“God, you’re so filthy, daddy,” I tease when I finally break the kiss for some much needed air.
“So are you, baby girl. You like when daddy defiles you?” Dominic’s eyes blaze with lust, and love, and it warms me from my heart to my pussy.
“Yes,” I whimper out. “I like when daddy fucks me, when he owns me, when he loves me,” I say finally.
I kiss him again, and I’m lost in his touch. Dominic is everything to me. And I can feel that he means it when he says I’m everything to him.
60
Daphne
You think the story is totally over, don’t ya?
It’s okay. Most people would.
The truth is, it’s barely started.
You see, the thing is that sure, I might be going out with Dominic now. I might be engaged to marry a man that once used to be my stepdad. But life doesn’t end there. It’s not like the last act in the tapestry of our lives. Far from it.
I mean, you remember Lisa? You remember Ashley? Kim? My friends? They have lives too. And my life intersects with theirs, just as theirs intersect with mine.
So, it’s not fair to say this is the end. Because each of them will have things that happen to them. They’ll look for love if they haven’t found it. And they’ll find it. And they’ll celebrate it like I am right now. With the man that makes me happy. With the man that makes me feel safe.
I guess after all that talking what I’m trying to say is that my story isn’t complete nowadays unless you take Dominic’s story into consideration. And then take my friends’ stories into consideration as well. Because I’m just one piece of a much larger tapestry.
So don’t worry, you actually will be able to experience all that – my friends and all – in a little bit. But right now, it’s important that you ruminate with me on this fact that my life is—
“Are you gonna eat that?” Dominic asks from across the table and I roll my eyes as I look at him.
“I was thinking something serious, babe,” I say making sure I use just the right amount of exasperation in my voice. He needs to be chastised, but not discouraged.
“Yeah, and I was asking if you were going to each the last of the sausage on your plate” Dominic asks me, matter-of-factly.
It’s Sunday morning and we’re sitting at Ulysses on Stone Street as we have brunch. The ships and tourists are piling up near the South Street Seaport all heading to Governor’s Island. Lucky for me, Dominic has his own boat that will take us to Governor’s Island when we’re ready to go.
But as bucolic as this scene is, Dominic seems intent on wanting to ruin it. Namely by asking again. “Daphne, seriously, don’t waste good sausage.”
Okay, maybe it’s just me, but I can’t help but giggle a little bit. Dominic looks at me with confusion on his face.
“Is everything okay, Daph?” he’s asking me and I can’t help it at this point. I’m full on giggling.
“I’m sorry,” I say, between breaths. “I just kept thinking how you said never to let a good sausage go to waste.”
Dominic rolls his eyes. But I can see the laughter in his eyes. He’s enjoying this as well as me.
The truth is that we’re enjoying each other.
Sure, Carla can still look at me with raised eyes, but she’s got a cowboy that lassoes her to the bed probably some nights. Don’t worry, her story is coming up shortly.
Lisa can act all sympathetic still sometimes but then her eyes go wide every time Dominic does something baller. I guess her outlaw biker sometimes has trouble being alpha – or at least that’s what I tease. Apparently he’s very alpha. Oh, don’t worry, you’ll get to know Lisa too.
But I guess most of all, the fact that I’m able to giggle at inane shit like sausage and Dominic is able to smirk at me while pretending to look exasperated is because we are happy together. Genuinely happy.
I mean, my stepdad is actually my ex-stepdad because he’s chased happiness before, but never really gotten a hold of it. I’ve chased it too. We both have one too many nights in hotels or other people’s apartments where we’ve been disappointed in our partners.
No more.
Now we have each other. And it’s not even that we’re happy because we found each other.
It’s that before we found each other, we didn’t even know what happiness was.
It’s a whole different world I’ve entered with Dominic. I never thought I’d have a life like this.
“Come on,” he says to me, getting up and putting some money on the table. “Let’s go.”
I look up at Dominic and instinctively grab his hand.