Desperation (Closed)

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Rachel flopped back into the worn leather recliner with a smile, eyes shuddering in relaxation. Her blonde hair was curled up into a messy bun today, more ease than any true styling decision, and she thought back to the busy day she’d had. Starting bright and early, Rachel had woken with the sun and puttered around in the kitchen while her son, Grant, readied himself to leave the house for the day. When he had, she’d gone shopping and bought some necessities for around the house and had cleaned the living room, bathroom, den and her bedroom. The kitchen was already immaculate, and honestly not much needed to be done with the other rooms either — Grant liked his home spotless. Because she was living with him and taking up his private space, it was the least she could do.

They were both mature adults, her son a man of 27 now, and her an aging woman of 43. She’d tried to keep herself young at heart, but the years had not been kind to her. Only seven years into her marriage, when Grant was 15, her husband had decided that he couldn’t be bothered with either of them. He’d been a womanizing son of a gun before she’d tied him down and none of that had really changed, though she was already well aware how stupid she’d been to think otherwise.

He was particular, too. Things needed to be just so for Hunter Kane, and Rachel had never really fit that bill. Towards the end when he was never home, too busy burying his cock in anything wet, Rachel worked hard to ensure her son never felt the distance.

She failed at that, too, and as her marriage fell apart she stared down the barrel into the judge’s eyes who declared her son legally emancipated.

Rachel lost everything within the span of about five months — she recalled vividly the day Grant stood across the island and calmly told her that he wouldn’t deal with this bullshit anymore - that she was too weak, and that “the prick” walked all over her because she allowed him to, and that he wasn’t going to let that happen to him, too, so good fucking riddance.

There had been other words exchanged (in anger - horrified retaliation borne from emotional overload), but that was the last real conversation she’d had with her son in years.

Sure, he had called over holidays, for a while, but that changed, too, until they tapered to a stop completely. It was like they were strangers. The men that had once ruled every corner of her life felt as though she was dead to them, so for all intents and purposes, she was.

Alone, betrayed, broken, Rachel had done the only thing she could think of doing to bury her sorrows. She’d turned to alcohol, and it had never left her side when she needed it most. She’d been in an out of rehab over the last few years, racking up debt and spending more and more of her money in alcohol sales. She was at the bottom of wit's end, unable to keep a job, savings fizzling out when she first saw it on the newsstand outside the building where she’d just been let go from; Grant featured on the cover of a magazine, headline declaring just how well his latest book was doing (a best-seller, she knew, from subtly rolling the burn of the whiskey she’d poured generously into her morning coffee around in her mouth as she read the article).

He’s doing well for himself, then she’d thought bitterly, placing the magazine back on the shelf. Glad someone is.

She’d put it out of her mind again, forcing herself to return to the default mindset where she told herself that her son and ex-husband were dead, and not leaving her behind to eat their dirt like she was nobody. She’d tried to provide for Grant the best she could, but Hunter was a tightass on a good day and didn’t believe in giving her more than she’d earned. He’d also taken almost everything from her in the divorce settlement, and left her strapped to pay off the mortgage for the house he had no interest in. She figured that’s because he’d refinanced it only months prior to the divorce, taking out a second mortgage to pay off some gambling debts that he’d accrued. Even through their marriage, Rachel had practically been a single parent and Grant had suffered for it.

With that mounting plus the fact that the insurance company was riding her ass to settle an accident claim after she’d lost control of her vehicle and wrapped it around a stranger’s tree a while back (the incident that told her it was time for AA and another bite at the rehab apple), Rachel was hurting for funds.

A few months after she’d seen his picture in the magazine, she’d reached out to her son for the first time in years. He was stand-offish, but accepted that his mother was in a bind. The mortgage company had agreed that she could take only a moderate hit if she allowed the house to go into foreclosure and declared bankruptcy), and she needed a place to go while that all happened. It’s how she’d gotten here, actually.

Things were strained between them, and although Rachel had been desperate for a place to go, hindsight was 20/20.

The media recognized her son as the golden boy of literature at the moment, an eligible bachelor and most certainly climbing into the ranks of fame and fortune, slowly but surely. He was sweet and kind and could do no wrong.

Rachel wanted to scoff.

They didn’t know shit about Grant.

He’d grown into just as much of a dick as his father had been, angry if things didn’t go exactly the way he wanted. They’d been fighting, and even though she’d only been here a few weeks, and Rachel wasn’t sure why she thought it might be any different. Neither of them had grown out of the animosity that had existed in the home the day he’d left her there, and she didn’t see that changing any time soon.

At least she could prove herself to anyone who questioned why she had such a difficult time with him; the cameras she’d placed around the home, no bigger than the end of a pencil eraser, would see everything. It would show the world that he wasn’t who he made himself out to be. Rachel would finally have evidence that she was a victim to tyrants, and maybe it would end the cycle of abuse. Although her son had never laid his hands on her, the comments he made towards her blistered something hot and ugly in her chest and made her feel sick. She wouldn’t put up with it anymore.

Grant was the problem; never Rachel. She knew she had bad taste in men, that much was clear, but to have given birth to someone with such a bad attitude? His childhood hadn’t been as shitty as he made it out to be. Nothing was her fault. She wasn’t a bad mom.

Just a drunk one, he’d discover when he made it home around supper.

For all of her early productivity, she’d decided to watch television with her good friend Jack and she’d fallen asleep in the recliner shortly after six, fingers still clenched tightly around the neck of the bottle where she’d been drinking it straight.
 
She stared up at him blearily, mind working bard to understand what was going on. She could hear the words he was saying but it took her a few extra seconds to process exactly what they meant. Tilting her head, her eyes tracked the silk material as he dropped it in her lap.

She scrambled to push herself out of the chair, but he was standing so close she really had nowhere to go; when she stood she was in his personal bubble and she practically tripped over the chair trying to move away from it.

“I’m sorry Grant. I’m sorry — I fell asleep. Fuck, I’ll make something quick. I spent the day cleaning and time got away from me,” she babbled.

But there was no going back - he could see the bottle of booze in her hand just as plain as day, and Rachel knew that it would be impossible for her to talk her way out of this one without getting drug over the coals.

She was halfway to the kitchen when his cold, hard voice stopped her in her tracks, her entire body tensing and frozen solid as she whirled slowly, never once losing the grip on the bottle.
 
She turned slowly, moving back towards the recliner and grasping for the tie. She didn’t want to get to close to Grant, seeking time keep away from his temper, but it already seemed too late. Her small hand rose to hold out the tie for him, eyes lowered instinctively in what one might call a submissive gesture. It didn’t seem practical that her son was the boss, but... His house, his rules.

Her hand shook, itching for the bottle. If she could just have one more swallow... she might have enough courage.

She said nothing, well aware that anything she tried to say would probably incite him, sounding more like an excuse than anything else.

She cast her eyes away to the floor when she realized that he was stripping right there in front her, even if it was only his dresshirt; she’d seen him without a shirt plenty when he was a teen, but nothing since he’d left the home to start fresh. She knew that he worked out in his spare time, and the defining curve of muscle over his pectorals was cut finely, filling out his shirts impeccably. Still, even though it didn’t violate any rules, she felt like seeing him this way was wrong - the whipcrack of tension in the air made this feel more like something intimate, nothing calm and easy, and everything that didn’t belong.

They weren’t poolside. It wasn’t hot in here. There was no need for him to be stripping off his clothes in the living room like a neanderthal with his mother present right in front of him.

He was just demonstrating that this was his house and she was nothing more than a nobody in his eyes (the firm way his eyes never wavered as he watched his mother bow her head and curl in on herself said it all).

Steeling herself, Rachel straightened up.

She padded quickly across the floor to the kitchen and practically flung open the fridge door, breaking the moment as she busied herself in finding something she could fix. There were beef cubes; she could always make some kind of stir fry.
 
She whipped around as though she'd been struck, glower evident on her face. She wanted to spit back at him, but she knew that would only exacerbate the cycle. She would not let him think he was succeeding at baiting her so easily.

She shrugged, but the urge was so great.

"It is what it is," she said finally. "I worked this ass off all day and maybe you weren't around for that part, so I don't expect you to realize. I'm allowed to watch television," Rachel retorted. "And I'm a grown-ass woman who can drink if I want to after your fucking house is spotless, so don't give me that shit."

And then Rachel did what she was wont to do any other time he tried picking fights: she ignored him, beginning to prep dinner. Keeping herself focused on one task was almost enough to help her forget that he was looming over her from the doorframe, intense dark eyes never breaking from her back as she moved around the kitchen. This was something she was good at -- Rachel had always been a good cook, and that was the only thing Grant had never had the ability to complain about.

Still, his stare made the hair on the back of her neck rise, always fully aware that the enemy could drive the knife so deep she'd never be able to pull it out. He was her son, yes, but he might as well be a stranger to her, the way they acted. For all intents and purposes, he was; living together for a two week period had not eliminated any of the distance that more than ten years of being apart had left in its wake.

He was her blood, but he was a stranger, too.

She was always wary of him and what he was capable of.
 
She finished washing the veggies before she turned to face him with an eyeroll.

"I don't know what you're going on about now, but it sounds ridiculous. Do you even hear yourself?"

She kept goading him - intent on the camera catching every single word. Soon he'd snap, she knew. Then he wouldn't be able to talk himself out of trouble with the evidence in live video feed.

Fuck, but she really wanted to pour herself a glass of whiskey and tune him out entirely.

It wasn't that easy, though.

Despite that knowledge, Rachel turned back to the countertop and began to fry up the beef. It didn't take long to cook fully, those small cubes she had prepared one day prior, and it kept her mind off of the fact that she could feel every minuscule movement of him behind her as he stalked closer like a jungle cat - quiet but intimidating. Definitely dangerous.

Alarms were blaring in her head to get the fuck out of there, but she wasn't stupid. The second she tried to flee from the tense situation in the kitchen was when he would strike. It helped that Rachel was stubborn, and with a firm roll of her shoulders, she remained fixated on dinner, steadfastly ignoring Grant.
 
If her hackles hadn’t been on high alert before, they certainly were now.

Her eyebrows furrowed, heart seeming to slow against her rib cage at the unexpected contact, turning her face just a millimetre for her eyes to catch on the sharp, defined lines of his jaw and those thick eyelashes just barely brushing his cheeks in what she thought was the most vulnerable she’d seen him in a while - he didn’t often drop his gaze from the “enemy” he’d seemingly proclaimed her to be.

She swallowed, breath coming out in a hesitant gasp of careful words.

“I’m sorry, Grant. I’ll try... try to better,” Rachel finally said meekly. “I didn’t mean to fall asleep. I’m sorry, baby.”

She said no more, taking in the enormity of her son compared to her smaller frame. She was short, curvier in nature, but still nothing compared to her son who was quite tall and kept his body in perfect shape between new manuscripts or book signings. His body practically dwarfed her, curling around her so easily as if he could just drag her underneath the water and never let her up to breathe. It would be so easy for him.

The frying pan sizzled in reminder that she had other priorities, and Rachel managed to gently shoulder herself out of his arms in order to prevent dinner from burning. The moment broke, but he never stepped away, and she worked for the next minute or so to plate their meals and ensure the burner was off, always conscious of the heat radiating against her back through their clothing.

When she turned back to face him with her hands full, her expression was open and more hopeful than it had been in a while at her son’s sudden softened demeanor.

“Are you ready to eat, Grant? Why don’t you go sit down. I’ll set the table quickly and then after dinner you can relax a bit. You’ve been so busy, lately.”
 
Rachel swallowed again, reaching blindly behind her for the cutlery drawer.

Her hands were shaking when she finally grasped a fork, spearing a piece of the tender beef and holding it up to him.

Rachel wasn’t his fucking servant, but this Grant was preferable to one that was screaming at her, beating her down verbally. She didn’t know this side of him, hell, she didn’t really know him well at all, and that did make her wary. Still, the quiet seemed more comforting than anything else right now, and she’d take it.

She watched him chew and swallow anxiously, waiting for his decision.

She knew it was good - she was a heck of a good cook and they both knew it. That wasn’t the question here; the question was whether or not Grant was looking for a fight, or if he’d be generous and give her a pass. She really wasn’t looking for any kind of altercation tonight.
 
That simple statement felt like a slap in the face. It was measured, calm, but searching. She couldn’t help but think she was being set up to fail.

“I don’t think I deserve anything,” she said quietly. “It’s something a mother should do for her son, especially if he’s opened his home to her. But do I want one?”

Her eyes met his, not wavering anymore.

“You know that I do.”

Her confession spoke volumes, but Grant wasn’t dumb enough to be blind to the fact that his mother was a functioning alcoholic. She hadn’t really even tried to hide it. That was simply her reality.

Rachel rounded the table and sat down across from him, flush rising in her neck briefly as the treacherous thoughts rose again in her mind: Grant was attractive in all the best ways. The trouble with that? He fucking knew it, too.

The way her green eyes traced his body when he thought she wasn’t looking were absolutely sinful - nothing a mother should be doing at all, but even if his personality was rotten, his physique certainly was not. She couldn’t help herself. She was still a hot-blooded woman with eyes.
 
Her mouth parted in a silent expression of her shock.

The smalltalk had been nice; it was a sweet view into the life he’d been leading without her, and it felt like they had the chance to be a family again.

Well, until he dropped that bomb, strong fingers hooked around the shot glass, tempting her.

The suggestion was absurd! It was impossible. There was no way he could be serious about that. Not only was it crazy, but it was immoral!

His face demonstrated just how serious he was, though.

Rachel’s hand shook, setting the fork down before she dropped it onto the plate with a clatter.

“Grant... what... what on earth...”

She was speechless, struggling for the words.

... she did want that drink, though.
 
Rachel sat there for the longest time as she replayed the events in her head until they were practically burned inside her memory.

***

He was definitely serious. He said it so casually, as if this was normal. As if he expected to find his mother waiting for him at the door, shirtless. She hadn’t raised him to think that wanting his mother partially nude was an expected finding; she’d never tried to imprint anything like that at all upon him, but somehow he’d gotten that impression.

Grant spoke about it as easily as discussing the weather.

Maybe ten minutes later, Rachel pushes her chair back and slowly and methodically began to clean up before joining him in the living room.

Her mouth was bone dry when she crossed the threshold to the living room and saw him sitting on the couch with his knees spread, bottle on the floor between his feet. If she had been asked, Rachel would have attributed her dry mouth to her thirst.

For whiskey.

Definitely not for Grant. Not at all.
 
If you wish. Those words had condemned any hope that this wasn’t a perverted request. He said it as though she didn’t really have a choice. It wasn’t so much the way it was phrased - that seemed innocent enough, like she may have some input there - but the tone of it. It was heavy, firm, and no hint that she might get away with refusing him.

With shaking fingers playing at the hem of her shirt, Rachel pondered just what to do.

Grant’s body was relaxed now, but she envisioned him sprinting off this couch and slamming her face into the wall if she didn’t comply. He had the ability, certainly, even if he’d never done such a thing in his life (had he?). He’d never hit her, but sometimes she thought that thunderous expression must mean that he was imagining it.

It felt like there was some safety in leaving her bra on, though, so with an anxious tug, Rachel pulled her shirt up over her head.

Her breasts were voluptuous; she had a pretty big rack, always had, and she’d been always conscious of keeping them tightly bound and held high to prevent them from sagging as much as she could. Her shirt revealed her salmon coloured bra, a clasp in the front nestled between her tits.

Her eyes were closed, afraid to see his reaction.

Although she was fully aware of the reality of this, something told her that seeing hunger in her son’s eyes (or disgust, even) might change everything irreparably.

She couldn’t look, so she dropped her gaze again to the floor between his legs, but there was no hiding the impressive swelling she could see disappearing down his left leg from his groin. She’d suspected that her son had a large cock for years, what with the way he treated people (a prick was her primary designation for both her ex-husband and their son) and the way he carried himself, but to see his erection firming in his pants... for her...

It changed things.

She gulped.
 
No.

No way.

The gears in her head ground to a halt at that, mental wall slamming down. She could push everything else off as a sick desire to fuck with her, but there was clear intent in his actions, now. She couldn’t attribute it to a moment of madness on her part, because it was impossible to miscalculate exactly what he meant by the gesture.

He may be talking about the bottle of booze, but to get it meant to be get up close and personal with her son. The premise was unclear, but not the physicality. Rachel’s eyes narrowed dangerously.

She turned her back on him, wondering simultaneously if it was a mistake — she couldn’t risk him kicking her out, after all; she had nowhere else to go. Would he kick her out if she didn’t oblige? Rachel wouldn’t play his games.

“No,” she replied staunchly. “I don’t believe so. I’m feeling more like a bath than booze,” Rachel shrugged, heading towards the stairs. She continued to hug her shirt close to her chest as she did so.

Her body was nothing to be ashamed of. Even though she drank (a lot), Rachel was still functional. She tried to keep herself in good shape, because she was aging and she was lonely. Nobody wanted a washed up old bag, after all.
 
How dare he talk to her that way?! She was his mother. She didn’t need the place to stay that badly that she had to engage in such a pathetic show of subservience, and she had no interest in splaying his twisted little sex games.

But she was smart enough to know that he might hurt her if she didn’t comply.

With a deep sigh, Rachel reversed her course.

She paused at the edge of the coffee table, wanting desperately to back out of this, but her bank account screamed out in a grating reminder that she needed Grant’s money.

With a defeated thud, Rachel dropped to her knees between his, the cold glass whiskey bottle brushing her bare abdomen.

She kept her eyes averted, no desire to see her son’s cock at all. She also didn’t want to see the victory in his eyes, either.
 
Rachel gasped, forced in close to breath the same air as him, mouths close enough to touch if he just bowed his head only a few inches.

"Grant," she said, unsure of what she could say now. It really did seem like there was nothing she could do to reverse this. Grant had made up his mind.

Rachel said nothing, one hand braced on her son's strongly muscled thigh to prevent her from tumbling headfirst into his body.

She didn't want to say anything else because if she made some agreement about her breasts it would only encourage him and she didn't want to do that. She also did not want to argue with him because that might piss him off even more.
 
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