Replace Me (Kin #2)(34)
Author: Jennifer Foor

Joey wiped his face and looked down at me. I could sense that he was satiated and impressed, but needed to hear it for myself. I licked his tip again, staying there next to his spent, limp shaft. “Mmm, how did it feel?”

“You know the answer already.”

“Give and you shall receive.” I ran my hands up his thighs, making him moan again.

He cleared his throat and grabbed my hair, forcing me to climb up to be even with him. “There’s not enough hours in the day for me to be able to do the things I want to do to you.”

I brought my lips to his ear and whispered, “I have nowhere else to be.”

This time I wasn’t going to run away. I couldn’t.

No man had ever made me feel so insatiable and I believed that I was different than the others. With the amount of pleasure that he’d offered me, I wondered if I could overlook any of his flaws and accept the things he gave me instead. Did I really need that forever after, anyway?

Chapter 16

Shayne

Ashley had her first doctor’s appointment and asked if I wanted to go. I didn’t, at first, feeling like it was creepy for me, who’d never actually been intimate with her, to be in the room when she got naked, and felt up by a doctor.

After much consideration, and knowing she was going at it alone, I decided it was necessary to be the support she needed.

We’d been getting along fine, maybe because we’d known each other for so long. Aside from her being vindictive, Ashley had always been a nice person. Her love for Ford sent her over the edge and I couldn’t entirely blame her. When his sister died, tragically, he shut down. We all knew he’d never recover and be the guy he was before that day. Ashley happened to be the odd person out.

For a while, I hated her. She expected me to be okay with her using Ford and never speaking up about the real biological father. Some truths were out, while I struggled with the other one that would eventually rock my family.

To us, we were just roommates with a common interest, but to others, we were two people starting a family. It was absurd and frustrating, but certainly distracted the other f**ked up aspects of my life.

My father allowed me to come back to work. He avoided me unless it was crucial to communicate. Our relationship would never be close and I didn’t really care. The man was harsh and his morals were shit.

All I could hope was that the fate of my niece or nephew wouldn’t have anything to do with him.

Ashley was nervous about her first appointment, especially when we got back in the room. She wasn’t required to undress, which was good for me, considering I didn’t want anything to do with that. I guess it was out of nervousness, but Ash looked over and asked me a question that I surely didn’t expect. “Shayne, you miss Lacey don’t you?”

I was sitting in the chair across from the exam table and looked down at the floor. “Yeah, but that ship has sailed.”

“I can’t believe she’s seein’ Joey, of all people.”

I thought about her upsetting call and how I hadn’t heard a thing from her since. Suddenly, I became worried and decided to walk outside to check on her. It was a good thing that I had her new number, otherwise I would have been freaking out.

It rang six times before the voicemail picked up. Instead of leaving a message, I dialed it again and this time I was more shocked than anything else.

“Hello?” A male voice answered the phone.

“I must have the wrong number.”

“Are you looking for Lace?” I hated that someone else called her that. It had always been my nickname for her when she visited the beach.

“Yeah. Is she around?”

“Is this Shayne?”

Right away I got defensive, but my fear was being verified. “Joey?”

I heard an air filled laugh on the other end of the phone. “Yeah, it’s me.”

Maybe I should have kept my mouth shut, except I hated that he was answering her phone. “You need to leave her alone, dude.”

“Come again?”

“Lacey. You need to walk away. Look, I don’t blame you for wantin’ a piece, but she’s not a f**kin’ toy. She wants somethin’ real, man.”

“It ain’t your business, Shayne.”

I clenched my fist, wanting to reach through the phone and beat the shit out of him. “She is still my business. You really think she would have run to you, if I hadn’t pushed her away? Lacey’s smart. She’ll wise up and see how you really are and if I find out it’s because you hurt her, you’ll have Hell to pay.”

Joey started laughing. “Now you’re threatenin’ me? I can promise you that Lacey’s in good hands. She said that nobody’s ever made her cum like I do.”

“Fuck you!”

“Oh she is, over and over again.”

“You’re messin’ with the wrong guy, Joey.”

“Shayne, don’t call Lacey anymore and watch what you promise. There ain’t no way you’ll win this battle.”

I went to say something else, but he’d already hung up. Feeling more pissed, I went back into the doctor’s office and found that he was there, already talking to Ashley. Her belly was exposed and he had some device pressed against it. I could hear the rapid beating and recognized it from television shows. There was a little child growing and even if it wasn’t mine, it was still a part of me. My mind started to ease as I listened and saw Ashley smiling from ear to ear.

The doctor put the device down and folded his hands. “Do twins run in either of your family’s?”

The knot was back and consuming me with shock and awe. “My siblin’s are twins.”

“I’m hearing multiple heartbeats. Just to be sure, I’m going to order a sonogram.”

Neither Ashley or myself could stop looking like we were going to be sick. I grabbed her hand and threw her a smile as he was writing the referral for the test. “It’s goin’ to be fine, Ash.”

I knew it wasn’t. One baby was hard enough, but two? My brother was in for a world of change and I had no clue how I was going to break it to him.

Ashley cried the whole way to the diagnostic center. I tried to reassure her, but simply couldn’t find the right thing to say. Neither of us was ready for one kid, two was going to be impossible to prepare for. Giving up the next couple of years for my brother seemed to be turning out as a huge mistake. Nothing good was going to come out of this mess.

An hour later, after I watched a long dick looking thing go underneath the sheet, we were looking at two blobs on the little monitor. The tech confirmed that there were in fact two babies growing in Ashley’s stomach. Had it not been for me seeing them myself, and realizing that they were little humans, living breathing, and family, I may not have been able to stand up. Instead of freaking out, I stared at the screen mindlessly watching them.