Chapter 10

The atmosphere in the van on the drive towards Paris was muted
and sombre and conversation was stilted, not because there was
nothing to say, simply because they were both making sure they
avoided the elephant in the room.

They held hands across the cabin for as long as they could,
re-clasping them after every gear change or when Dan needed both
hands on the wheel for bends. There was none of the flirty and
provocative touching and talking of the previous two days and Dan
left the music system louder than before, shuffling through his
music choice. About 9 hours into the journey, as they got closer
to Paris the song playing came to an end and the rhythmic
percussion intro of the next track caused Dan to reach across to
the power button and turn it off just as a sorrowful piano line
started.

"Why did you turn it off? It sounded nice, I've never heard it
before"

His gaze looked into her beautiful eyes and then quickly turned
his head straight ahead, put both hands on the wheel and after a
pause, said:

"It will make you cry and if you don't, I certainly will"

"Then I think we should listen to it together and cry to it
together. We've avoided talking about what happens next but we
both know that there will be a lot of tears. Leave it off for now
but please pull over at the next stopping place so we can hold
each other and listen to it"

5 minutes later they turned into a quiet rest area and parked
under some trees. The only place for them to really sit together
was in the passenger seat with Juss in his lap, their arms around
each other, their eyes locked together and their faces inches
apart. He punched the power button to the sound system and the
percussion and piano intro of `Drive All Night' carried on until
Bruce Springsteen's plaintive voice joined in:

When I lost you honey sometimes I think I lost my guts too

And I wish God would send me a word send me something I'm afraid
to lose

Lying in the heat of the night like prisoners all our lives

I get shivers down my spine and all I wanna do is hold you tight


Tears started to stream down Dan's face and Juss cradled his head
to her chest, but she too succumbed to the emotion of the lyrics
and Dan's wracking sobs as the chorus played through.

I swear I'll drive all night just to buy you some shoes

And to taste your tender charms

And I just wanna sleep tonight again in your arms


By the time the saxophone wailed into life after the second
chorus they were no longer really listening to the song but lost
completely in the desolation of their situation and the last
verse was nothing more than an accompaniment to their misery
clutching to each other like they were drowning.

There's machines and there's fire waiting on the edge of town

They're out there for hire but baby they can't hurt us now

Cause you've got, you've got, you've got, you've got my love,
you've got my love

Through the wind, through the rain, the snow, the wind, the rain

You've got, you've got my, my love heart and soul


Gradually their sobs slowed and their breathing quietened. Juss
lifted her head and put one hand under his chin and lifted so
that their eyes met.

"It certainly spoils your beauty too" and they kissed, smiled and
sobbed at the same time. After they had composed themselves and
cleaned their faces up as best they could they remained cuddling
in the seat but not speaking for a long time. Dan cleared his
throat.

"We both know that we cannot be together after this, so I'll just
have to carry the memory of your beautiful face with me for the
rest of my life. You know how I feel about you and I know how you
feel about me, nobody can take that away from us even if they
stop us being together"

She put a finger to his lips to silence him.

"Shhsh, lover! Rule 24; true lovers don't need to use words to
explain their feelings."

"Let's not prolong the agony, get me home and you can get this
irritating teenager out of your life!" She grinned and dared him
to challenge her.

"Who made you so fucking wise, I think was your question?" They
both laughed and kissed before Justine climbed off his lap and he
resumed his place in the driving seat and they set off in a
happier mood but without the music.

"Why was he going to drive all night to buy her some shoes?
That's not a great lyric, he could at least have got her a
handbag as well!" she said teasingly.

"Don't knock "The Boss" young lady, or I'll leave you at the side
of the road!"

She reached over and picked up his hand and kissed the back of it
before holding it with both of hers in her lap.

The journey continued in a lighter mood and they circumnavigated
Paris using the peripherique and headed towards Maison Laffitte,
30km to the west of the city where Marie and Justine lived in an
apartment in a beautiful park. Justine asked him to pull over
before they got to the apartment and leant towards him and looked
at him with love in her eyes and whispered:

"Thank you! Thank you for trying to make it easy for me, for us.
I know it's not allowed and I certainly can't invoke the extreme
happiness clause but as I was brought up to be polite, if nothing
else, I should say `thank you' for taking my cherry in such a
considerate manner." She giggled and added "and with such a
wonderful cock! Now, kiss me and tell me you will be ok. Lie to
me if necessary."

"You really are wonderful and because of that I will be ok!"

"Ok, let's go, but you stay in the van while I go in and explain.

As she had no keys she had to buzz the intercom and it was
obvious that someone was home as she pushed the door, turned to
look at him and blew a kiss, and the door closed behind her.

He was sorely tempted to leave, just drive away and not look
back. They would find it difficult to trace him unless they
remembered his van's reg number and even then they would have to
look hard throughout Europe. He knew that it would make it
difficult for Juss because Marie would be suspicious if he didn't
want the anal cherry that was on offer and to carry on with the
burgeoning relationship they had started in Croatia. He had to
stay and take what was coming to him and try to protect Juss as
much as he could.

After a couple of minutes Juss and Marie appeared in the lobby
and beckoned him in frantically. He got out of the van and they
opened the door to the block and Marie looked at him strangely as
though she couldn't quite believe it was him. She stood on
tiptoes and kissed him and whispered:
"Thank you for bringing her back to me'" and pulled him down for
a longer kiss that he felt that he had to match in passion. He
caught sight of Justine's stricken face and heard her say in her
stroppy teenage voice:

"Get a room, you two" and walked to elevator up to the apartment.

Marie withdrew from him and smiled.

"You didn't manage to improve her manners then!" and took his
hand and led him into the apartment.

Marie fussed with drinks and offered food and the three of them
sat in the large living room with Marie sitting close to Dan in
one sofa and Juss on her own on the one opposite.

Dan was not sure what Juss had said so far and she wouldn't meet
his gaze as he looked at her so didn't know where to start.
Fortunately, Marie launched in with her own tale of how she had
become concerned when Juss didn't answer her phone on Friday and
early Saturday and obviously wasn't online on Facebook. When she
hadn't been able to contact Henri either on the Saturday, she had
sought help from the Irish embassy in Zagreb who asked the local
police to make enquiries at the campsite

The information had come back later on Saturday that the smaller
RV was still there but empty and the big RV had left on the
Friday but the occupants had left on the Thursday evening. This
was worrying to Marie as she had no idea where they may have
gone. Not knowing what else to do she had flown back to Paris to
discuss things with Marie's father and he had finally tracked
Henri down at one of his homes in Cannes. Henri had been less
than forthcoming about where Juss may be, saying that she and
Eloise had a falling out over some boy they had met at the beach
and when he was called urgently away to a business meeting he had
taken Eloise with him but assumed that Justine would remain in
the other RV.

Increasingly frantic they had arranged via the embassy for a
photograph of Juss to be handed out that very morning in the
campsite and public places nearby. There had been only one
response, early this afternoon, from an old gentleman who
remembered seeing Justine and her boyfriend at a supermarket on
Friday. His description of the boyfriend was vague as he had been
entranced by the lovely girl. At this point Marie stopped.

"Shit, I had better call your dad to let him know you are all
right and then the embassy in Zagreb to call the search off.
Justine, why you don't show Dan the guest suite so he can have a
shower while I do this stuff. You look like you could do with a
shower and clean clothes yourself. I won't be long."

After she left the room, Dan moved and knelt in front of Juss and
took her hands until she finally looked at him with the look of a
rabbit caught in the headlights. He smiled lovingly at her and
tears appeared in the corners of her eyes.

"Oh, Dan I don't know if I can do this, when I saw her kiss you,
I was shouting `he's mine' in my head. Then I started to blame
you for kissing back. I'm so sorry, I can't help it."

"Yes, sweetheart, it's difficult and the sooner I get out of here
the better for both our sakes. Now, show me the shower before she
comes back."

They could hear Marie on the phone in another room so she took
his hand and pressed it to her lips. She showed him the guest
bedroom but didn't come in with him and hurried away to her own
room. Dan climbed into the shower and let the emotional day wash
away down the drain. Not having clean clothes with him he started
to put his dirty ones back on but the bed looked so inviting,
after the marathon drive and exhausting sex of the last two days,
that he lay down for a few seconds and closed his eyes with the
towel still wrapped around him.

He awoke with a start. The room was now dark but with light
filtering in from street lights outside and somebody had covered
him with a blanket although the towel was still wrapped around
his waist. He started to move and realised there was someone else
on the bed behind him.

"Juss, what are you doing here. It is not a good idea"

"So you've been fucking my daughter, you bastard" said Marie's
venomous voice from above him.

He twisted around quickly and saw that she was sitting with her
back against the headboard. He looked at her but couldn't see her
eyes but guessed they were blazing"

"Marie!"

"Yes! Remember me?"

He had guessed that this conversation might one day take place
but had never planned how to respond and thought for a long time
for something to say, but could think of no appropriate response.


"Cat got your tongue you fucking pervert? She's 14 for Christ's
sake!"

He didn't think the `she seduced me' line was going to cut any
ice and was hardly the action of someone who loved her, Juss
deserved to be protected from any blowback that would happen not
be thrown into it"

"How did you know, unless I just gave the game away?"

"She told me."

"Oh, Juss, what have you done" he thought.

"She told you? When?"

"We found you asleep on the bed and she got the blanket and
wrapped you in it and just by the way she did it I could tell she
is completely and utterly in love with you. So I asked her and
she nodded and then burst into tears. I thought it was because it
was unrequited puppy love so I told her she would eventually
share love and happiness with someone special and that she would
forget her crush on you. Do you know what she said?"

He shook his head.

"She said that she had shared more love and happiness in 3 days
with you than I have had in my whole life. She said it with such
passion that I knew ... I knew ....." she tailed off, paused for
a long time and then continued in a quiet, pleading voice"

"Why, Dan? You and me, we had found something that looked like it
was going to be very special. I know it was only for a few hours
but it was real to me and I thought it was real for you."

He reached his hand over and put it on her thigh, she flinched
but didn't push it away.

"It was real for me and I know this sounds trite but I never
intended this to happen. If it's any consolation, she really is a
truly wonderful person, it wasn't just about the sex."

"No that's no consolation at all. I know it, she's my daughter,
she's my 14 year old child."

"Trust me, she is anything but a 14 year old child and maybe you
need to consider that. She's a very beautiful, clear thinking,
funny, sensible, caring, considerate, wonderful young woman with
all the dreams and desires of a young woman.  For a little while
I had the honour and privilege to share some of those dreams and
desires but she and I both know that it can't continue. Despite
what she may say, and I've told her this, I know that if it did
continue, at some point in the future those dreams and desires
would not include a man 20 years older than her and I would lose
her, and I would be devastated. See, it wasn't just about sex
with a 14 year old girl for me, I too am, to use your words,
`completely and utterly in love' with her."

"I know and it is that that hurts most"

"What do you mean?"

"I can hear the glow in your voice when you speak about her and I
would see it in your eyes if it wasn't dark. I want someone to
speak about me like that and I thought you might be that person.
I've come out second best to my daughter"

"Marie, you are second best to no-one"

She touched his head and stroked it.

"Giving me compliments and boosting my confidence again, trying
to share the love like we did in the restaurant?"

She was silent for a long time and Dan thought he could hear her
quietly sobbing. He stroked her thigh and she stoked his head
again before sliding down in the bed to be next to him and
resting her head on his chest. He slid his arm around her and
kissed the top of her head. She snuggled closer.

"What are we going to do?" she asked with a tear streaked voice.

"How do you mean?"

"What are the three of us going to do? If you leave now, she will
be devastated and ... and .... so will I. If you stay, it will be
very complicated because your relationship would have to stay
secret and I would be very jealous of what the two of you have
and maybe she would be jealous of me at times."

"You would seriously consider me staying and continuing on with
Juss? I had expected to be handed over to the authorities for
trafficking, kidnapping and statutory rape of a minor"

"I did think about that when I first knew because I was so
fucking cross but what would my relationship be like with Juss if
I put her forever life partner in gaol? Yes, she told me, and she
is very determined to prove you wrong."

"I don't think it is just up to us, we have to ask Juss what she
wants"

"I vote for you to stay" said a firm voice from the doorway.

"Juss!" they both lifted their heads.

"How long have you been there?" asked Marie.

"Long enough to know that you both love me very much! Not that I
doubted it for a minute."

She came forward and sat on the bottom of the bed.

"The one thing that did surprise me was the amount of love you
have for each other, I can hear the glow in both of your voices
to use your expression, mummy, just like that evening in Croatia.
And, yes, I did feel a twinge of jealousy; I hope I can learn to
control that. However, with all the love around how can we go
wrong? Now budge over I want a cuddle too!"

She slid on to the bed and nestled in the crook of his arm with
her head on his chest close to Marie's. They looked across at
each other and Marie stroked her daughter's face.

"He's right; you really are a remarkable person"

"That's because I'm the daughter of a really remarkable person.
Do you know that Dan said he couldn't decide which of us was the
most wonderful person he had ever met and declared it a tie."

"Well that's settled then. He is either a coward who can't make a
decision or he is a man of incredible perception as well as
having a fantastic cock." They giggled.

"Talk about me as if I'm not here, why don't you?"

"Shsh, we're having a mother - daughter bonding session, you will
have to get used to these, but only as an outsider because it is
an arcane ritual as old as time and completely closed to men!"

"A mother - daughter bondage session did you say? Now that sounds
interesting, sure I can't join in?"

"Well now you come to mention it!" Mother and daughter looked at
each other and both pulled the blanket down and ran hands down to
the towel which by this time was starting to look more like a
tent. For the first time in his life Dan found two hands on his
cock which did not belong to the same person. The introduction of
a third hand stroking and fondling his balls was almost enough to
make him come on the spot. It was only the fact that he had to
pull Juss up and kiss her to shut her up as she tried to tell
Marie how he liked his cock sucked that broke the climb up that
mountain.

He cradled her in his arm and they looked at each other and
smiled their smile, the one that rule 24 was written expressly
for. They kissed slowly and lovingly and he said:

"I'm sure there is a rule about not critiquing other people's
methodology whilst in a multi-person situation but I don't know
what it is because I've never been here before. I love the way
you suck my cock but right now I'm loving the way your mum .....
OH FUUUCCCCKKKK .... you Irish witch what have you DONNNNE?"

They both looked down to see Marie, with lips and jaw practically
dislocated, face down on his thick cock with her nose buried in
his pubic hair as she took all of his 8 inch cock past the gag
point and was milking it with her throat muscles with a mixed
look of triumph and panic on her face. Dan had never been
deep-throated before and the sensation was incredible but he used
his one free hand to pull Marie's hair so hard that she lifted of
his cock and he continued pulling on her hair until she was back
in the crook of the other arm. He kissed her gently.

"Sorry if I hurt you but we need to sort this out, right here,
right now or it isn't going to work. Here are my rules, these are
my lovers' rules and if we can't all live by them then this
wonderful situation is going to fall apart quicker than a
self-assembly kitchen"

He looked at there uncomprehending faces.

"Yeah, ok, wrong analogy; you don't know about self-assembly
stuff, you have people do it for you." Marie, started to chuckle
loudly and then gulped as it hurt her recently ravaged throat.

"Ok, these are rules ..... alpha and omega ..... call them what
you will. Firstly, erm, alpha  ...." He looked at Juss as he
spoke; "I love the way we have made love so far in our
relationship and I will love the way we will make love in the
future as our relationship develops and we develop as lovers and
learn more about each other's bodies and likes and dislikes.
There is no need to think that we have a monopoly on the right
way to make love and should always be open to learning from
someone else, so long as we are both comfortable with it, and I
stress `both'. As far as I know, making love is not an Olympic
sport and there is no competitive element to it whatsoever. It is
the giving and receiving of pleasure from one person to the other
and not a trial of strength, technique or speed against time,
distance or other people. Do you understand the rule and can you
abide by it?"

She looked at him with wide eyes but nodded. He kissed her and
then turned to Marie.

"Did you understand that rule and can you abide by it?" She also
looked slightly stunned but nodded as well.

"Good, because there is no ... erm ...omega rule" and kissed
Marie deeply and passionately.

"For Christ's sake, never, ever do that again until you are
ready, you will hurt yourself. You're my lover, not some porno
starlet trying to make it big"

"Are we lovers now?"

He looked quickly at Juss with a question in his eye. She smiled
their smile and nodded.

"Yes, we are definitely registered as lovers"

After that, there was no need to talk very much, in a contented
jumble of bodies they fell asleep.