Thanks to Shawhollow and Steve for editing and Talonwolf for tons of stuff

*The greater the fear in the depths, the greater the joy when we come out the other side*

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It felt too early to be six am but it had been a tough night. It was still grey outside; the rose colored pattern of dawn hadn't displaced it yet. I padded my way to my room where Heidi and Natalie were supposedly sleeping. Instead I heard hushed voices and even a giggle. Apparently the two youngest members of the family were up and talking.

"Excuse me," I said in a stern voice as I stepped in the room. "What's going on here and why aren't you two getting ready for breakfast?"

"Seriously?" Natalie pushed herself up on her elbows and looked at me.

"I apologize," Heidi went to a kneeling position, her head lowered with her long white hair masking her features. Patience was what I felt was needed.

"Natalie, we all eat breakfast and dinner together," I explained. "Heidi, get the paddles." Heidi slunk away quietly, still haunted by the episode at the fetish shop. The thing was, she was having fun with Natalie, I could tell it. She came back and gave me Natalie's and her paddles.

"Assume the position," I commanded. Natalie stared at me again as Heidi braced her hands against the bed and presented her ass.

Mentally I projected a scream at Heidi 'You are the top, act like it!' but I had to hold back. It must have been telepathy because suddenly Heidi took in the upcoming conflict.

"Natalie," Heidi whispered, "If you don't assume my position, Joshua has to beat me twice as hard because I'm responsible for you." Not that I think she would have minded a few more paddle blows, Heidi was doing her job.

Natalie blinked twice then scrambled to set herself beside Heidi.

"I'm sorry," she murmured. I paddled Heidi's thigh first then landed a restrained blow on Natalie's right buttocks. It caused far more surprise than pain but Natalie was just learning and beatings were part of the physical chemistry of our kind of relationships.

Heidi got three more blows but I was quickly learning were I could light her up without too much pain. Natalie got one more to her left butt cheek and I caught her whispering to Heidi that this wasn't so bad.

"You ladies are in charge of the beverages -- orange juice, Mom's protein shake, and coffee of course," I explained. "Get moving."

"Aren't we getting dressed?" Natalie whispered.

"No -- we get dressed after servicing Joshua and our morning showers," Heidi softly replied.

"I don't want my Mother to see me this way," Natalie hissed.

"Don't -- don't worry Natalie...I'll -- I'll protect you," Heidi stumbled through the words. "It is what I do," she hesitated to add. "I'm top and Joshua trusts me to keep the peace so leave Sienna to me."

"But Mom is so much bigger," Natalie persisted. Heidi turned and shook Natalie.

"This is what I do, Natalie," Heidi sounded rather desperate. "Joshua trusts me to look after both of you so that's what I do. Trust me, Natalie. Please trust me to look after you."

"It's okay," Natalie took Heidi by the shoulders. "I trust Joshua and if he trusts you then I should trust you too."

They continued downstairs and out of hearing range. By the time I made my way to the stove and started up the seafood omelets, Mom had joined us as well.

"Someone needs to get the paper," Mom yawned. She was trying to stay nonchalant but I knew that she wanted to see Natalie do it.

"I'll get it," Heidi looked up from her fresh-squeezed orange juice duties.

"Bottom gets the paper," I pointed out. Everyone looked to Natalie who would have to go 'outside' in her bodice in the neighborhood she'd grown up in.

"Please Joshua," was Heidi's simple plea. No reasons, just pleas.

"You and Natalie can go together," I allowed. Technically that would allow Natalie to hide in the doorway. The two women headed off quietly but came back with giggles.

"Mrs. McMurdo saw me," Natalie laughed. "I don't think she noticed it was me but still -- it was thrilling."

"You two do realize you could have put on robes or coats -- right?" I stated imperiously.

"Oh pooh," Natalie pouted while Heidi giggled some more, "that ruins all the fun." The girls returned to the juices and the coffee while I dished out the two omelets -- Natalie's and Mom's.

I let the last to simmer for a moment and pulled Heidi into the hallway.

"I'm proud of you," I told her softly as I wrapped her up in my arms. "Now go to my desk. In the top drawer/left side you will find four items -- bring two to me in the kitchen." She nodded and head off and came back looking a bit surprised. I put the breakfast to the appropriate plates then took the items in question.

"Heidi, put these on the other ladies and I'll put the last set on you," I directed her to use the nipple clips.

"Joshua, what are these for?" Sienna questioned.

"I'm experimenting," I replied. "I want to know what works for you and what doesn't. I know what my padded handcuffs and blindfold are for, if that's your worry," I added with a hungry stare.

"No Joshua," Mom smirked. "I know what I hope they are for." Natalie's eyes went from the nipple clamps, Mom and finally me in utter confusion. Heidi walked around the table and hugged her from behind as Natalie remained seated.

"Our life is not likely to get boring anytime soon," Heidi breathed into her ear.

"Are we going to have a safe word?" Natalie inquired.

"Mother fucker works for me," Mom snickered.

"My favorite one was Marmalade -- but that couple gagged me a lot," Heidi recalled.

"When we get to that level, I'll assign safe words," I laid down the law.

"I really like Mother fucker," Mom muttered. She was going to pay for that bit of insurrection but I'll catch her after my morning 'workout'.

"I really liked Marmalade," Heidi whispered. She should have known better but she was off her game so I was leaning toward something lenient.

"Streptococcus," Natalie joined the rebellion. Seeing my punishing glare, she added, "Well, it is not likely to be something I would just scream out for no good reason."

I could gracefully win most of my family fights but not this one. I chose the moral high ground of ignoring their 'suggestions' and ate my breakfast. I retired to my office and my morning mail call while Heidi and Natalie approached me still dressed in hose (Heidi) and corset (Natalie). Heidi knelt beside me and bowed her head.

"I apologize Joshua," Heidi sounded almost piteous.

"I will deal with you later," I said with as little emotion as possible. She looked so sad.

"What did she do wrong?" Natalie interrupted.

"Joshua told us we would have safe words when the time came," Heidi explained. "It is okay to joke but when Joshua makes a call, that's it."

"I will take care of you, I'll meet your needs and you trust me to provide for you," I stated evenly. "Normally I won't explain myself and you will find ways to let your thoughts be known to me that are suitable to the situation."

"Oh," Natalie mulled it over then a few seconds later she knelt too. "I apologize Joshua, I didn't mean to mess things up."

This was new to all of us and instincts could only take me so far -- when to be firm and when to be forgiving. Natalie was muddling her way along with the added complication of a Mother, fresh out of prison, and a stranger she had nothing in common with in her ancestral home.

"I'm busy right now but I'll make sure you both pay later when I have more time," I decided.

I wanted Natalie to go to the hospital on her day off and work on Heidi's identity and set up a medical appointment to make sure she was okay. Natalie was also going to be on the lookout for anyone else looking for her. I was going to sneak in on Heidi at work during her lunch break and have her make it up to me. Right now, there was a blowjob Heidi was going to administer or she'd be pouty the rest of the morning. What Natalie would make of that I wasn't sure.

The chore was simple enough; Heidi performed fellatio on me until I ejaculated. The game was to see how fantastic a blowjob her tongue lips and teeth could do to make me cum before I wanted to -- there was a little extra 'punishment' for that. Now I was sitting perpendicular to my desk and had both women kneeling in front of me. I went back to composing a letter to Seoul.

Heidi pulled down my shorts then picked up my cock and tentatively licked the tip. Natalie gasped because this was the first time she'd seen me naked since I was twelve and she was eight. Watching Heidi expertly take to her task must have been new as well. I was doing my best to pretend nothing special was going on when a slightly thicker hand cupped my balls and rubbed up my shaft as Heidi's lips worked their way down.

This tandem work kept going only a minute or two longer. Natalie kept stroking me but instead of doing her own mouth work on my rod, opted to kiss Heidi on her cheeks and temple until Heidi received her reward and I groaned in release.

"You were slower today than yesterday," I informed Heidi who nodded once, stood, turned around then bent over and grabbed her ankles in one fluid gymnastic move.

I picked up the paddle and began massaging Heidi's backside that was almost back to it's normal pale pink color. 'Pop!' was followed by an "Eeep!' as a blow fell on her lower thigh. I returned to my gentle massaging strokes once more, moving in small circles. Two more spanks came in rapid succession and Heidi strummed in anticipation.

"Now," I interrupted her pleasure, "you need to get ready for work," Heidi. I handed her paddle back and could tell she felt -- deprived until she saw the look in my eyes. Oh, I was going to get her but I was going to leave her in anticipation of what she was going to get. She turned and, if not skipping off, moved with some of that old Heidi spring in her step.

"Do I get -- I'm not sure how this goes Joshua," Natalie stuttered.

"Ask me whatever you want. Our relationship is based on trust, not me acting capriciously," I explained.

"Am I going to get punished?" Natalie asked.

"Come here and lay across my lap," I instructed. Hesitation and anticipation warred with one another as she took agonizingly slow steps to my side then bent over my lap. I took up her paddle and began doing what I'd done to Heidi but instead of spanking her I rubbed the handle from her tailbone to between her ass cheeks and finally probing her pussy.

I returned to trailing the paddle along her posterior but I always returned to her cunt, probing and inserting the handle up to an inch. She began to sweat and wiggle, trying to keep more of the intrusion in her. When little whimpers began escaping her lips, I stood her up and bent her over the edge of my desk (the back had shelves). I laid my semi-rigid cock at the top of her butt then slowly let it ride down.

As I passed her pussy, I thrust forward but its elasticity stopped me from penetrating. Three more passes and I sat down. A moment later Natalie looked over her shoulder, her eyes filled with want.

"I'm not denying you sex as a punishment, Natalie," I enlightened her.

"I'm going to sex up the other two ladies of the house so I can last a long time with you tonight," I added. "In the future things may be different but I'm not going to hold things against you that you could not know."

"I trust you and I think I'm beginning to know what that really means," she nodded.

"Well, here is what I want you to do today," I started off. I explained to her what I wanted done for Heidi and she laid out my possible options and we worked something out. The 'transition' from Sub to Doctor caught her off-guard because she has prejudicial feelings about a Sub being a low-confidence, weak-willed individual not a bright successful doctor such as herself -- but here she was.

"May I kiss you," Natalie finished up, "and can I call you Brother from time to time?"

"Of course," I smiled. "It is what we are." Natalie smiled, kissed me then turned and made it to the door before looking over her shoulder. "It is like I can breathe, free of worry or remorse, Joshua. This great weight has been lifted from my shoulders and handed to you. Thank you."

"You are welcome -- and one more thing," I stood as she turned to leave. My right hand fell on her shoulder and stopped her from turning around. My left slid down her mid-back, between her ass cheeks until I finally inserted my forefinger into her slightly moist pussy. I made a few in and out moves until her fluids became evident and her breathing picked up a pace.

"Now I want you to masturbate while you get dressed and come down to me to show me what a good job you've done -- but you can't climax or your punishment will be much worse," I detailed to her. Fifteen minutes later she returned to me, flushed and breathing deeply as she presented her hands to me. They smelled of her sex, alright.

"Why have you stopped?" I stated.

"I can cum now?" she inquired with some relief.

"I didn't say that. Get back to it and don't you dare cum," I related as I went to her side. "You don't have to do it when you can clearly be seen, but otherwise, keep at it until you get back home and talk with me."

I lifted her skirt to see her underwear. I knelt and took a whiff, just to be sure. She hadn't cum, but her emerald green French-cut undergarments looked delicious on her. I stepped up and gave her a spank. Natalie didn't seem to know what to do with herself but before she left she put a hand into her skirt's pocket and began rubbing away at her crotch.

(Lunch with Heidi)

I caught Heidi getting ready to head out for a quick lunch. A variety emotions warred within her eyes before she gave over to acceptance.

"I've missed you," I said but I forced it out in an even angry way. A few seconds later she shuffled over to me and into my arms, which I folded around her.

"Mmmm, I've missed you," I repeated in a softer tone. "No lunch for you it seems." Heidi looked up, terribly relieved. I opened up my left arm so she could sweep past me, lock the door and put up the 'Closed' sign. She breezed back past me and I followed, cupping and fondling her ass. I chased her into the office but grabbed her by the arms from behind before she could bend over.

"Remove your skirt and panties, my slut," I breathed into her ear. Heidi speedily wiggled out of her silky mid-thigh length skirt then pulled her deep blue-red panties down to the knees before letting them fall the rest of the way down. I was happy her bottom was now a pale pink and not an angry red. She was totally available to being spanked once more.

"Joshua," Heidi whispered.

"Yes," I reached around, cupped her breasts and pulled her tightly to me.

"I like the sound of your name..." Heidi murmured.

"You will call me Joshua or refer to me as your lover," I clarified. "Say it."

"You are my lover, Joshua," she said a note louder and with more enthusiasm. I moved my hand from her left breast around to the back of her shoulders. With my right I maneuvered her hand down to her pussy. Heidi immediate starting stimulating herself. I pushed her down, face first on the table.

"Do you know what I'm going to do to you?" I taunted her as I opened my zipper and pulled out my manhood. Heidi shook her head but it was a tiny bit of a return to the playful girl I knew. She was going to town on her cunt, rubbing the labia and sticking a finger inside. I felt this as I rubbed my cock along her fingers, getting it moist for the penetration.

I meant to stick it to her ass as a surprise, but I was the one who was surprised -- my Glans defeated her sphincter easily and slid inside.

"You lubed yourself up," I said, somewhat indignantly. Heidi looked over her shoulder fearfully but nodded.

I pivoted my hip and slipped a few inches deep into her rectum.

"Have you been playing with this," I spanked her, "This ass which is mine to plunder?" Heidi met my gaze fearfully and shook her head.

"So you were planning for me to come here and rape this ass, is that what you were saying?" Heidi took a moment then confirmed with a nod.

I forcefully drove the rest of my cock into her. Heidi's breath caught then came out in several labored breaths.

"What's going on here then?" I growled.

"I don't want you to ever get bored with me," she pleaded. Oh shit...

"Reach up, unbutton your shirt, and pull your breasts outside your bra," I snapped. She did so rapidly and I noticed one hand slipping back to her cunt. Now it was my turn; I pulled Heidi up by the shoulders as I pounded her ass savagely. Then, moments later, I took over the fondling of her breasts and pulling on her nipples.

"This pity-party is over Heidi. We are going forward," I grumbled. "I can't have you doubting me so if you do -- leave because I don't want you anymore," I was hopefully testing her. "If we both come, your mine and we will never have this discussion again. Now move your ass!"

Heidi took off like a madwoman. She rocketed up on her toes then slammed down all the while twisting her rectal muscles around my cock.

For my part, I bit into her shoulder and suckled on her flesh while my hands tormented her breasts. I fondled her breasts firmly, nibbled her ear and slammed her buttock while her flesh rebounded in waves. Still, I couldn't stop my seed from flooding her in strong spurts of sexual release.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Heidi squealed as she felt the warmth boil inside her. Seconds later her whole body trembled in climax; tremors working her over for nearly a minute. I let her fall forward onto her desk, exhausted but happy. She muttered something.

"What was that?" I inquired as I examined her buttocks for what was to come next.

"My butt hurts," she giggled.

"Not yet, but it will," I mused in a dominant tone. I hauled off and spanked her right cheek followed quickly by a backhand to the left. I kept repeating this for five strokes. When I finished I stroked her ass appreciatively. "Mine."

"I apologize Joshua," she sighed happily, "I belong to you and I was wrong to ever doubt it." Now I could risk a little play with my top.

"What? Did you seriously doubt me? Am I going to have to own this ass again?" I gave her backside a gentle swat.

"I've been very naughty," Heidi answered while looking over her shoulder. She gyrated her hips as an enticement but I was having none of that now with the time constraints we lived with.

"Think about what that's going to cost you when you get home," I chastised her. Heidi pushed up and spun to face me, crushing herself against my chest.

"I'll work really hard on not being mopey, Joshua," she said before kissing my chest several times lightly. "I'll take care of Sienna and Natalie and think of a hundred ways to make me your bitch each and every day." She looked absolutely inspired. Gasoline -- fire.

"See that you do," I dictated before dressing, kissing her one last time and leaving.

(Moments with Mom)

The first thing I heard when I walked into my entryway from the street was a different woman's voice dropping off as the door shut.

"Demona and I are back in the kitchen," Mom called out. Demona was a junior member of Mom's old prison gang. I walked back with only minimal caution to meet our guest.

Demona was clearly defensive but Mom was showing a totally 'at ease' vibe meaning she and Demona were getting along.

"Hey Demona," I came up, leaned across the table and shook her hand.

"Hey Joshua," she found a smile creasing her face. "I'm not packing."

"I didn't think Mom would have you in here if you were 'D'," I assured her. "Is there anything I need to be aware of, you two, or can I get to work?" Basically, I didn't care that Mom was contacting her old gang-mates. What I had issue with was Mom being caught with known felons and with people bringing firearms into my house -- both parole violations.

Otherwise Sienna could do what she wanted as long as she was unaware of what I had in store for her when Demona left. I was looking over the preliminary specifications of the Manila job and making notations when Demona stopped by my office.

"Hey Josh," she greeted me again. "I just want you to know that we -- the gang -- wanted to feel out Sienna before things got worse and I think things are going to be okay."

"Thanks Demona," I responded. "I don't want Mom going back to prison -- that is my major concern. I will not be fucked with on this matter."

"Yeah," she smirked, "we got that idea last visit."

"Did the shit I put you and the others through really have an effect?" I had to ask.

"Joshua, family is something we understand and when tempers cooled down we knew that you were acting like a son, not some macho asshole," Demona said. I figured that all-female gangs had to be twice as hard because the general attitude gangs had toward women. The suggestion was that Sienna had validated my actions as my Mom and I could live with that.

"Can I call you a taxi?" I asked Demona as I stood up.

"Sure," she let me usher her out as I made a quick call. She looked awkward as we stepped outside. Apparently she felt I was going to dump her in the stoop.

"Don't sweat it," I chuckled. "Cabs rarely take more than two minutes in this neighborhood."

"Up by Washington Heights it's more like twenty," she smiled once more. "One day maybe I'll make it big and move to a place with a view of Central Park."

"Get together a game plan and plot your moves Demona," I stated. "Work at it and talk to Mom from time to time if you need to. She's pretty savvy."

Demona was still studying my face, trying to determine if I was leading her on, when the taxi arrived and took her away.

"Hey Mom," I called out as I came back inside. Mom showed up, wearing what she had on earlier -- a beige camisole, white bra, blue jeans that highlighted her thighs and ass and was shoeless.

"Someone wants to get fucked," I said softly.

"What was that?" Mom smiled my way with a combination of curiosity and sensuality.

"I have a real hunger to make you mine," I said louder. Sienna smiled in response, leaned her back against a side of the hall and let her legs slide a quarter of the way down.

"I want to make you happy Joshua," she said in a disarmingly honest voice. I walked up to her only slowing down for her to spread her legs to let me sidle in between them. My hands went from her hips to her wrists then dragged her arms over her head.

"Oh, I'm going to make sure you make me happy Sienna," I snarled with my own brand of sexual hunger.

Sienna became totally passive, letting me pull her camisole up, covering her head, and kissing her stomach first before letting my hands roll over her flesh. She growled and shook her head. I wasn't totally sure but I sensed Mom wanted to vocalize but my command stopped her. She had already closed her eyes and was grinding away at her lower lip.

Yes, Sienna was taken -- blind and mute and physically neutralized. Her well-stressed heart was taking an extra beat and her nostrils were flaring to feed air to her growing arousal.

"Hold on tight," I ordered before digging my fingernails into her ass cheeks and hefted her up high enough so that she could wrap her muscular thighs and calves around me.

I certainly didn't run up stairs -- Mom's heavy -- but I took it fast as she showed excellent body control by not toppling us over. When we got to the second floor landing, I steadily kissed her and forced her tongue back in her mouth, totally subjugated to my will. I pushed her bedroom door open. I kissed her left ear and she reciprocated.

I sat her on the bed's edge and went back to tasting her lips and tickling her tongue as I took in the flavor of her. Man, I wanted to fuck her but I wanted to clear things up with her and Natalie more. The stronger will in this relationship was me.

"Sienna, strip down -- keep your eyes shut," I commanded. She heard my belt buckle hit the ground and my shoes get kicked off next to the door.

"On all fours," I directed. I went to her drawers and found some bindings and a sleeping mask. Sienna moaned as I came up behind her and let my hands caress her thighs, buttock and finally wiggle two fingers into her cunt. She tried to push down on my hand but I told her 'No'.

"I'm going to make you ride me but first I'm going to tie you up, my slut," I snarled. "You are going to be fucked."

Sienna bolted forward at me words and her smile was beaming. She was a bit confused when I took her left wrist, secured it then tied it to the canopy post. I want around her, rubbing my naked body, cock and all, against her flanks, lower back, ass then flank again. After I secured her right arm, I settled beneath her. Sienna shifted forward and down, straining against bound arms.

"No," I stopped her from pushing her body backward hoping to catch my penis inside her velvet folds. Sienna whimpered so I pushed my hips up against her until her vaginal juices coated my cockhead. This time, though she trembled, she kept her place and let me play with her cunt as I slapped her breasts and chewed on her tough nipples.

I got that rhythm going and she began to sway back and forth in her own private ecstasy when I suddenly pulled away and scooted off the bed. For a second, Sienna anticipated my return but then she heard me start getting dressed. Her discipline held but she was clearly in emotional distress.

"When you figure out why you are being punished, call me and if you are right I'll let you go. If you are wrong, I'll release you but ignore you for a day," I informed her.

It was more than the lack of sex between us that influenced Sienna. Her position was awkward. Her body would rest on her strained shoulders unless she pushed up with her hips but she could only do that for so long. She could have cried out in pain and be sure I would help her. She was my Mom and my woman after all -- I wasn't a sadist or a bully.

Pain had its place but it had to be matched evenly with an emotion. I had left Mom in discomfort and denied arousal but she had the key to her own freedom. Around three, I took a break from work and took Mom a glass of crushed ice. Not a word was exchanged but I did make sure her wrist binds weren't cutting off her circulation. She didn't have the answer and I had more work to do.

Natalie came in before five and appeared at my office door. She wasn't sure what to do.

"Hey Sis," I stood up, opening my arms. My Sister smiled and flowed into my arms. She hesitated with the kiss but I pulled her close and we French Kissed for fifteen seconds -- enough to put forth some real fire.

"We are not cheating on Heidi, are we?" Natalie whispered like some conspirator.

"No," I chuckled. "That's not how it works. You and Sienna communicate with Heidi and she'll find a way to sneak the information up on me. All of you are equal in my eyes -- you are all my ladies."

"Okay," Natalie snuggled into me. It wasn't a 'take me upstairs and fuck me' hug but a 'shelter me from an ugly world' gesture.

"Natalie, don't compare yourself to Heidi -- you two are very different and I don't want you to be anyone but my Sister who I've always wanted to keep safe and love," I explained.

"Are you really going to make me wear lingerie around the house?" she questioned.

"Abso-fucking-lutely," I stated firmly. "You looked hot this morning, so get used to being the object of my lusty desires." Natalie's mouth opened in protest then closed with a smile.

"Can I wear lingerie of my choice?" she said more compliantly.

"As long as Heidi approves of it, you should do fine," I allowed. "Oh, Sunday you are getting a tattoo along with the rest of the girls -- the Beverly Coat of Arms on the back of your neck."

"I...," she started out the she lowered her head, "if that is what you want." Good girl. "Joshua, I did what you wanted with Heidi at the hospital this morning before I took her into work and I got some feedback."

"She's illegal drug and disease free, she is taking un-prescribed antidepressants, her teeth need to be cleaned but she appears cavity-free. I'd like to give her some booster shots since there is no record of her having seen an actual physician since she was five," Natalie related.

"Oh, her real name is Heidi Brodsky but her married name is Carlson...and that's the problem," Natalie frowned.

"There is a Missing Person's notice for her in Northern New Mexico as well as an Order to Appear concerning her and another Missing Person named Bonny Carlson," worried Natalie.

"Don't try to hide anything," I stroked Natalie's cheek, "and we'll get a good lawyer to help fight extradition to New Mexico. Let them come to us if they want at her."

"We are going to get in a fight?" Natalie shivered.

"Without a doubt," I said with steely resolve. "They wanted to crush that light in her eyes and leave her a terrified, empty shell. I'll kill them if they give me the opportunity."

"I'm sure Mom will support you and I will too," Natalie tried to answer my resolve.

I liked that.

"Natalie, go up to Mom's -- My old -- room and say Hi! Take a dish of ice to rub on her nipples if you feel like. She started that little rebellion this morning so she's getting the chance to think about things," I sighed over Heidi's dilemma then grinned slightly.

"I -- I -- ummm okay," Natalie seemed shocked.

"If you like, you can suck or blow hot air on her nipples to further confuse her," I added.

"Do I have..." she started then met my gaze. "Yes Joshua," she bowed and headed out. Then I heard the ice machine going off. I noticed that she had taken off her heels before heading up so that Mom would get a real surprise.

(Gathering Home)

Heidi blazed down the hallway when I finished opening the door after picking her up. I caught sight of her rushing down the stairs. I made one more pass at the computer to see if anything important and/or business related had assailed my mail box. I lucked out but then I was gifted with the sounds of Natalie and Heidi running up stairs (Natalie was still in her stocking feet).

I was sure I'd be dealing with that soon, so I grabbed two beers and headed downstairs to see Mom. I gave her a lager, we knocked glasses then I sat down to take a swig.

"God that girl is crazy about you Son," Mom murmured after her own long pull on her beer.

"Which one and are your shoulders better?" I responded.

"Heidi, but Natalie is getting there. She really had me going this afternoon," Mom confided. "Right at the end, when she'd used up all her ice," Mom shivered, "we talked. That's when the answer...came to me." I had to weigh that statement. Sure, I could pounce on Natalie for giving the answer to why I was punishing Mom, or on Mom for talking...but Mom had learned her lesson.

Her daughter had trusted her too, and that counted a lot considering Natalie's long anger with our Mother. Mom wouldn't say anything more about it and she appreciated the risk Natalie had taken. In the end, harmony was the key. Natalie had bent a punishment to prove herself to one of my other women. Without trust we had nothing.

"She shoved two pieces of ice up my cunt," Mom rubbed below her drawstring on her shorts.

"There are still two decades of unresolved issues going on there," I sighed.

"I'll take what progress I can get," Mom looked my way. We saluted to small victories and hoisted away on our beers.

Natalie and Heidi came down stairs while we were still savoring the taste of our beers on our tongues. Natalie was dressed -- in a spider web bustier with small pink bows concealing the nipples. The thin, sheer panties tied at the sides had a slightly larger pink bow not doing much but drawing my eyes down to it. Worse of all, this was solely a distraction.

Heidi came down seconds after Natalie.

"Heidi," I coughed and shifted obviously, "you have to wear clothes around the house. It is a rule."

"I have on this choker," she touched her finger to a black choker with a cameo that graced her throat, "and sox," she motioned down to her white ankle sox with frills at the top.

"Do you wish me to change?" she added with a tinge of sadness. Natalie avoided eye contact but did slip around me and stretched out on the sofa.

"Come here you!" I snapped to Heidi. She jumped slightly then flew to my side. Before I could say anything she was starting to curl into my lap.

Her ear was on my sternum and her hands were drawn tightly to her chest.

"No you don't," I rumbled -- she stopped moving abruptly. "Straddle my lap right now." Heidi hopped to it and we were quickly face to face with my hands on her hips keeping her tight. "Don't you dare move."

I started kissing her on the corners of her mouth. As instructed, Heidi didn't move allowing me to kiss the tip of her nose, each eyelid and her temple and right ear.

"Now I want you curled up in my lap," I growled like some starved predator. Heidi resumed her position with the addition of tucking her knees up under her chin.

My arms wrapped around her and I maneuvered her ear to my lips.

"Mine, damn it," I whispered to her. Heidi sniffed then wiggled her butt happily. I decided to make her even happier. She was the least jealous woman I'd ever met too. I rocked us forward and stood. Mama scooted forward so I could sit on the top half of the sofa while Natalie rose to a half-reclining position.

I had this 'Conan' moment when Natalie laid her head down on my thigh, between Heidi's legs. Sienna pushed back until she could rest her underarms over my knees and her head against Heidi's thigh. My white-haired lover looked into my eyes, I nodded my permission to move about and we kissed as I spread my legs enough for her butt to rest on the sofa.

Heidi's right hand reached down as her backhand gently caressed Natalie's cheek. Natalie responded by touching her wrist with her own right forefinger. Heidi's left hand rested on Mom's head and flexed her fingers through Sienna's hair.

"I love my family Joshua," Heidi sighed with contentment. "I love my Mom, Sienna -- you are so strong you make me feel safe."

Mom remained silent but she did run her fingers through the fingers Heidi had on her hair.

"I love having a smart and sassy sister like you Natalie," she murmured. "I thought I'd feel stupid around you but you make me feel needed."

"You aren't stupid Heidi," Natalie kissed Heidi's palm. "Joshua would only have taken you in if you were as smart as the other women in his life."

"You are the best big brother I could ever hope for Joshua," Heidi finished and I marveled on how cleverly she woven a sense of comfort for herself and a stronger bond for all of us -- Mother, Sisters and Brother. She kissed the bottom of my chin and cuddled up for some quality family time.