EroticReverie

Ten minutes later we're pulling up outside of a nice apartment building.

We both look to the back seats where we find Sophia now fast asleep. 

My eyes shift to Matteo who I catch smiling at them both. 

"Think you can manage to carry Luca while I grab Sophia?" he whispers. 

I nod and he smiles, just staring at me. 

"What?" I laugh slightly as he keeps smiling. 

"thank you for doing this." he says. 

"I owe you one." he says.

I scrunch my nose. "I'm not doing this so you can owe me one, I'm doing this because I wanted to help." I say. 

Matteo leans over and I fucking blush when he kisses my cheek, the scent of his cologne and still smelling slightly like sweat, and it makes me so needy between my thighs, but I squeeze my legs together and just smile at him. 

"Alright" he says with a sigh and opens his door, and both of us get out. 

He lifts Sophia out of her booster seat and holds her on his one side with one arm. Then walks over to me as I lift Luca , holding him with both hands. 

"You got him alright?" he asks as I shift him slightly for a better hold. 

I nod and he smiles and shuts the door quietly and I follow him to the front of the apartment building, and the fact that there's a desk with a security guy as well as a woman at the front desk, puts me at ease. 

"King" The woman says , greeting Matteo. Her attention turned to him from the conversation she was having with the security guy. 

Matteo nods to her and she clearly is under the spell of "King" , because her eyes are watching his muscles in his one arm as he holds Sophia. 

"This is Arabella..Morelli...put her down as an approved guest for me, yea?" he whispers. 

She nods. "I just need your i.d  sweetheart" she says. 

I'm using both arms to hold Luca, so I swivel my hip towards King with my purse hanging off my shoulder. 

"It's in my purse, in my wallet...can you grab it?" I whisper. 

Matteo reaches down flipping it open with one hand and taking out my wallet, then walking over to the counter and putting my wallet down, flipping it open. 

I hear him give a little chuckle and watch as he hands over my license to the girl at the desk. 

I walk over. "What's so funny?" I whisper. 

But I already know what he's laughing at.  Because my license photo is possibly the worst of all time. It's amazing what a few years can do for a girl, because at 16 I had no idea how to do my makeup, or my hair and ....braces. The braces that gleamed with my excited wide smile and bulging eyes when I finally got to take my license photo. 

I narrow my eyes and he shakes his head and looks at me. 

"Nothing" he whispers.

The girl hands him back the i.d and he picks it up and holds it next to my face as if comparing me to the photo. 

"I would slap you if wasn't holding a child" I whisper at him and he chuckles, and slides it back into my wallet, and then my wallet into my purse.

"Arabella will be watching the kids for a bit." he tells the girl. She nods and so does security. 

We walk to the elevator, and I swear this little boy is gaining 5 lbs a minute as I carry him. 

When we get into the elevator, Matteo presses the button for the 20th floor, which is the top, and it opens up into a space that's a mini foyer, but with another door, with a key, and then one other door to the stairwell. 

Matteo unlocks the door and opens it and my eyes widen, because the top floor is apparently, the whole top floor, and it looks like a fancy bachelor pad, and even has a fucking bubble wall. Who needs a bubble wall? I do. I need a fricken bubble wall, and I'm insanely jealous.

"This way" he whispers. 

I follow him through the immaculate apartment and down a little hall and he opens the door, to a small bed room with a little racecar bed. 

"you can lay him down in the bed" he whispers. 

I do, and I'm pleased with myself for doing it gently enough that he doesnt even stir, the kid sleeps like a rock, and even though it's Matteo's nephew he looks a little like him which makes me smile. I pull the covers up over him  and tuck him in. When I stand to turn around, Matteo's not in the room, so I walk out, and find him in another small room to the side, where he's laying down Sophia , tucking her in. I watch him stroke her head as he leans down and kisses her forehead and my fucking heart is in my throat, and my ovaries cry, begging me to appease my biological clock and make a baby asap. 

I watch him tuck her in and then he stands up, turns on a night light then turns around and smiles slightly when he sees me in the doorway. He walks over and I back up into the hall as he turns off Sophia's light and closes the door,  and then he walks into Luca's room and turns on a night light for him before turning off the light and closing his doors too. 

I follow him back out the hall in silence until he lets out a sigh as he pulls out his phone and looks at it. 

"One sec." he says as he answers the phone in a whisper. 

"Yeah.....just put the kids in their beds...I'm going to show Arabella where a few things are, then I'll be on my way................no........" he says and sighs. 

"Not unless you want me to break every bone in your body...............no....we're not.......fuck off....call me if you find her." he says and ends the call. 

"Whose bones are you breaking?" I ask , cocking my brow. 

"My fucking brothers." he says with a groan and walks towards the kitchen area. I laugh slightly as I follow.

"Why?" I ask. 

Matteo licks his lips. "Because." 

I roll my eyes. "Alright....." I say letting it go. 

"So....they have rooms here?" I ask. "Do they stay with Santino alot?" I ask.

He nods. "We all had rooms for them while she was in rehab....we'd take turns taking care of them, not because it's a burden" he adds quickly. "But because we just.." 

I hold up my hand. 

"You don't need to explain it. I don't think you view your niece and nephew as burdens....I don't think you're THAT much of an asshole." I say with a teasing smirk. 

The corner of his mouth lifts. 

"you think i'm an asshole though?" he cocks a brow. 

"Mhm" I tease and nod as I walk towards him. 

He sighs as I get closer, his eyes looking me up and down. 

"Are you sure you don't mind watching them?" he asks. 

"Yes" I say annoyed. 

"I just...I dont know..." he says running a hand through his hair. 

"What? You don't have friends who just do things to help you?" I ask. 

He gives a smile. "Is that what we are...friends?" 

I smile and shrug. "Yea" 

He smiles a little wider.

"I get the friends with benefits package though right?" he says, grabbing my hips and then swiftly lifting me onto his brothers cold, marble top kitchen island. I hiss at the cold stone against the back of my lower thighs. Matteo slips his way between my legs as I hitch them up around his hips, and grab his shirt pulling him into me. 

"We'll see" I say with a little smirk. 

He leans down and I lick my lips, wetting them for the kiss that he plants on me a second later. I slide my hand up over his chest and around his neck as the kiss deepens.

"We're going to be...best...friends" he says as he kisses me with a grin and then lets his tongue slip past my smiling lips, I part them welcoming his tongue, pushing my own back against his. 

His hands are on my face and pushing back into my hair and he grabs it gently and leans my head back , my chin lifting as his tall fucking frame kisses me with an angle easier for him. 

He groans, and his hands slips from my hair and then to my neck, his thumbs resting along my jaw, his thumb slipping down , stroking my throat on the side and he breaks the kiss, leaving me breathless, my eyes fluttering open as my red puffy lips are still pursed and pouted for more. He grins and then gently kisses me again and then nips lightly at my lower lip. 

"Don't you have to.." I start to speak. 

"Yes" he groans and with a frustrated sigh kisses my lips once more before pulling back and looking at me. 

"But I don't fucking want to." he says, his eyes looking up and down over me. 

I smile. "I promise to still be attracted to you when you get back." I give him a little smirk. 

"thanks" he says with a laugh and then chucks my chin and groans. 

"Alright..let me show you where a few things are." he says and pulls me off the counter, scooping and arm under my ass, carrying me on his hip. 

I laugh. "you can put me down" I say.

"You banana. Me gorilla." he says with a smirk. "Remember?" 

I throw my head back with a laugh and wrap my arms around his neck. 

"Yes, I remember you bone head" I say and he laughs. 

I swear I barely pay attention to what Matteo is telling me, because he carries me with the same fucking ease he carried Sophie with. His strong arm around me as I wrap my legs around him, and hold on, his arm giving most of the support.  My panties are soaked, and I secretly hate his sister a little bit too, because I want this man in the worst way right now. 

"The kids should sleep fine" he says when we get to the living area and he sets me down. As much as I tease him for carrying me, and man handling me like a gorilla, I didn't want to be put down. 

"I won't be long...hopefully." he says. 

"If you get tired..there's a guest room next to the kids rooms, across the hall." he says and I nod. 

He hands me his phone. "Put your number in for me." he says and i do. 

"I'll call you, or text you, keep you updated...if you need anything, or...change your mind , or just want to go home, just call. " he says. 

"I'll be just fine. Not changing my mind. Don't worry about the kids, or me. We'll be fine. Just worry about finding your sister." I say. "Take as much time as you need." 

He nods and he's looking at me and he clears his throat. 

"You're a cool chick Bella." he says. 

I laugh. "thanks." 

"No really...not just cause your hot and I'm dying to get you naked." he says with a little laugh. I laugh and push at his chest. 

"Call me if you need anything...number for the front desk is with the others on the fridge." he says. I nod. 

He leans down and he kisses me goodbye like a boyfriend would, not like a guy I just met at a fucking underground fight club who thought he could have me on my knees per his request. Even though, that seemed to be the way things would be ending up. 

After he left, I go to the kitchen, find a mug and search for tea, luckily I find a small box of chamomile and heat the water in the microwave. 

My phone pings with a text. 

It's from an unsaved number.

"Still attracted to me?" is all it says and I smile at my screen.

"Somewhat." I reply.

"It feels highly inappropriate to be on a man hunt for my sister, with my dick this hard." he types back and I laugh. 

"Pervert." I type. 

"Don't text and drive. Call me when you find her. I hope she's okay." sent with a heart emoji.

"Thanks Bella, me too. I'll message you soon." he says. 

I sigh and take my heated mug and throw in a tea bag letting it steep. 

I walk into the living room, manage to work the remote that looks like it's from outerspace and manage even to work it right and pull up the Netflix app. 

After finally picking a movie, I go back and get my tea, and then sit on the couch.

Every 10-15 minutes I receive a text from Matteo, or a call. It's been two hours and they still haven't found her. I assure Matteo I'm fine and to keep looking, and let him know I have no place to be and will stay until they find her. But I also tell him I'm tired, and might rest soon. He thanks me a million times, and I end up falling asleep on the couch with Bridesmaids playing on the tv.