The Masons *Mature Content*

Life After

Brooke

It's been about 5 months since Luca came home, and it's been amazing. He's so awesome. He's met every milestone with excellence and I love seeing him learn new things. Maurice has taken on this fatherly role so well I'm always in disbelief.  "Hey baby." He said walking in with Luca. "Hey my loves." I took Luca away from him and Maurice leaned down kissing me. "I just fed him so he should be out in about 5 minutes." I shook my head as I rocked Luca. He was dozing off quickly. I put him in his crib and he curled up in his swaddle.

Maurice came up behind me peeking down into the crib. "I was thinking we could make one of these." I turned around to face him. We hadn't had sex in about 6 months and I needed it like yesterday.  "I think we're ready again." he said. "Don't play me Reesy." I told him. "I'm not playing you Lyn Lyn." He rubbed his fingers against my cheek. I felt myself blush under his touch. He grabbed my hand and walked me to our bedroom.

As soon as we crossed the threshold he smashed his lips into mine. I ended up against the wall struggling to remove anything that was concealing his finely chiseled abs and tattoos.  I wrapped my arms around his neck tip toeing to reach him properly. He must have gotten tired of me slipping because before I knew it he hoisted me up in the air and wrapped my legs around his waist.  I gasped as he pushed his erect piece into my wet walls. I missed how he felt, his moans, his breathing.

"I love you Reesy." I managed to breathe out. "I love you Lyn Lyn. You feel so good right now." He said as he thrusts grew deeper. I was nearing my climax and so was he when there was loud banging coming from downstairs.  "No they'll go away if we don't answer." "They'll wake Luca if we don't." He said reminding me that we had a sleeping child 2 rooms down. The banging continued and we both covered up as best we could to go see what was so urgent.

I opened the door to a Sheriff officer. I confused as to what was going on. "If you need a minute to cover up I'll give you that." He spoke calmly. I just pulled my robe around me more. "Is everything okay?" I asked. Suddenly concerned with the safety of my living family members why else would this sheriff be here. "Are you Brooklyn Mason?" "Yes I am. What's going on?" "Babe is everything okay?" Maurice asked from behind me. "Is it Byron?" He asked the officer. "Are you Maurice Phillips?" I scrunched up my face. "What is this about?" I asked now upset. 

"I'm here to serve you with papers." "Papers, what papers?" "Seems that your brother in law Liam Dickson filed an injunction against you both stating that you two have unlawful custody of his son. He wants his custody restored." He stated here that you two are unfit and neglectful to the child. I do have orders to check the well being of the child in question so is it okay for me to do that?" "Of course officer, come in. I'll show you to his room." I was so confused. And immediately shut down while Maurice spoke with the officer. I read over the document he handed me, I guess this was my copy.

Maurice and the officer came back down stairs.  "This is a pretty nice set up, and can I say when I pulled up I knew this was a load of crap, but you know I have to do my job." "Its no problem sir. You have to look into every case, you never know." "So I could explain the process a bit more if you guys want." "Yes please, because I'm not sure I understand what's happening." He sat down across from us, "So when your sister created her will in the hospital, it seems she granted temporary custody maybe she felt like she would survive. Unfortunately this state says that  paternal parent have the right to petition for custody." "But he wanted nothing to do with my sister, he was abusive and he left her while she was pregnant. This isn't fair. He hasn't done one thing for Luca since he got here!" I stormed out of the room crying. I couldn't imagine our lives without Luca now that he was here. We promised my sister we would do what was right and I intend to keep my promise.

Maurice

"I'm sorry, is this legal?" I asked I know he just basically said it was but it just didn't make sense to me. I didn't want to lose Luca, or have Brooke stressing a bbn out it. "What can we do? Do we need a lawyer?" I added.  "There will be a hearing to determine if you guys can keep baby Luca or if he will be placed with the state until the case is over." "The state, what about Brooke's parent why can't they take him?" "It has to be determined by the judge." I sighed. This wasn't right at all. "I would suggest getting a lawyer also, custody cases can be tough. You're gonna need all the help you can get." He pulled a card from his pocket.

"You two seem really nice, and I normally don't do this. Call my friend, she's a lawyer for Family Court usually does pro bono cases. Tell her I referred you, my name is Daniel Crawford." "Man, thank you so much I really appreciate it. "Good luck with everything." He said as I walked him to the door. I shook his hand and let him out. I went in the kitchen where Brooke was sitting at the table with her eyes closed. I went over pulling up a chair next to her. " We're gonna fight this babe. He gave me a number to a lawyer we can contact. Luca's going to stay here, okay."

"I knew I hated Liam. Why can't he just go away?" "We don't hate, that only lowers our frequencies.  We have to forgive him or the universe won't work in our favor." I kissed her forehead. "How about we go join Luca for the rest of his nap."  She shook her head yes and we retreated upstairs. The recliner was big enough for the both of us so we both climbed in it.
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"So, do you think we have a chance?" I asked Stephanie. We had explained everything we needed to about the case. She told us since we did sign the birth certificate technically we were legal guardians. "We're gonna fight this. Luca is gonna stay right where he is. The first thing we need to do is gather as much evidence as we can on Liam. Do you have any of your sister's belongings, maybe a cell phone anything that can show Liam's abuse?" "I have her old cell phone." Brooke answered. "That's perfect. I just need you to look through it, see what you find and get it back to me as soon as possible. "

"We want to thank you so much for doing this for us. " she shook our hands and we left. We walked out the office making our way to the car. I put  Luca's carseat in made sure he was strapped in and opened Brooke's door for her. We both got into the car, I let out a sigh that I was holding in. Brooke grabbed my hand kissing it. We both glimpsed at each other silently. Once we returned home we all settled in.

Luca was sleeping and Brooke was on the recliner watching him. She had been on his room since we got back from court. I entered the room with a mug of raspberry tea for her. "Hey, you okay?" She shrugged her shoulders. "I know I'm scared. We've been doing so well with him. I just don't want the courts to make the wrong decision." "They won't we have too much favor. As long as we continue to do what we need to do as his parents, and what we need to do for ourselves everything will be fine." She sighed and shook her head yes. "Is that for me?" She asked reaching for the coffee mug. She stood up and and I handed her the tea. I sat in the recliner and she took a spot on my lap. "I want it to be like this forever." I spoke softly to her kissing her cheek.

I believed we would be like this forever, if we didn't I don't know how we would survive.