and historic places in the world, and she wanted to see it all with Richard.
That was one thing he had in common with Liz. Liz loved to travel, too. But Dani was sure that they didn’t quite see traveling the same way. They couldn’t. Liz loved shopping everywhere. If Dani could travel with Richard, they would see everything together – they would go to museums, and the theatre, and the opera. She really wanted to watch an opera being performed.
Thinking of all that made Dani calm down a bit. She was his perfect woman. She had made sure of that. She knew that he was an intelligent and discerning man. Surely he would see that she wanted him. He must.
She just had to have faith in herself, decided Dani, getting up and hopping into the shower. She knew she could do it. She knew she could seduce Richard. He would be glad that she did, because she would make him so much happier than Liz ever could.
Dani kept up the pep talk as she packed. Halfway through, she poked Trish and woke her up.
“Get up, get up, get up. We’re leaving today, remember? I’m almost done with my packing. Get up now and I’ll help you with yours,” sang Dani.
“Ugh,” groaned Trish. She was not a morning person, and it was barely eight.
“I’ve changed my mind. I’ll drive down after lunch,” mumbled Trish.
Dani only figured out what Trish had said through long practice. It sounded very much like ‘ungghdrrnch’.
Cheerfully, she poked Trish again.
“Come on, lazy. Get up.”
“You morning people. You should be outlawed,” mumbled Trish, giving up and sitting up.
“It’s barely eight! We were supposed to say goodbye and leave at ten. I’ll only need half an hour to pack,” grumbled Trish after she checked the time.
“You always forget half your stuff when you pack in a hurry. Now go on, get to it,” said Dani.
Trish glared back at her malevolently.
“What’s got you all chirpy? Was there a booty call last night?”
Dani laughed.
“Brian called, yes, but I didn’t go. You know, I think he’s gotten a bit too serious too fast. He seems to be really into me.”
Trish made a failed attempt to get out of bed and plopped back down instead.
“Well, yeah, he thinks you’re the best thing since sliced bread.”
“But Trish, I didn’t make any promises or give him any indication that I wanted to date him. We hooked up and I left, and that was it. I haven’t even been flirting with him or anything. College boys aren’t supposed to be so clingy after one hook-up, are they?”
Dani sounded honestly puzzled and made Trish chuckle.
“Oh, Dani. Every guy in college considers you a hot mystery. I don’t blame Brian for wanting you. But no, you didn’t lead him on or anything, so it’s not your fault.”
“Hey, don’t you go back to sleep!”
Dani prodded Trish again.
“Fine, fine, I’m up, I’m up,” she said, and finally got out of bed.
“Last day, though,” said Trish.
Dani paused, a shirt half folded.
“But we’ll be back in a month,” she pointed out.
Trish smiled.
“Yes, we will. Let’s hope we have a few interesting stories to tell when we do.”
Dani grinned.
“Oh, I’m counting on it.”
Chapter Two
Dani dressed with care. She didn’t want to look like she was seeking attention. But she wanted to get Richard’s attention anyway. After much contemplation, she decided on denim shorts – appropriate for summer. She pulled on a snug fitting pair of short shorts that showed off her long, toned legs – and a strappy t-shirt, with a diaphanous, floaty top over it. The bleeding pinks of the top looked really good with her tan.
“Wow, Dani, you look really good,” said Anna, who was helping Trish pack, too. The half an hour she had claimed it would take had stretched into two. It was already ten. Dani had planned to be well on her way by ten.
She had a couple of hours’ drive ahead of her. She wanted to be there by afternoon. She couldn’t quite remember if she had told Liz when she would be home. Never mind, Liz had said that they would be home all day.
Dani was feeling a bit conflicted. Now that she was an adult, was it petty of her to hold that little hard nugget of resentment for her mother? Maybe it was time to let go and move on.
But she was planning to steal her husband from her, if she could. She was determined to believe that she could. Now that the hour was almost upon them, she was beginning to feel like a bit of a bitch for planning something like that.
But, she reminded herself, you couldn’t steal a person who didn’t want to be stolen. At the end of the day, she wasn’t going to force Richard to look at her differently. She was just going to be herself and make her interest known. If Richard decided to act on it, that wouldn’t be her fault. That would mean that Richard wasn’t happy with Liz, and nobody would be to blame for that.
Besides, Dani had always known that fidelity wasn’t her mother’s strong point. Even when she was in boarding school, she had known that her mother had a lot of boyfriends. She found it very hard to believe that in the last couple of years, she had turned into a one-man woman.
That way, she rather felt like her parents had been meant to be together. They had divorced because each had cheated on the other, but they were both so similar – cut from the same cloth, really. Dani was determined not to turn out like either of them.
She thought that her father was on his fourth wife at the moment. She had never met two of her stepmothers, including her current one. She didn’t think there was much of an age difference between Dani and the latest one, so she was glad. It would have been beyond awkward, anyway.
“Earth to Dani! Do you receive? Dani, come in!”
That made her snap out of her reverie and laugh. Anna had apparently been talking all along.
“Sorry, was just thinking,” said Dani, sheepish.
“You know, my Iowa offer still stands,” remarked Trish.
Dani grinned.
“And it is much appreciated, but I do need to go home.”
“Why?”
The blunt question made her baulk a bit.
“Well, it’s home,” said Dani.
“Home is where the heart is. Your heart’s not there,” dismissed Anna.
Dani blushed. She couldn’t help it. Of course Anna noticed, even if she was folding socks.
> “Dani… There’s something you’re not telling us,” she said shrewdly.
Dani shrugged.
“I need to go home and sort things out. I need to make sure that things are fine.”
Anna gave her an odd look, but didn’t press the issue.
“Right, now, sit on it and let’s hope it closes,” said Trish.
After a dint of struggling and squeezing, they finally managed to close the monster of a suitcase Trish insisted on carting around everywhere.
“You are absolutely not bringing that thing along for next spring break. Absolutely not,” declared Anna.
“It’s my good luck suitcase,” insisted Trish.
Dani laughed, enjoying her friends.
“And you are my good luck nutcase,” said Dani and grabbed them both in bear hugs, surprising them.
“You are coming back, right?”
Anna sounded deeply suspicious.
“Of course I’m coming back. Why wouldn’t I? It’s either college or adult responsibilities. I wouldn’t give up another year of carefree college life for anything,” assured Dani.
Dani grabbed her much more reasonably sized suitcase and they made their way out. Loading up Trish’s suitcase in the trunk was another Herculean endeavor.
“I swear that trunk is going to pop open halfway home,” Anna told Trish.
“Then I hope a cute cop pulls me over,” giggled Trish.
“And what about Hugh?” teased Dani. As expected, Hugh and Trish were dating now.
“He’s not in the trunk, is he?” Trish grinned.
“I’m not sure, that suitcase is heavy enough that you might have stuffed him in when we weren’t looking,” huffed Anna.
Finally, Trish and Dani hopped in and waved their goodbyes. Anna looked a bit forlorn, watching her best friends drive away.
“Come back with lots of hot stories!” she yelled after them.
And they were gone – both going back home, but with vastly different expectations.
Dani took deep breaths to steady her heart and set her sights forward.
She was going home. One way or the other, things would be different when she drove back. She knew what she wanted. Now it was time to see if she could convince Richard that he wanted her, too.
Chapter Three
Dani felt herself get more and more keyed up as she got closer to home. She had driven faster than she had meant to. It was barely one when she finally turned into the driveway and parked her car.
She parked quite a way down the driveway and looked at the house that was supposed to be her home.
She had loved it for a while when she was a child. It was pretty impressive. It was built on two levels and was a sprawling structure, with wings that had been added on. She knew that the estate was pretty large. It had been in her mother’s family for generations. She had come from old money, though her first marriage, to Dani’s father, had been necessary for real money.
Now that she thought about it, she figured it must have been a marriage of convenience. Her father had wanted the stature attached to the old family name. The Donaldson’s had been leaders in the community for a long time. Her mother only wanted more money.
No wonder it hadn’t worked out, she mused as she got her duffel bag out of her car and walked up to the door. She was about to ring the bell when she noticed that the door was open.
That was odd.
She wasn’t too surprised that nobody was outside, waiting for her. She didn’t expect that kind of welcome from her mother, ever. Anyway, she had arrived earlier than she expected.
She pushed the door open and walked in. She didn’t intend to be quite so silent, but her sneakers barely made a sound, and she had left the door slightly open as she had found it.
She stopped, frozen, in the foyer.
The sounds were unmistakable.
“Oh, yes, Richard, like that, baby, oh, that feels so good.”
It was her mother’s voice.
Her voice trailed off into incoherent moans of encouragement and pleasure.
“You’re so beautiful, baby. Your pussy is so hot and wet. Yes, move like that. Yes, like that.”
Dani felt as if a shock jolted through her body. That was Richard.
His voice was drenched in desire. It was hoarse and husky. She could close her eyes and imagine that he was saying those words to her.
He was touching her pussy. He was feeling how hot and wet she was for him.
She could feel herself getting wet as she listened to her mother’s moans.
Drawn irresistibly, she moved closer to the living room door and looked inside, being careful not to be seen.
She saw Richard’s profile. He was naked, and her mother was bent over in front of him, leaning on the couch.
As she watched, Richard stroked his cock, long, thick and hard, slowly.
Dani couldn’t help it. She bit her lip and let her hand drift between her legs, massaging her mound over her shorts, pressing herself.
She watched as the muscles of his ass clenched as he slowly and steadily, pushed his cock deep inside Liz. She could hear Liz moaning in pleasure, but her eyes were on Richard.
Dani couldn’t take it. Carefully, without making a sound, she undid her shorts and slipped her hand inside. She slipped it inside her panties and could feel just how wet she was. She was so hot. She wanted that cock inside her. She wanted to be bent over like that with his cock inside her, thrusting, fucking her hard.
She watched, her fingers rubbing her clit faster and faster as she watched Richard smack Liz’s ass, making her squeal.
Dani had to bite her lip hard to keep from moaning as she watched his cock sliding in and out. It was perfect. She slipped two fingers inside herself, fingering herself, as she watched her stepfather fucking her mother.
And she wished she was the one being fucked, so thoroughly and slowly and steadily, by Richard.
“Yes, that’s it, like that. God, you’re so wet, baby. That’s right,” said Richard, and Dani watched as he slipped his hand between Liz’s legs and started rubbing her clit as he thrusted deep inside her.
Dani blocked out every sound being made by Liz. Her entire world was focused on Richard. He was her dream come true. She saw him fuck her mother harder, and harder, until he finally gripped her hips tight and his body shuddered.
At the sight of him coming, Dani felt the orgasm wash over herself, too. She trembled and leaned against the wall for support.
But sanity returned. On rather wobbly legs, she hurried back outside and all the way back to her car, doing up her shorts as she went, walking as silently as she could.
She got inside and checked for wet wipes. Thank heavens – she wasn’t completely out. She wiped her pussy juices from her fingers and waited till her breathing evened out.
She wanted Richard to fuck her like that. If she had had any doubts whether she really wanted to carry out her plan, this would have gotten rid of every single one. She wanted Richard’s cock, that perfect cock, inside her. She wanted to look into his lovely blue eyes as he told her how perfect she was. She wanted him to come because of her, inside her.
Leaning back, she willed her heart to settle and wiped her face with another wipe. Finally, she checked her face in the mirror. There were no signs of what had just happened with her.
She got out of the car again. This time, she took the suitcase as well and made as much noise as possible, clattering her way into the foyer.
“Hey, how come the door’s open? Anybody home? Where’s my welcoming committee?”
She made her voice sound as cheerful as possible. Hoping they had got themselves dressed and decent, she took a deep breath to bolster herself and walked into the living room.
Chapter Four
“Dani, we weren’t expecting you for a while,” said Richard.
Dani smiled at him, a knowing smile full of a woman’s secrets and sensual promises.
“I did say I would leave as early as I could,” she pointed o
ut.
“Yes, but you’re in college. We thought that meant you would leave by afternoon,” said Liz.
Dani’s smile became a bit sharp as she turned to Liz.
“Well, Mom, there’s this thing called being an adult. I’ve even gotten pretty good at it,” she said, and she meant what she’d said to sting just a bit.
Liz looked slightly taken aback.
Richard jumped in to smooth things over.
“The earlier the better, of course. It means we get to have more of you,” he said enthusiastically.
Dani turned the full power of her smile on him. She injected all the sincerity in the world, with just a touch of wide-eyed innocence into her expression, and she could see that he was more than a bit dazzled.
It looked as if this would be even easier than she thought, mused Dani. He definitely wasn’t looking at her as if she were a child anymore.
“That’s so sweet of you, Richard. We haven’t really got the chance to get to know each other. I mean, I haven’t seen you in three years! You seem to have gotten handsomer,” said Dani, her voice teasing and lightly flirtatious.
“Well, you have grown into a beautiful young lady.”
The words seemed to fly out of his mouth before he could stop himself. Liz, it appeared, thought that Dani had had enough of his attention.
“You’ve put on a little weight,” she said, and the spite in her voice was obvious.
Liz took the opportunity to twirl in front of them and grab her ass.
“No, I think I’ve just filled out a bit, Mom. You look great, though,” she said, feeling generous now that Richard had gotten a complete three-sixty view of her.
Dani sat down on the couch. She could still see how Richard had looked, fucking Liz right there. Dani couldn’t stop her gaze from wandering down to his crotch.
Interesting, thought Dani. She could see a distinct bulge there. She had a feeling that she would get what she wanted soon enough.
“Well, how about lunch, Dani? We were planning to get takeout. What would you like?” asked Richard, again trying to defuse the tension and get past the obvious awkwardness.
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