Free Inferno by Stormy Glenn Page B

“You really can talk to your brother telepathically.”
    “I can, and he can talk to me. We’re born with the ability. All the twins in our family have it.”
    “There are more of you?”
    “My parents had four sets of twins. They are pretty common in my family.”
    “That’s like…” Danny blinked. “A lot of siblings.”
    “Abe and I are the second to the oldest set of twins. Gabe and Mike are older than us. Sam and Joe are the next set with Mo and Noah the babies of the family.”
    “I have three bro—” Danny’s voice faded as he realized he didn’t have any siblings, at least none that he knew of. “I guess I don’t have anyone.”
    “And that’s where you would be wrong. You have an entire family waiting to meet you back in Pacific Cove—grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins. Not to mention my entire family. You are not alone, Danny, and you never have been.”
    “You say that but where have these people been all my life? If they are so excited to see me then why haven’t they come to see me before now?”
    “It wasn’t allowed, Danny.”
    Danny looked up at the deep voice to see Abe standing in the doorway. “What wasn’t allowed?”
    “When your parents were killed at the lake, several other people were either killed or injured. Things were chaotic for quite a while. People were in a panic, scared. The hunters had gotten away and there was a fear that they would come back and try to finish killing us. Charles decided that you would be safer in the city, away from us and away from our kind, away from more danger.”
    Our kind? Those two words resonated inside of Danny but so did the need to know who had made such life-altering decisions about his life. “Who decided this?”
    “In the beginning, it was your grandparents,” Ben answered. “Your parents were dead. Your grandmother had been injured and even now twenty-three years later she has to use a cane to get around.”
    “My grandmother was injured in the attack?”
    “She was hit by a shotgun blast in the back as she tried to run away.”
    A cold shiver rippled through Danny. He clutched the warm soft furry kitten to his chest. “They shot her in the back?”
    “We believe that they were just a bunch if hunters that had gone into the mountains to hunt. They never expected to come across a small town in the middle of nowhere. We’re kind of hidden away from the rest of the world. We never knew who they were but we’ve never seen them again so I think they were either scared away by what they saw or trying to hide what they did.”
    “That doesn’t explain why they started shooting at everyone!” Danny’s stomach knotted as he started to imagine what had happened to his parents, how they must have suffered before they were so callously murdered by hunters.
    “Actually, it kind of does.” Ben’s demeanor grew more somber as he turned to look at his twin. Something seemed to settle about him as he drew in a deep breath and let it out, turning to face Danny. “The people of Pacific Cove aren’t like other people, Danny. We’re different, special.”
    “But not in a bad way,” Abe hurried to add.
    “No, not in a bad way,” Ben said as he glanced over his shoulder at Abe. “We’re not monsters or anything like that. We’re just different.”
    Danny narrowed his gaze, staring intently at the two brothers. “Different how?” Fear punched through Danny’s gut when Ben stood and walked over to stand next to his brother. It wasn’t the two men he was afraid of exactly but more the apprehension he could see on their faces.
    That terrified him.
    “Wha–what are you doing?” he asked when Abe started undressing. It wasn’t that he had an issue with a gorgeous man stripping in his bedroom but he had kind of been hoping to get some answers first. Danny gulped when Abe’s shirt dropped to the floor.
    Of course, getting naked was good, too.
    By the time the last item of clothing had hit the floor, Danny was ready to