Free Double Trouble by Erosa Knowles

case, Blaine had just been blindsided as well. His dad had been angry over the fight he and his twin had over Lindy, but would he have taken it to this level? Stolen all these years he could have spent with his son?
    “We are not lying,” Blaine said into the silence. “We just found out about Adam, and we never received any messages that you’d called. Never! Neither of us would’ve allowed you to go through a pregnancy by yourself.”
    Lindy might not have heard the anger in Blaine’s voice but Donald did. His father had crossed a line and he would deal with him later regarding that. Right now he had to switch gears and convince the mother of his son he had not abandoned her.
    “You know or, knew, us, Lindy. You know we’d never leave our kid, we’re not like that.” Donald hoped she would give them the benefit of past shared memories and allow them to make it up to her and the boy.
    Blaine stepped forward, took her hand and placed her palm against his chest while staring down at her. “I swear baby, we never knew you called until just now. He never gave us those messages.” He inhaled and then released the air slowly. “I am sorrier for that than you can ever imagine and ashamed that my father would treat us that way. He stole years from us, years we could’ve been together.” He shook his head as pain threaded through his voice. “I didn’t know,” he whispered over and over again as he pulled her into his arms holding her close. He leaned back, grazed her chin with his thumb as he looked into her eyes.
    Donald knew what was coming and forced himself to remain still as his brother kissed the only woman he would ever love. He waited for the green monster to ride him hard, as it had when they were younger.
    It didn’t happen.
    Seeing the gentle way Blaine handled Lindy and her response settled him. And if the way she responded in his arms before, and now Blaine’s, was any indication, she could never chose between them anyway. They were back to the same challenge they had as teens, only this time he and Blaine were older, wiser, and more determined than ever to keep the woman of their dreams with them.
    Belinda still could not believe the twins, her twins, stood in front of her. Time had been damn good to them. Tall, dark hair, and those bodies, lord have mercy they were fine. Staring at them, she forgot the call from Robert asking her to meet him for dinner or the call from Abe informing her that another letter had arrived from that P.O. Box in Florida. Somehow Trinity had gotten her mailing address and started sending condolence cards every week. Even if the cards were for her dad, which they weren’t. It would have been inappropriate since he was still alive. The cards were condolences on Belinda’s walking dead condition because she had left the church in Miami.
    She was on her way home to put the card away in a box that held the collection of hate mail from Trinity, and then change for dinner with Robert. Until she bumped into her past.
    “Your dad never told you?” she whispered, unable to believe the charming man she had met once for a few minutes would lie to her. Now that she thought about back, it was uncanny how he was the only one who answered the phone whenever she called. “Was that his personal phone or something?”
    Blaine shrugged. “Back then we only had one phone, and it was in the house. He never told us you called. Never.”
    Gut punched, she watched his cheeks redden and recognized the signs of his mounting rage. Damn. All this time... she thought they knew and didn’t care. “Why did he lie?” She glanced at Donnie, and saw the same signs of anger in him.
    “I don’t know, but I will be sure to ask him that later today,” Donald said through a clenched jaw.
    “Can we talk? Just for a few minutes? There is so much I want to know,” Blaine said, his eyes imploring as his large palms stroked her arm.
    Her body literally hummed, vibrated with excitement. God it had been