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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222; background: white;"Hey guys, I am back from my temporary hiatus! College has been kicking my ass lately so I apologize for all the delays in updates and editing of my stories. As always, I do not own any of these characters only the story. All constructive criticism is accepted, my goal is to write stories for you to enjoy while also receiving good feedback so thank you in advance for all feedback, Love TaurusBabyEE…./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222; background: white;" /spanBlinking my eyes open the bright lights made me regret that instantly. I heard shouting from two distinct voices. When I could push the covers off me I realized I was not home far from it. How did I wind up here, here being in the bed of my husband's (ha, should I call him that) best friend, brother from another mother's bed? Both sets of eyes turned to me. "Why the fuck is my wife in your bed" Ghost said staring at me. Tommy looked at ghost and then me. " she came over last night because I had an episode and was spiraling out of control, once she snapped me out of it I realized how tired she was and that she was in no condition to drive I slept on the couch so she could have the bed" Tommy lied smoothly not a hint of deception showing yet I felt he was lying. Ghost accepted the excuse and looked at both of us again before saying "Tommy we have business to get to." he headed to the door to leave. /p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222; background: white;"Once I gathered my bearings I assured Tommy I was fine and grabbed my keys. See you at home Tash Ghost said. Take a few to wake up just remember to lock the door Tash, there's food and shit in the fridge well leftovers because you cooked them Tommy said. As soon as they left I began racking my brain trying to recall how I wound up here and what happened last night. Slowly it all hit me like a ton of bricks of what happened. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;"br / br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;" / span style="background: white;"span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;"Flashback/spanbr style="mso-special-character: line-break;" / !- [if !supportLineBreakNewLine]-br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" / !-[endif]-/span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222; background: white;"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanI was dressed in a pair of silk pajama pants a white tank top to match no bra, underwear, or makeup in sight. My hair was pulled into a messy bun and I was freezing cold because of the cold temperatures the building set. Knocking in his door I prayed he was lucid enough to answer. /spanI got no response so I knocked again and began looking for the spare key. /emem style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;"br / br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;" / span style="background: white;"span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;"The door swung open and revealed a shirtless tommy in a Gideon pair of black boxer with a damn 50-caliber desert eagle pointed at my face. After a second he lowered it. "What the hell Tash" he said ushering me inside before continuing "I could've shot you what the hell are you doing at 3 in the morning." My steel reserve finally cracked and in a voice completely foreign to me I guess because of how broken it sounded "I uh, I don't" was all that I could say before the rush of tears that I'd held back for months finally came./span/spanbr style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;" / br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;" / span style="background: white;"span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;"He pulled me to him after he placed his gun on the pool table. "It's okay Tash" he muttered. I found out many things about myself. I always stuck to strict things to appease ghost my hair and make up the way I dressed most of the time. I did everything he asked and loved him harder than any other woman could yet I wasn't enough for him. /span/spanbr style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;" / br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;" / span style="background: white;"span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;"Soon after the anger hit me more than anything "why tommy why, am I not beautiful, am I not a good mother, was I a horrible wife, is it because I wasn't as supportive of the idea of him going straight, is it because I was never good enough, was I spot filler for all these years?" I lashed out pushing tommy away from me. "My breast are real not fake I have a damn 4 pack abs after having three children my legs and whole body are toned. Why am I not enough?" I cried out my questions while grabbing each body part mentioned for emphasis. "Tommy why am I not good enough, why doesn't he love me anymore?" was the last thing I sobbed before slumping against him. He stood stoic still just rubbing circles on my back until my body went limp as I heaved and cried. /span/spanbr style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;" / br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;" / span style="background: white;"span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;"Somehow, he managed to get me to sit on his bed and he held me as I cried. It felt like hours before the sobs stopped racking my body but he held me as I cried. Exhaustion hit me finally and as my breathing evened out and I started to sleep he whispered "You were always good enough Tash, ghost or no ghost, you are beautiful and strong and a wonderful mother to your children. Ghost may not see it Tasha but I sure as hell do. Fuck I'm glad your asleep right now it kills me to see how deeply he hurt you... I love you T" was the last thing I heard before sleep kicked in and I was able to get some well needed rest,/span/span/span/em/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222; background: white;"Everything became crystal clear, I came here to clear my head of all the pain I've felt from Ghost's infidelity, to his mistress arresting him, to the death of my baby she told me everything but she didn't tell me about her brother's habits to the lies I've told my kids to protect them, to the pain ghost when he moved out and had the kids over at Angela's house. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;"br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;" / br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;" / span style="background: white;"span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;"No matter what Ghost or no Ghost, Tommy would always have me and the kids back. We are and will always be a family we might be fucked up but we are family regardless. I knew tommy would know what to say or do to comfort me. Me and my kids are lucky to have a man like him in our lives. /span/span/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222; background: white;"Final Authors Note: Hope you enjoyed the story. Sorry if it was kind of short, but thank you for taking your time to read it. Until Next time when I update my other stories which I promise will be soon. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222; background: white;"Hey guys, I am back from my temporary hiatus! College has been kicking my ass lately so I apologize for all the delays in updates and editing of my stories. As always, I do not own any of these characters only the story. All constructive criticism is accepted, my goal is to write stories for you to enjoy while also receiving good feedback so thank you in advance for all feedback, Love TaurusBabyEE…./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222; background: white;" /spanBlinking my eyes open the bright lights made me regret that instantly. I heard shouting from two distinct voices. When I could push the covers off me I realized I was not home far from it. How did I wind up here, here being in the bed of my husband's (ha, should I call him that) best friend, brother from another mother's bed? Both sets of eyes turned to me. "Why the fuck is my wife in your bed" Ghost said staring at me. Tommy looked at ghost and then me. " she came over last night because I had an episode and was spiraling out of control, once she snapped me out of it I realized how tired she was and that she was in no condition to drive I slept on the couch so she could have the bed" Tommy lied smoothly not a hint of deception showing yet I felt he was lying. Ghost accepted the excuse and looked at both of us again before saying "Tommy we have business to get to." he headed to the door to leave. /p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222; background: white;"Once I gathered my bearings I assured Tommy I was fine and grabbed my keys. See you at home Tash Ghost said. Take a few to wake up just remember to lock the door Tash, there's food and shit in the fridge well leftovers because you cooked them Tommy said. As soon as they left I began racking my brain trying to recall how I wound up here and what happened last night. Slowly it all hit me like a ton of bricks of what happened. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;"br / br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;" / span style="background: white;"span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;"Flashback/spanbr style="mso-special-character: line-break;" / !- [if !supportLineBreakNewLine]-br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" / !-[endif]-/span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222; background: white;"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanI was dressed in a pair of silk pajama pants a white tank top to match no bra, underwear, or makeup in sight. My hair was pulled into a messy bun and I was freezing cold because of the cold temperatures the building set. Knocking in his door I prayed he was lucid enough to answer. /spanI got no response so I knocked again and began looking for the spare key. /emem style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;"br / br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;" / span style="background: white;"span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;"The door swung open and revealed a shirtless tommy in a Gideon pair of black boxer with a damn 50-caliber desert eagle pointed at my face. After a second he lowered it. "What the hell Tash" he said ushering me inside before continuing "I could've shot you what the hell are you doing at 3 in the morning." My steel reserve finally cracked and in a voice completely foreign to me I guess because of how broken it sounded "I uh, I don't" was all that I could say before the rush of tears that I'd held back for months finally came./span/spanbr style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;" / br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;" / span style="background: white;"span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;"He pulled me to him after he placed his gun on the pool table. "It's okay Tash" he muttered. I found out many things about myself. I always stuck to strict things to appease ghost my hair and make up the way I dressed most of the time. I did everything he asked and loved him harder than any other woman could yet I wasn't enough for him. /span/spanbr style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;" / br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;" / span style="background: white;"span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;"Soon after the anger hit me more than anything "why tommy why, am I not beautiful, am I not a good mother, was I a horrible wife, is it because I wasn't as supportive of the idea of him going straight, is it because I was never good enough, was I spot filler for all these years?" I lashed out pushing tommy away from me. "My breast are real not fake I have a damn 4 pack abs after having three children my legs and whole body are toned. Why am I not enough?" I cried out my questions while grabbing each body part mentioned for emphasis. "Tommy why am I not good enough, why doesn't he love me anymore?" was the last thing I sobbed before slumping against him. He stood stoic still just rubbing circles on my back until my body went limp as I heaved and cried. /span/spanbr style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;" / br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;" / span style="background: white;"span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;"Somehow, he managed to get me to sit on his bed and he held me as I cried. It felt like hours before the sobs stopped racking my body but he held me as I cried. Exhaustion hit me finally and as my breathing evened out and I started to sleep he whispered "You were always good enough Tash, ghost or no ghost, you are beautiful and strong and a wonderful mother to your children. Ghost may not see it Tasha but I sure as hell do. Fuck I'm glad your asleep right now it kills me to see how deeply he hurt you... I love you T" was the last thing I heard before sleep kicked in and I was able to get some well needed rest,/span/span/span/em/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222; background: white;"Final Authors Note: Hope you enjoyed the story. Sorry if it was kind of short, but thank you for taking your time to read it. Until Next time when I update my other stories which I promise will be soon. /span/p