Lies, Old and New - Sex Stories

Lies, Old and New

... felt her anguish wash over him... and then he shattered too. He'd been wrong and she was right. Some thingswere supposed to happen... and raising the love child of the woman who'd been everything to himwasn't one of them.

"Us." That said it all, really. "I may be your heart, but your soul is there." He pointed to her stomach. "And there's no part of me in that shriveled, sad little thing."

The wails that battered into the back he turned to her would echo in Bastian's dreams for years. Through the dissolution of their marriage, through his exodus from the town they'd grown up in, through the endurance of months upon months of her attempts to contact him and win him back, Bastian thickened the walls he was building around himself until it was a fortress of artic ice. Even when he was told by the remaining family he kept in touch with that Tami had married Chad... he was immutable. Immovable. Immune...

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...Back in the Office

"...until I took this job and, completely by accident, or fate, or whatever... until I saw you, Jelly. Until I looked out over that gaggle of first-graders twelve years ago, was hit by that smile, those green eyes, and knew...knew that you were the child of the woman I never stopped loving."

Those aforementioned eyes were positively gushing by then, and Jillian could only give little shakes of her head as Bash kept talking.I can't hear this, I can't, I can't handle this...

"I made a promise to myself that I'd do whatever I ...

... could to make up for--"

That was it. Jillian shot to her feet then, not even knowing herself what was going to happen next. What that was, it turned out, was a full-body shove into Bash's broad chest that rocked him back in his chair. "Goddamn you Bash,you became my fucking father!" She screamed at him and gripped her violet hair in desperation. "You were the one who helped me and prodded me and guided me and listened to me and let me cry and laugh and... and held me... you werethere! Every fucking day! I loved you so fucking much, and now you're telling me it was all because you miss my mom and feel guilty that you ran away?Fuck you!"

In a flash, before she knew he was even moving, she was within Bash's huge arms, being crushed against his chest while her fists beat weakly on his back. "Jelly no... not that. Never that. The whole world can burn around us, and I'll stay with you to till the last spark dies out." He pulled back enough to put a bit of space between them, then tilted her chin up to lock eyes with her. "I'm a sorry stand-in for the father that should have been there for you fully... but there's absolutely no doubt in my mind that you're the daughter thatI was always meant to have."

Jillian wanted to stay there, in that embrace. She wanted to bury her face in his big chest and live there forever... but she found that her body had other ideas; specifically her arms, which were pushing him away, slowly but firmly. Somehow seeing it as an opportunity--because of ...