Seducing Your Friends

Taylor slammed the door so hard the walls rattled. Another date, another liar. Martin promised the world until the moment he zipped up and told her he wasn't ready for anything real. She yanked off her shirt, breathing sharp. Cherie was downstairs, on the phone, and she hung up the second she heard the tone of her daughter's voice. "He's a fucking coward," Cherie snapped from the doorway. "Sounded like he ghosted before he even left the car." Taylor wiped her face. "They always do." Cherie studied her. She knew that look: the one that said every man she'd ever met kept the best parts of himself locked behind a wall she couldn't climb. Back when Cherie's own husband bailed, she'd sworn Taylor wouldn't walk the same road twice as long. She shut the bedroom door behind her, and locked it. "You wanna know the real lesson?" she asked, sitting at the edge of the bed. "Boys like Martin need a girl who knows how to make their knees shake before their egos catch up. They stay when you make it impossible for them to walk away." Taylor blinked. Cherie reached for the hem of Taylor's tank top and tugged it upward. No lecture. Just skin. "Lie back." Pants came off next, thumbs hooking inside the waistband until denim hit carpet. Cherie dropped to her knees between spread thighs, breath brushing heat. She traced wet lips with the pad of a finger, then pressed inside, knuckle-deep, twisting until Taylor's hips jumped. When she added her mouth the first sound that tore out of Taylor was raw, honest, too loud for secrets. Cherie pulled back long enough to speak against slick skin. "Now you. Show me what you felt." Taylor's fingers slid down, copying the rhythm Cherie had taught her. Two fingers, slow grind, thumb brushing her own clit exactly the way Cherie had used her tongue. She kept her eyes on Cherie's mouth, watching it glisten, waiting to see what approval or hunger lived there. The lesson finished with a shudder that cracked through Taylor's spine and left her boneless, still shaking. Cherie licked the corner of her lips and smiled like this was all just proof she'd never let her stepdaughter settle for anyone too small to handle her.