My name is Ethan. When this story began I had been divorced for 15 years. My daughters were 25 and 28 and lived far away. My ex remarried but I had reached the age of 52 without a new partner. We had shared custody after we divorced, and it had worked well. My girls and I had a good relationship. Their mother was a good parent, but I provided them with something valuable that their mother couldn't. I could listen to their thoughts and feelings respectfully in a nonjudgmental way. When the younger one started sleeping with her boyfriend in ninth grade, she told me but not her mom. So I raised a few considerations (STDs, birth control, fidelity) but made it clear that I trusted her to make her own decisions. When he dumped her she cried on my shoulder, knowing I would never say "I told you so" or try to moralize. She could draw her own conclusions. But my girls had grown up and left. They stayed in touch regularly and visited when they can, but they had their own lives.

I coached soccer when my own girls were growing up. They weren't great soccer players, so I wasn't coaching the best teams, but I found I had a knack for it. I could motivate the girls to improve while having fun, to compete hard but not to get either too proud of winning or too upset about losing. So I had kept up the coaching.

Lindsay caught my attention from the first practice. She stared at me periodically, looked away, and stared again. She seemed sad and confused, then would start smiling or giggling or looking embarrassed for no apparent reason. She didn't quite fit in with the other girls, and a few of them told her she was acting weird.

Lindsay wasn't the most skilled player but she tried hard and she improved. Outside of practice I occasionally noticed her walking down my street, sometimes back and forth within a few minutes. I figured she must live nearby and the route to a friend's house happened to go by mine.

One warm evening after the season was over my neighbor Mrs. Wong who lives behind me called around 8pm to report that someone was lurking in the bushes behind my house. I was naturally alarmed. Mrs. Wong said to wait -- the person had just that instant taken off, and it looked like a young woman. She further explained that she had seen some movement behind my house half an hour before but couldn't see anything more and thought it must be one of those little tricks our senses play on us. But she kept glancing over and saw the same thing twenty minutes later. Then she watched closely and had made out that it was a person just before she called me. So whoever it was had been there at least half an hour. The same thing happened about three days later. Mrs. Wong called reporting somehow behind a tree, but as soon as I answered the young woman took off.

It was four days later that I became aware of some loud talking outside my window. I got up to investigate, and as I reached the front door Mrs. Wong came around the corner with Lindsay, who was looking pale and sick with fear. Mrs. Wong said she had kept her eye out for anything near my house and this time when she saw her she had snuck around the block to the front of my house, gone around the corner from the front and confronted her. She asked me if I knew the girl, and I said I did. Mrs. Wong started a lecture about how it wasn't good for a girl like her to be creeping around at night, and not good to trespass or spy on people. I tried some hints to get Mrs. Wong to leave, but gentle wasn't working. So still trying to be diplomatic, I thanked Mrs. Wong profusely for her concern and looking out for my interests but said that now Lindsay and I needed to talk alone. She left then, though it was clear her curiosity was killing her. (I sent her a thank-you card later that week.) I could tell Lindsay was feeling horrible and whatever she needed it was not a lecture from Mrs. Wong. So I asked Lindsay to come in. She sat on a sofa in the living room, and I took an easy chair.

"So, this is a surprise," I said. "You look like you feel really awful." Lindsay shifted a little in her chair, looking away from me. Then she burst into tears.

"Gosh, whatever it is, I'm sorry!" I said. I got a box of tissues from the next room, and when I came back and put the box within reach of her I sat on the sofa. We have to be careful with touch in this day and age, so I sat a safe foot away but did put my hand on her shoulder blade -- not necessarily so safe, but I personally can't just stifle my reaction of compassion because someone might conceivably take it the wrong way and report me. Just at that moment she said "It's OK, I like your hand there". That was surprising. I wondered if she had a crush on me and was hoping to get close in an inappropriate way. No sooner had I thought it than she said, "My mother does that when I'm upset". It was a slightly odd thing to say, but she relieved my fear.

She stopped crying, and I removed my hand "I know you are so kind and that is so, so wonderful." After some more tears she composed herself. Finally she took a deep breath and looked at me and said, "Think of a number between 1 and 100." I thought of 37. "Thirty-seven," she said. I was amused. "Another one." I thought of 7, then thought that was too easy so I picked 97. She said "ninety-seven, but first you thought of seven but changed your mind because it would be too easy." Now I was truly startled and alarmed. Then she too looked alarmed, and a little panicked, then started crying again.

"You can read my thoughts?" I said, numb and dumbfounded. She nodded. I immediately went through my other thoughts. I felt sorry for Lindsay, remembering how she had acted a little strange when she was on my team. I considered that I felt both exasperated with Mrs. Wong but also thankful to her. I was unhappy with my boss and resented the business trip I would be leaving on the next day. And then -- oh shit -- I was thinking how sexy Lindsay was. She was only 12, but like a lot of girls that age she was sexually mature, with her lovely small breasts and graceful figure, even though she had an average-looking face. Lindsay tried to suppress a smile. It could be coincidence, but it looked like she could read thoughts beyond numbers. Embarrassing ones.

Let me digress briefly. I have always been aware of an attraction to many of the girls I coach, but I don't think much of it. I am a male animal, and they sure look like the kind of animal I would like to mate with. It's a little bit of delicious tension, not anything to be ashamed of. I never dreamed of doing anything inappropriate, and made it a point not to stare or anything. It was just something going on in the back of my mind while I related to the girls as soccer players and young people who for the moment had been entrusted to my care. The trust was justified. But in this new topsy-turvy world Lindsay had forced on me my private reactions weren't private any more. I felt open and vulnerable and that made me scared.

She looked kind of frightened and said "I'm sorry. I can go away. I can't read any of your thoughts when I am like a hundred yards away." But after a pause she started crying again, harder than ever. I couldn't send this girl away as long as she was so upset.

Between sniffles she said "Look, you're a good guy. I know if someone was reading my thoughts they would get all kinds of embarrassing stuff. I think I'd die if anyone could read all my thoughts." After a pause she said "Like, my period is just about over but I'm still wearing a pad. I mean I would never tell you that but if you could read my mind you would know it anyway." I briefly wondered once again if she was getting sexual on me, but an instant later could tell she was just trying to put me at ease. She was right. There was no shame in her having her period, and we both knew that. Social convention was that she shouldn't mention it, and if she did then she was breaking a rule. But if I could read her thoughts then I would know it, but she wouldn't have broken any rule.

She would know I found her sexy because I was desperately trying not to think of how sexy I found her. And then she could tell how flustered I was knowing that she would know that. And how I would never dream of touching her or anything, but since she could read my thoughts it was almost like I was propositioning her. I then realized how she then had all that information too. This was scary and humiliating. My attraction to her was surely like an elephant in the room. On the other hand I had felt more attracted to a couple other girls on her team and she had big rather unattractive ears, so now would that hurt her feelings? On the other hand, I could just see her on my bed, breasts ready to be sucked, panties down and legs spread wide as I got ready to take her virginity. And what would she make of that? Aaarrggh! In the several seconds these thoughts were going through my mind she cried less but looked embarrassed and upset.

She got control of herself and spoke, a little uncertainly. "Yeah, you find me sexy and what's wrong with that? No way is it news to me that I'm not the prettiest girl in the school, or even close, and it's flattering to know that at least one male on earth thinks I'm sexy. And if I know exactly what you might fantasize doing, well, you can't help the thoughts, right?" She tried to suppress a giggle that mixed with the sniffles. "And it's kind of like sex ed for me. I know you would never do anything and I know you would never have told me."

I didn't have to ask her any questions, because she knew what they were.

"No, I can't read anyone else's mind." "Yeah, give me a minute and I'll tell you why I was stalking you like a creep and lurking in your bushes. No, I don't live anywhere near here, and when you saw me walking back and forth it was because I wanted to be close to you. Yes, I bolted the first two times the moment I read your thought that Mrs. Wong had seen someone by your house."

"Yes, it was totally bizarre to go to the first practice and find I could read the coach's thoughts. All the little details of your life. Career, groceries to buy, thinking of how to get us to pay attention. Then how you could be closely watching Jane's kicking technique and offering good suggestions while also aware of how her boobs were so big and her legs so long and sexy."

"But now, why was I stalking you? Here. Listen. I've been depressed for ages. I've been to shrinks, had tests. Been put on a dozen drugs. I'm on two antidepressants now. But they don't do much. They keep me from crying in public and keep me going to school." She paused, shame coming over her face. "And I've slit my wrists and been in the hospital." I could just make out the scar on her wrist.

"But when I read your mind, I also feel your feelings like they are my own. It's like color in a black and white movie. When you feel fairly happy, like you do most of the time, I feel happy too. When you got scared a few minutes ago I felt scared too. When you get embarrassed, I feel embarrassed -- though I would be feeling embarrassed anyway." I wondered if she felt sexual tension when I felt it too. She didn't answer, but gave me the quickest glance, then lowered her gaze again. As clear as any words.

"When you felt really angry with Alison this spring, I felt it too." Yes, Alison had really pissed me off. "When you wanted to bash that ref's skull in I felt that too." I colored a little. Way to go Ethan, model of good sportsmanship, of not taking the game too seriously.

Something came back to me from the spring. I usually had the girls do a weaving drill for five minutes; it was part of the routine. That day I had decided to cut it short to do a different one. And I was thinking it was just about time to tell them to stop when Lindsay stopped the drill and started coming towards me. Then she stopped dead in her tracks and looked confused. I then told the girls it was time for the drill to stop, and she started towards me again. Now it was perfectly clear. She knew I wanted to stop the drill, and she was doing what she knew I wanted, and had forgotten she wasn't supposed to know that so she should wait until I actually said it. I realized then it was hard for her to act only on what she got through "normal" senses, sorting it out. She smiled at me as I had these thoughts, then said "Yes, you got it."

I reflected. She had just finished seventh grade -- a time when self esteem is just so rock solid (cough). She was having a very difficult conversation with a grown man, first trusting him to believe in mind-reading, which all clear-thinking people knew was impossible. She was fending off sexual thoughts and feelings whizzing around. It had to be excruciating. Why was she going through it? A chance of feeling a little better, some escape from depression, the kind that makes you slit your wrists. I felt a surge of compassion. She caught her breath, acting almost strangled for a moment -- oh right, she felt the surge too. So it might be worth the confusion to her, worth lurking behind my bushes even though she had aroused suspicion twice before and must know she might get caught. I wondered if she maybe was hoping to get caught. At that point she spoke.

"No, I didn't want to get caught!" Then, following my line of thought, she said "Well yeah, maybe some part of me wanted to." This means of communication was very fast. I could quickly go through a line of thought and she would correct me if I was wrong. But -- she could have thoughts and share just the ones she felt like sharing. She was in a position of power over me. She knew my mind but I didn't know hers.

"Yeah, I know. What can I do?" Tell me all your secrets, I thought.

"Maybe," she said. And she started staring into my eyes, until the instant I realized it was making me uncomfortable, so she shifted in her seat and looked down.

My life would be a whole lot simpler if she would simply disappear and never come back. But she was a severely depressed child, and I held promise of a life that had some joy in it. I had been depressed too, before the divorce, and thought of that endless crush of cold and gray, where nothing holds any joy and it never will again. She looked at me, startled.

"You know!" she said. And after a moment, as I relived what it had been like, she said "I don't know if I should say this, but you didn't get it as bad as I do." God! This poor girl! She made that strangled sound again.

So, suppose I agreed to find some way she could see color in life through my mind. How would it actually work? She could spend time close to me, and if I was happy, she would be happy. I had the amusing image of making a little cot for her in the garage so she could lie there and soak up my positive thoughts. The idea of any arrangement where she would be reading my thoughts and I would be getting no feedback was totally creepy. But if she was with me in person, she would know every time I found her sexy, and because of that I would try not to think about it, and then I would find I could think of nothing else. And my sexual frustration would grow. She would feel that, and she would no longer feel happy but sexually frustrated too.

But then one possibility jumped into focus. We could have sex, and I would feel great pleasure, and she therefore would too. And she would know all the things I fantasized about doing, and we could do all of them, or at least most of them. As this line of thought came over me she was looking away but I could see her trying to control her rapid breathing. But I would feel terribly guilty being her lover, guilty what it would do to her, and I would be mightily afraid that we would get caught, or she would grow up and realize that I had been raping her for years and was a horrible person, maybe send me to jail for life.

"No! You're so nice I'd never hurt you!" she said. But she didn't say anything when I considered that it is very hard for people finishing seventh grade to know how they will feel years later. My pain at being caught and shamed and facing prison would cut her like a knife, I could see that -- but only if she was within 100 yards. I stopped myself. The entire idea of being sexual with her was absurd.

If we found a way to keep things chaste, there was the small matter of explaining to her parents and the rest of the world what she was doing carrying on a friendship with an older man.

I also realized that from the moment she had first found herself reading my thoughts she knew she couldn't tell her parents or shrinks or they would lock her up. And if I told people they would lock me up too, or at least dismiss me as wacky. And if we proved this mind-reading to everyone, the CIA would whisk us away and we would become a state secret. This dilemma was now another thing we shared.

A lot of this came down to her parents, to what kind of people they were. What would they do if Lindsay and I demonstrated that she could read my mind? It would be easy enough. Send Lindsay outside, tell me some numbers, then have her come back in, pick them up from my mind and say them. Would they believe it? I looked at Lindsay.

She considered a moment, "I think so." They too would realize that telling anyone else about this would lead to big trouble. What would they think about a friendship with me? "I know they love me a lot. They spend lots of money on treatments for me, and they worry. One thing that makes it worse for me is that when I don't get better, I know it hurts them so much too. I'm letting them down." I tried to stifle my next surge of compassion, but she caught her breath anyway.

So if they got on board and believed that a friendship with me was good for their daughter, what then? She could come over to my place a lot, but people would get very suspicious. I could come to their place, but what would that be like, the four of us?

I stopped for a moment and two pieces of the puzzle fused together. I was willing to consider some sort of arrangement to help Lindsay be happy instead of horribly depressed. If she hadn't been able to read my mind, something could have been worked out. We could be like big brother and little sister. Kindly uncle and niece in need of guidance. I would be aware of my attraction but just not think about it. But she could read my mind. Every time a sexual fantasy popped into my mind she would know it too. I could not stand trying not to think about sex, failing, being sexually frustrated -- and the humiliation of having her know I had the hots for her. It was all or nothing for me. We either had to be lovers or nothing. Statutory rape, big time. A little wave of nausea came over me, and Lindsay stirred. The time had come for me to shake her hand, wish her luck, and say I just could not help her.

But I couldn't keep thinking about the other side. Would she even consider the sex part? She wasn't getting up to shake my hand and leave either. She wasn't bringing up ways we could make it work on the uncle/niece model. I wondered if she found me attractive. She didn't say anything for a moment, even though she knew I had formulated the question.

"You're attractive enough," she said. That sounded like damning with faint praise. But then I was an old guy, and girls don't go for old guys. Unless they are wise, kind and good, especially if they are figures of authority like soccer coaches. She was suppressing a smile again. She paused again, and I thought about what she would be feeling. If she did find me quite sexy and said so, wouldn't the sexual tension in the room be almost unbearable? Maybe it was better not to know too much. She then spoke, and I was instantly surprised why I hadn't thought of this. "All that matters is how sexy you find me." Whatever her own independent mind and body thought, they were crippled with depression. The happiness would come from what I felt.

Blushing a little and looking down she said "It felt really, really, really good the other night when you jerked off." I had a huge flush of embarrassment, which in turn flushed across her face. Yeah, I had jerked off one of those evenings. So was that a possible way out? She could eavesdrop on my feelings while I jerked off a lot -- that was a crime too. But that wasn't her point. My sexual pleasure was a huge draw for her. Even if I could manage a platonic parental relationship, it would be terribly hard for her to keep from trying to seduce me. She didn't speak to correct that line of thought.

She hadn't gotten up to leave, so in comparing bone-crushing depression to regular sex with an old guy, the sex wasn't losing. She smiled at me uncertainly. "It would have been way, way easier if you were a woman, or gay or something." She had a point there. She wasn't seeking me out for the sex, it's just that the sex came along in the same package given who I was and how my animal self viewed her.

Lindsay was feeling a whole lot better than she had been when flushed out of the bushes by Mrs. Wong. She had told someone her big secret and he had believed her and been nice about it. And there was hope that she might really have a happy future. We both had a great deal to think about, and I needed to be thinking about my part with Lindsay more than 100 yards away. She needed to get home. So after just a little hesitation we got ready to give each other a goodbye hug. She blushed, smiled, and decided to say out loud what I had thought, what she knew, and what I knew she knew: "A nice hug, even though what you really feel like doing is fucking my brains out." We both smiled and were then laughing hysterically. As we calmed down she beamed at me and I beamed back at her. Whatever had made me think she had an average face? We had our hug, kept short and strictly ceremonial. At one powerful level, she obviously wanted me to fuck her brains out too.

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Her parents found that the news set their world spinning, just as mine had been a few days earlier. Lindsay's had started spinning when she came to her first soccer practice. They had me over to dinner and her mother had cooked a luscious thick steak. The taste of Lindsay's steak in her own mouth would be soured by depression. But feeling me taste it, she gave a radiant smile, something her parents had never seen cross her face before. They were willing to think about it. We all took the summer to think about it.

Lindsay and I met periodically to get to know each other, and it naturally went very fast when she could read all my thoughts. When she read intimate thoughts of mine she tried to say something similarly intimate about herself. She had been mean to a little girl down the street. She had first gotten her period during school and was sent to the nurse's office with blood running down her leg. She had a crush on her math teacher. Boys and girls at school both made fun of her. She was terrified of butterflies.

Our life experiences were totally different. I had already raised two children and had a long professional career. I wouldn't be able to discuss art or politics or science with her -- at least not for a long time. But I had had all that meeting-of-the-minds stuff in my marriage, and it had all come to nothing when the feelings turned to ice. Lindsay would love me and that was enough. I was attracted to women of a wide variety of ages, and had viewed the teenagers as attractive but of course unavailable. Now that one of them was available, I realized that I found her sexier than any mature woman. She read all these considerations from my mind and was OK with them. I felt her vulnerability from her youth and depression, and felt strongly protective. She was also sweet, kind, and brave. I loved her.

We had one moment of truth when she first introduced me to her parents. I couldn't hide my first impression of her mother: she was fat and ugly. Lindsay felt hurt and angry at me because she loved her mother and it was mean of me to think that. But she slowly realized that my gut reactions in this regard were no easier to control than any others. The crucial thing was that I respected and even liked her mother and thought we would get along great. If she looked at her mother with a fresh eye, a man's eye, maybe she would look fat and ugly.

I centered myself by considering that I really didn't have any evil or truly shameful thoughts. There was nothing in my mind that would make Lindsay doubt my character. She would be exposed to my dirty underwear, to the garbage I set out on the street, and even to what I flushed down the toilet, but she wouldn't find any guns or dead bodies.

Her parents had an agonizing dilemma. Their daughter had already slit her wrists once, and they were afraid she would do it again -- especially afraid if they nixed this new possibility which was so exciting for her. But to approve of this relationship with an older man went against all of their gut instincts for protecting their child. The three of us met without Lindsay. I reminded them that they couldn't tell me anything in confidence because Lindsay would quickly find it in my mind. But their purpose was simple, really. Would I love and honor their girl, or was I in it for the sex? Lindsay had this intimate knowledge of my thoughts, but they felt she lacked the life experience to be confident that what she found meant what she thought it did. Could I look them steadily in the eye and tell me I had Lindsay's best interests at heart? I could and did.

The logistics weren't too hard. Her parents bought a two-family house at the end of a long driveway, in a wooded area with no neighbors to snoop on us. I rented the other half from them. Lindsay would officially live with her parents and stay there if one of my daughters came to visit, for instance. And even if it were an extended visit, she could stay fairly happy reading my thoughts through the wall. But otherwise she would live with me. All four of us signed statements and made videos describing how we knew we were proposing statutory rape but felt it was justified by the circumstances. They were tucked away in my lawyer's safe, to be kept sealed unless I needed them for a legal (and moral) defense. Both of us had STD tests that came up negative. She started on the pill.

We decided to have our own wedding, non-binding in the eyes of the law, of course. It was a week after her 13th birthday. Girls do get married at that age in some cultures. No one knew for sure where Lindsay would go in the future, crucially whether her mind reading would continue or stop. But then the divorce rate is high anyway, and the fact that we both meant our vows at the time was enough. In a very direct way it looked like it would break her heart to leave me.

I waited by the fireplace in her parents' living room. When Lindsay emerged from the bedroom she had on a stunning white dress and veil. We were liberated enough that not just her father but her mother too walked her down the hallway and gave her away.

Lindsay and I would have our honeymoon in my half of the house --we certainly couldn't travel anywhere as a couple. We would have to suppress all affection in public and even so be subject to suspicion. After some light refreshments, her parents left for a week-long trip. The walls between the two halves of the house were thick, but maybe not thick enough.

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Lindsay and I went out the front door of her parents' place and crossed six feet of porch to the door to ours. I carried her over the threshold, set her down, and shut the door behind me. I took one look at her and felt a surge of lust go through me, and it instantly went through her too. I threw off my shoes and pulled down my pants and underpants. She lay in the center of the living room sofa, pulling her wedding dress up just a little and spreading her legs wide. I approached her and lifted the dress up all the way, and as she had no panties on it exposed her perfect, young private parts. I lowered myself and pressed against her labia. She used her fingers to open them a little. I pressed hard and my tip went in. We both gasped. I drew back and urgently pressed four more times until I was in her all the way, and with one more giant thrust I was overwhelmed with pleasure as I spurted into her. At my orgasm she screamed out her pleasure as my pleasure echoed in her. Less than two minutes had passed since I had shut the door.

We retired to our bedroom, put away our good clothes and proceeded to strip. It was the first time I had seen her naked, and her body was more perfect than I thought possible, and she beamed as I thought that. I ran my hands all over her as we stood on the carpet. We took a shower together and soaped all over each other, as I delighted in getting to know her. She was in awe of my body too. She slipped out of the bathroom and into bed as I finished drying myself. When I came into the bedroom she was in bed with the covers up to her neck. I slid in beside her and felt her warm soft body. But I also saw her beautiful face, and we had our first half hour of kissing, which was wonderfully sweet. Then I turned over onto her and as I did she had positioned the tip of my penis at her vaginal opening. I slid in smoothly. As she explained later, she was always lubricated in time because the arousal I felt from looking at her or even thinking about sex transferred directly to her own arousal. Now with perfectly clean bodies in perfectly clean sheets, I slid delicately in and out of my darling Lindsay in missionary position for a long time, enlivened by more kissing. After maybe thirty minutes I in quiet ecstasy pumped her full of more semen. She didn't scream this time but my orgasm was hers and she gave me a hug and then cried for a while, tears of joy.

Lindsay and I fell asleep with me spooned behind her. It was amazing. Her innocent perfect body was mine. Not long into the night a small movement she made woke me up, as I was not accustomed to anyone sharing my bed. I was momentarily surprised before remembering she was with me, then I felt so happy to have her, and then I was overwhelmed by her sexy presence, how her naked rear was right there. I was putting it out of my mind to go back to sleep, but instead I felt her back arch and her sexy rear push out towards me provocatively. My penis rose to full hardness, and the instant it did, Lindsay's small hand was guiding it into her vagina. I pushed in, full of gratitude, love, and lust. I prepared to keep a slow pace, to reach my hand around to massage her clitoral area, but she whispered "Doing what YOU want is what makes me happy." So I reflected that a few quick and deep thrusts were what I most wanted, and hugged by her perfect silky tight vagina again, I found myself straining, pushing, intruding, and I came again. She gave a loud moan. I pulled out and thought about fighting sleepiness to stay close to her, talking maybe, but then realized what she would say. If I felt like drifting off to sleep, that's what she wanted too.

In the morning she went to pee, and I thought about how much I'd love to see her pee up close. Once she was set on the toilet she motioned me over, and with her legs far apart I got to watch as her stream spouted out of nowhere, it seemed. She smiled. I fantasized about her bent over the sink in the bathroom, taking her from the rear. Within seconds she had gotten up from the toilet and bent over the sink, butt up in the air. I took in the sight of her butt with the labia gracefully positioned below her anus. As I watched she swayed her butt back and forth alluringly. Had I thought that? I wasn't sure.

"No," she said, looking over her shoulder. "That was my idea," and she grinned impishly. In any case, I wanted to have her right then, so I spread the labia wide, pressed in and pounded away hard and deep for a good long while. This didn't feel quite so sweet and loving -- it felt animal and kind of mean. The idea of rape even passed through my head.

"Rape me!" she said. I was briefly ashamed, then I went with it. I felt the pleasure building luxuriously, approached the edge, then drew back a number of times, until I reached the point of no return and I spurted once more up in her vagina with a roar, and she screamed. It was good her parents were away.

The next day she rode me on the bed, engulfing me as I lay on my back. Later she took me in her mouth, and with instant feedback the pleasure was incredible, though she realized I didn't want to come in her mouth, so she stopped in time and presented her vagina instead. After breakfast I saw her bending over putting something back in the refrigerator, and she instantly adjusted to my fantasy. She turned around, back against the fridge, with one leg tilted up, knee on the counter. I slid my penis into her luscious vagina once more and took her, the fridge rocking back and forth a little with each stroke.

I wondered what would happen if I fantasized about something that would really hurt her. Could I fantasize about her slitting her wrist? I was instantly ashamed because I knew she had done just that. And then I knew that it was a natural free association and she would know that. She stopped what she was doing and said she could tell the difference between just thinking about something and actually wanting it. I made her promise that she would never follow any of my thoughts if they hurt her. She might misread my signals. We talked about fleeting unkind angry thoughts. She then mentioned that the sex from the rear in the bathroom actually had hurt her a fair amount because I was going in so deep. The pleasure she had gotten from my enjoyment had predominated, but she had also been aware from her own depressed body that it was painful. I told her that in the long run I was going to be unhappy if I found I had been hurting her body, and she understood and accepted that.

We did it several times a day for our little honeymoon. Whenever I fantasized about something she did it. And I couldn't feel too guilty, because she wasn't doing these things to make me happy, really, she was doing them to make herself happy.

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The honeymoon ended, of course. Lindsay had to go back to school, and I had to go back to work. She did OK psychologically in school. She usually had that oppressive cold and gray experience, made worse because it contrasted to what she felt around me, and on the other hand so much easier to bear because it would end in a few hours. I tried helping her with her homework. One rule I knew from my days as a parent was that you aren't supposed to give the kid the answer, you're supposed to help them figure it out. But of course once I figured out the answer then she knew it too, so that took a little adjustment. She was an OK student, but far from brilliant. I couldn't help thinking sometimes that she was being kind of dense. She knew it instantly, of course, but we got through it. She knew she wasn't brilliant.

She took to spending the afternoons over at her parents' house, mostly to visit and so her mother could help her with homework. Every now and then she would giggle or burst out laughing or start crying. She was picking up some thought of mine. I found I was sometimes thinking thoughts I knew she would pick up because she was across the wall, within range. I could tell her a joke by just thinking it. Her mother reported it was disconcerting, but it was worth it to see her daughter giggling and laughing. I often came over for dinner with the four of us. In preparation, Lindsay was constantly telling her mother what she should cook, things she knew I liked or was fantasizing about that day, and her mother did, but only up to a point.

I reconfigured my job. I used to have a fair amount of out-of-town travel and commuted into the city at least three days a week, but at that point in my career I didn't enjoy it. So I took to only telecommuting and did most of it while Lindsay was off at school, though this adjustment understandably required a pay cut. Lindsay's happiness rested on having me around most of the time. Her parents were quite well off and willing to make up any pay difference if I could help her out more.

A few lucky men over the centuries have had women meeting their every need and every whim, but none had it as good as I did. For one thing, I didn't have to ask for things, I just had to think of them. And whereas men typically suppress their fantasies that they are ashamed of, Lindsay knew that she was going to know every last one. Some she might not be able to do or they would have hurt her physically, but most others she did. She had no sense of shame and never felt her dignity was in danger. She knew that I respected her, even if some of my fantasies looked from the outside looked degrading. And the biggest thing was that she wasn't catering to my whims for some external reward such as money or my approval. The pleasure she gave me was its own reward because she felt it too.

She didn't read my mind when she was truly asleep, though some of my dreams made their way into hers. But if she was awake she could read my dreams, and many a time I awoke to her soft voice whispering "It's OK, it's only a dream" as she hugged me with her perfect and soft body, lifting me out of some anxiety or fear or terror. It was yet another reason I came to love her with all my heart.

She didn't have to restrict herself to my fantasies either. If she thought of something and I liked it, she would get pleasure from that too. Once in the night I had an erection while having an erotic dream and she thought it might please me mightily to wake me up with her engulfing my penis, but it actually was no good because I was in the paralysis that accompanies dreams and waking at those times is unpleasant.

She took to going around the house naked for the most part, or wearing just frilly bras and/or alluring skirts. I went around naked too. She catered to needs I wasn't aware of. She started rubbing my back as I sat working, and then I realized my shoulder was a little sore. She put my sweater on before I realized I was cold. Pulled the shade when the light was getting in my eyes. She even slid her fingers over mine on the keyboard and closed the windows with the annoying ads and moved the cursor off of the movie I was watching.

We have different levels of attention, and even when we are not focusing on something we are still experiencing it. If I was at my computer absorbed in a novel or a political article or a matter from my profession, that didn't interest her so much. But she often sat on the floor in front of me, very gently working my penis in her mouth or hand. If I stopped and focused on it I realized it was very pleasant, but mostly I was absorbed in my reading. Lindsay focused on the mild sexual pleasure. She was masturbating, in a sense, getting pleasure from my body that her depression kept her from getting from her own.

The Saturday after our first week back in the normal routine I woke up slowly and was a little disappointed to find Lindsay wasn't in bed with me. But just a minute or two later she appeared with a tray of breakfast. She knew I needed to go pee but didn't really want to get out of bed, so she got a little bottle and slid my penis into it so I could pee without getting up. She trotted off to flush it away, then came back and presented me with my tray. A perfect omelette. Fresh biscuits, home-made strawberry jam and whipped cream. I had some of the fresh-squeezed orange juice and the fresh-brewed coffee. She sat beside me on the bed and used a fork to give me my first mouthful of omelette. It was very sweet of her, but I preferred to feed myself omelette, which she knew instantly. However, she picked up my fantasy and spread lavish amounts of strawberry jam all around one nipple and whipped cream around the other and then leaned in close to me, so I just turned my head to lick them off of her perfect breasts, alternating that with bites of the biscuits. Without my saying a word she spread her legs a little, took my left hand and placed it between her legs as I stuck my middle finger up her vagina just to rest it there, to know it was waiting for me whenever I wanted it. The meal was delicious. And the instant I was done she took the tray away. She raced back smiling, breasts bouncing a little, and landed in front of me on the bed. After a few tender kisses, she settled over my pelvic area with her head and went to work. Her hair tenderly fell over the area, and with her hands she was stroking my hips, inner thighs, and testicles, ever so gently. Her mouth was around my penis, giving a fabulous mix of sliding in and out, tongue swirling and flicks around my tip as my penis grew hard. The pleasure was amazing. But just as she knew I wanted, she shifted around and rolled onto her back, rolling me on top of her in the same motion. She guided me inside her. Within a minute I delivered my seed inside her yet once more, awash in my orgasm and her echo of it.

She did homework while I surfed the web for a couple hours.

As I sat reading the paper after our simple lunch she came to feed me chocolate fondue with fruit, putting each piece in my mouth just when I was ready for it. I licked a little of the fondue from her breasts.

There was a football game I wanted to watch. Lindsay didn't understand the game much, but when I felt tense and excited she felt it too. I sprawled in the armchair. My penis wasn't ready for sex again, but that didn't keep her from indulging me -- or was it herself? -- by kneeling between my legs and gently working my limp penis with her mouth, which felt heavenly. When it did get hard again, she impaled herself on me facing me, preserving my line of sight to the TV. I held her in my arms while she slowly pulled her pelvis up and down, just enough to be exciting without moving towards orgasm. After my team had tied the score after being down two touchdowns Lindsay flipped over and presented her rear end. I took her from the rear, a feeling of triumph and raw male power mixing with the sex itself. Lindsay loved it.

We went over to her parents' place for dinner. Her mother had prepared a lovely pork roast and a half dozen vegetables, each cooked and seasoned in a different way she had gotten from online gourmet recipes. Lindsay ate the same things I did, and as often happened her mother was just delighted to see Lindsay really enjoying the food she cooked. She was actually enjoying my enjoyment of the food, which her mother dimly knew, but since Lindsay was eating the same things at the same time the illusion was compelling, and it was good enough. Her mother was also pleased that I liked her cooking, but I was not her own precious daughter.

We were having sex at any time of the day or night, but we also did it right before falling asleep, probably the most common time people have sex. As we were sprawled in the afterglow that night, she got reflective.

"I never dreamed that a man could desire a girl so much." I smiled and gave her a squeeze. "And I had no idea my body could make you so happy, over and over and over again." I gave her another squeeze. And then she sprawled crossways on the bed and brought her face pretty close so she was looking at my entire pelvic region, her hands gently touching all over the area, hefting testicles, swirling pubic hair, and examining and touching my slick and limp penis, not to arouse but just to study.

"It's just such amazing stuff", she said, looking on in awe and wonder. "It feels so much pleasure". I felt amused and proud -- proud down at the level of a little boy delighted at how far he can piss. She looked at me and giggled, and I shrugged and smiled.

She turned the light out on the way to snuggling against me normally again, and we drifted off towards sleep. I thought about how much and how deeply I loved her, and how I wanted her by me always. She lifted her head, looked at me a long moment and then initiated the tiniest, softest, most delicate kiss imaginable, then put her head back down against my shoulder. She was asleep within a minute.

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