EroticReverie

Ariella

The world does not deserve a man as understanding as Asher Stone. I feel like a fool for my reaction to the sight of Cade's tattoo in the process of being removed. It makes sense and I'm not mad or sad about it because I think he should keep it. I'm just sad because I feel guilty and it was just a shock to see without warning. 

My tears are dried and Asher and West have finished bringing the new mattress up to his room, and taking the old one down and storing it in the storage in the basement. Eventually, if we're staying in the house a bit longer and living there, we want to turn my room into where we actually stay. But again, we've decided it still holds too much of the past in it. We wanted to redo the room, make it our space, not my old space where I had him and his brothers with me. But we'd work on that soon, for now, the mattress was in Asher's room, taking up a bit more space that the previous one, but still fitting decently in his room. 

"Get your asses down here!" I hear Reed call, Asher laughing as I straighten and whip my head towards the sound of his voice coming through the door from downstairs. 

Asher follows me out and I stop at the stairs, my heart swelling as I stare down at Reed. 

"I said get your asses down here!" he says with a smile on his face and his finger pointing to the floor in front of him. I beam at him. Much like West, Reed seemed good. Seemed happy, seemed okay. 

I book it down the stairs and Reed is laughing and I throw myself into him, arms up and wrapped around his neck as I crash into his body and his arms scoop me up off the floor into a growling bear hug. 

"There she is" he growls at me as he hugs me tighter and I keep my arms around him tight, burying my face into his neck. 

My relationship with Reed had probably been the most confusing for me at certain points. Because we'd become lovers like I had with the rest. But unlike Cade, West or Asher, Reed has also become a father figure at the same time. I was friends and lovers with the others. Reed was my lover, and also at the same time, a father to not just his sons, but to me as well.

His scent fills me and my mind flashes to memories of Winter, and shamefully my body reacts to remembering the first time with Reed, the times in between, and the last. It'd be hard to forget the intimate times with any of them. I didn't crave for more of it, I didnt want or need more of what happened in Winter, but I refused to regret it either. 

He finally sets me back on my feet but I don't let go. I missed him. I missed him so fucking much and didnt even realize how much as I refuse to let go of him. 

"hey" he says when he hears me to start to cry. God, how did I have any tears left today? 

"None of that , won't be having any of that" Reed says and peels me from him and grabs my face smiling at me. 

"Glad you're back sweetheart" he says and places a kiss on my forehead. 

"I missed you" I say choking on my embarrassing sobs as Asher rubs my back and then steals his father to pull him in for a hug.

"Missed you too" Reed say to me as I let him hug Asher. "Missed both of ya" he says and claps his hand on Ashers back and hugs him tight and I laugh as I cry when Reed pulls me back in , hugging us both. 

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When I'm done shedding tears and we're done hugging the fuck out of each other Reed has us sit with him in the living room.

Again, like West, I don't see hurt or longing still in his eyes , he seems genuinely happy , and happy for me and Asher. 

He doesnt ask what we did while up at the cabin, because...pretty sure they all knew the only for us to do up there. But Reed did ask how we did, if we had brought enough food, if it got too cold, if he needed to make an renovations to it to be more habitable next winter if any of us went up there. 

He tells us that he watched my Sons of Anarchy DVD set twice in a row and I laugh. 

"Never knew Peggy Buddy was the mother in that show. She's still fine as ever." he says shaking his head making me and Asher laugh. 

"yeah she is." Asher agrees and I nudge him playfully and he laughs, wrapping his arm over my shoulder and tugging me into him and I scrunch my nose at him making him smile at me. 

"You two look good. Look happy." he says and we both look at him.  I nod.

"We are." Asher says. "Happiest I've ever been." he says and I look to him adoringly and smile and he looks back down at me.

"Not sure yet if it's cause of her or just being away from West for two months though." he teases making his father laugh.

"Yeah, that fucker ....we could all use a vacation from him couldnt we?" he jokes.

"so you're both staying here right? Not thinkin bout movin out and getting a white picket fence and yippy little dog?" he asks and I turn my head.

"do...do You want us to move out?" I ask. 

Reed's brows pinch. "not really...but i figured id prepare myself for it, thinkin you two got used to having alone time." Reed says. 

"Actually..." Asher says and I turn my head and he looks at me giving a guilty little look. My brows pinch.

"Danny's roomate moved out...he texted me while we were out shopping...said he needed to find a new one." Asher bites his lip. 

"Obviously we have to talk about it." he says to his father but he's still looking at me.

"I think it'd be good for us though. Not just...us....but all of us." Asher says, meaning the family, for Reed, West and Cade too. 

I nod once."yeah, we can...we can talk about it."

"Well I think that's a good idea, you'll be close to us still, can come visit whenever you want, vice versa" Reed says and I look to him and smile.

"Well, i'll leave you two to talk about the picket fence life , I'm gonna go start dinner." he says. "Dont go anywhere, cause i expect you both to eat dinner with us tonight." he says sternly as he stands and I smile and nod. 

"Of course." I say and Asher nods in agreement.

Reed walks over. 

"Good to see you two happy, let's keep it that way yeah?" Reed says and we nod and he leans down, palming the back of my head and placing a kiss to the top of it.

"love you sweetheart" he says. Then he brushes a hand over Asher's hair. "You too punk" he says making me laugh. 

"Love you too dad" he says and pushes his hand away from his hair making Reed chuckle. 

I turn to Asher and look at him.

"Yes." I say and his brows pinch. 

"Yes what?" he asks lifting a hand , stroking my hair behind my ears. 

"Yes to being Danny's roomates." I say and his eyes pop, brows lifting and he laughs.

"We havent even talked about it ye-"

I shake my head. "We dont need to....you obviously want to...and you're right...it would be good...it'd allow us to still be....here." I say waving a hand around at the house. "But not...living here....I want to do it."

He laughs slightly. "you're sure? a hundred percent?" he asks as I keep nodding my head.

"He's got a girl now, I think she lives there too, dont you want to meet her first?" Asher asks and I shrug.

"Sure...but....if she's cool...then we do it...right? We move in? " I ask. 

He laughs. "yeah princess, whatever you want" 

I smile and lean over, grabbing the back of his neck, pushing up and kissing him.

The cabin was too small, too remote and secluded for either of us to want to stay there much longer. So moving back here into the house was the only option. We'd considered apartments, but didnt want to spend a fortune on a small ass apartment that cost the same as payments on a house. Danny already living in a house, splitting the payments would be so much easier. And living in this house....as much as I missed the other three, as much as I still wanted us to be a family....there was too much history made here those winter months, too many things triggering me already in the single day I've been back. 

"We'll go into town, see if he has time to hang out after dinner then?" Asher asks and I nod with a big smile. 

"yeah, yes" I say and crash my mouth to his again.

"I love you so much" I tell him. and he laughs. 

"I love you too" he says.

"I cant wait to spend the rest of my life with you" I tell him and he pulls me into his lap them, grabbing my face and kissing me harder.

"dont rush it baby, i want this life to go by as slow as fucking possible with you" Asher says, and kisses me again.