LOGINShare
013
publish date:
2026-04-17 11:42:52
Latest chapter
Caught Between The REID Brothers 064
Harper's POV"He's asking for you again," the nurse said, stopping me in the corridor on my way back the next morning.I had come alone. Ashton had dropped me at the entrance and said he'd wait in the car, I understood him, and I had walked in.I pushed open Ethan's door. He was sitting up, wrist elevated, hospital breakfast untouched, and he looked better than last night, it was honestly more improvement than I had seen people look better after such an accident or shock."You came back," he said."I said I would, how's the wrist?” I sat in the chair beside the bed."Annoyingly painful, coach is going to be furious.""Coach can wait," I said. "How are you actually?""Strange, like something got shaken loose and I can't put it back where it was." He looked at the window. "I've been lying here since six am thinking about things I've been avoiding thinking about.""Like the fact that you were the first person they called,"The door opened, then I saw him. Mr. Reid was in the room and the
Caught Between The REID Brothers 063
Harper's POV"Which hospital?" Ashton said.He was already up, already finding my clothes, I was still sitting on the bed with the phone in my hand processing the words emergency contact and accident and stable condition."I need to call back, th..hey didn't say." I was tumbling over my words."Call in the car, we need to leave now,”We were out the door in under two minutes.I got the hospital name on the second call, a Collins RD hospital, and told Ashton and he redirected without a word and I sat with my hands in my lap and stared at the road and tried to locate the feeling in my chest accurately.I was scared, fear of losing someone I had spent two years caring about and couldn't switch that off regardless of everything that had changed between this morning and now."Hey, the caller said he is stable. You don't have to worry all the way there.”"I know.""You're still scared."He didn't say anything else, he just tried to drive faster.Madison was in the waiting room when we got t
Caught Between The REID Brothers 062
HARPER'S POVAfter the date, I walked back to campus alone letting go of what was supposed to be.I met up with Ashton the next day. I hadn't told him about any of the meetups so far, I was thinking of different ways on how to start the conversation.“You seem a bit distant, is there anything I should know?”We were on the bench outside and he was right. I had been present enough to respond when required but the rest of me had been thinking about something else entirely.”"I had coffee with Ethan last week," I said.He looked at his cup. "Oh yeah, I kinda figured it out.""You knew? Why didn't you say anything?"He turned to look at me directly. "Someone told me, and because I didn't know what you'd say back."I stared at him. "What did you think I'd say?""That you still had feelings for him." He held my gaze. "And I wasn't ready to hear that.""And if I told you I didn't still have feelings for him."Ashton looked at me for a long second."I'd say it's about time."I let the words s
Caught Between The REID Brothers 061
Ashton's POV"Oh, saw your brother with Harper at the restaurant place near the east gate by the way. It looked like a whole thing, flowers on the table and everything.”Bryce told me on a Friday morning like it was nothing.We were taping up before practice, the locker room loud with pre-session energy, we had played well all week and knew it.And Bryce was talking about something else entirely, a party, a girl, a story that I had been half following and then he mentioned Harper in the middle of everything else like it was just another detail in a list of things that had happened in his life.I finished the tape on my wrist. "When?" I said."Yesterday afternoon around three." Bryce kept talking, moving on to the next thing, completely unaware that he had dropped a bomb. “Anyway, back to what I was saying—"Practice was the best session I had put together all month.Coach pulled me aside after the first drill and said whatever I was doing I should keep doing it and I nodded and went
Caught Between The REID Brothers 060
Harper's POV"You're early," I said.Ethan was already at the corner table when I walked in, which was new. He was always never on time, never before, and finding him already seated with two menus and a small bunch another flowers on the table told me he had been here long enough to have arranged all of it and sit with his hands folded waiting."I didn't want you to be the one waiting this time," he gestured for me to sit.I sat down across from him and looked at the flowers and then at his face and he looked like someone who had made a decision and was quietly committed to seeing it through."How are you?" he smiled.I looked at him. "You actually want to know?""I actually want to know.""I am tired, I have an essay that's due on Friday, how about you?”"Better than last week." He turned his cup on the table. "Madison and I talked.""How did it go?”"Honestly? It was hard. She said things I needed to hear and I said things I should have explained before we started all these and by t
Caught Between The REID Brothers 059
Harper's POVI went back to my dorm after and I couldn't stop beaming."You have a visitor."Jade said it from the doorway and broke my flashbacks.I looked up from my laptop. "Who?""Tall, football shoulders, holding flowers for the second time this month." She leaned against the frame. "Your brother's keeper is downstairs.""Ethan is not my—""I know what he is," she said. "I'm just telling you he's there."I closed my laptop.."Did he say what he wanted?""He said he wanted to talk." She paused. "He looked nervous, which I will admit I found mildly interesting because I have never seen him look nervous around you.”I sat there for a second. "Tell him I'll be down in five minutes," I said.Jade disappeared, I stayed on my bed for the full five minutes doing nothing except staring at the wall and having a very brief and very direct internal conversation with myself about what I was and was not going to do in this interaction.I was not going to be the version of me that dissolved the
Caught Between The REID Brothers 022
Ethan's PovI pushed the door shut with my shoulder, the keys still jingling in my hand while Madison kicked her sneakers off and laughed like the game was still playing out in our living room.The victory high clung to both of us, thick as the crowd noise we’d left behind at the arena.“Ethan,” s
Caught Between The REID Brothers 021
Ashton's POVWestbrook won Four–Two.The locker room was loud the way it normally is after a good win, music too high, everyone talking over everyone else, someone had already ordered food that nobody asked for and everyone was eating. Coach gave his post game talk and it landed well and the energy
Caught Between The REID Brothers 020
Harper's Pov“Harper, can I borrow your curling iron?”A girl asked, she lived down the hall and she barely spoke to me, I had my suspicion that it was because The Ashton Reid was standing in front of me.“Hi, Ashton, I'm your biggest fan and—”“We'll talk some other time, Harper.”He leaves. I sat
Caught Between The REID Brothers 018
Ashton's POVI woke up at six fifteen and checked my phone before I was fully conscious.Nothing from Harper. Yet.I put it face down and stared at the ceiling for about thirty seconds. Friends. That was what we agreed on. That was the right call and I knew it was the right call and I was not going
You may also like
Teacher's Pet
Anna Kendra35.4K viewsStep Siblings
ekpikapere76.9K viewsKnowing Jude
S.H. Waen40.5K viewsJust A Kiss
Kadene35.3K viewsEdges Of Us
Ravenna611 viewsSix Months Of You
Nicholeta148 viewsA Not So Cute Meet With Captain Arrogant
Hands Of God145 viewsMy 4 Hot Stepbrothers Want a Taste of Me
Universeleap4.2K views
