*Follow-up to https://old.reddit.com/r/eroticliterature/comments/aowf6r/mf_incest_masturbation_the_limbo_of_thoughts_part/*
She spoke first. “Do we have to talk about it?”. It was morning now. The night had given way to yet another warm sunny day. And the lust had given way to the shame. “No”, “not unless you want to” I said.
What words could we say? I was ready to explain, even though I had no explanation. But I wasn’t about to make her say or do anything she wasn’t comfortable with. She wasn’t at fault. If anything, I was the one who should have known better.
We hardly saw each other after that. I cleaned the house. My wife was coming back home the next day. “Sometime after lunch” she said. I wanted her to find a nice cozy home. It was sullied on the inside. But she wasn’t going to find out. The walls, the countertops, the table, everything would look immaculate, as if to compensate for the sin that had transpired.
That evening, after dinner, I was sorting old paperwork, shredding bank records long past their useful life, when Lisa knocked at the door. She was ready to talk, she said. She had spent the entire day collecting her thoughts. And now she wanted to discuss them.