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Because I don't have to; standing right in front of me is Becca Lowell

She turns to ure out what the look on her face means

Is she hurt? Distraught?

"Becca," I say, droppinghappened with your mom," I say

She smiles at me "I know," she says and takes a step over Is it me or does she sound happy?

"I heard everything Mom said," she says and then stops herself "ILorna said Since she's not really my mother"

This is the part that I fucking dreaded

"You heard that?" I ask

"Mason, it's okay," she says to me and wraps her arms around me "Itmy stepdad anymore since I'm technically not related to her at all Thank you for standing up to her"

I pause Becca's happy I guess I can understand, but a part of me stirs when she says the word stepdad

"I guess we're just two people then who aren't related at all," I say slowly

Becca unwraps herself and takes a step back "But it's so dirty to still irin

I feelat her It's filthy It's taboo

"Do you want to fuck me?" she asks me And then slowly she says the word, "Daddy?"

I have no idea how she got here before me But when she pulls her pink shirt over her head I stop caring