Twinsequences (Twisted Twin #1)(44)
Author: Jennifer Foor

I kept my arms around her, feeling like her support was giving me strength. “Thank you.”

“I knew my son was hot for you back in high school. It never made sense how he ended up with Ivy. She wasn’t his type what so ever. Then when all of this stuff started happening, I had to question my son. Things just weren’t adding up. After he was arrested, he sat us down and explained everything. I’m very sorry for believing her, Willow. I do hope that someday you can forgive me for that.”

I started sobbing. “I already do. You don’t know how much this means to me.” I pulled away and wiped my eyes. “I trusted her and all this time she’s been living her life with a goal to destroy me. I love your son. I always have.”

“Please dry your tears. It’s going to be alright, child.”

I shook my head. “Everything that I’ve ever known about my sister has been a lie. I loved her as much as I loved myself and she never cared about me at all. She’d rather see me dead than happy. In fact, she’d do just about anything to see me miserable.”

Emotions were pouring out of me at this point. I couldn’t control them. So much pent up anxiety had caused me to lose it finally.

“Yesterday, when we got the call that Stoshua needed our help, you can imagine how we wanted answers. Once we brought him home, he told us all about your sister. Forgive me for being blunt with you, Willow, but you’ve really been dragged in the muck for long enough. I’m not one to use profanity, but that little bitch has messed with the wrong family. We had no idea about any of this. I never would have accepted her into my family, otherwise.”

Even though a weight was being lifted off of me, it still didn’t change the mess that my sister had managed to make of my life. We’d forever be judged for our relationship. Still, I wrapped my arms around the woman. “Thank you for saying that. It’s been difficult to take in, so I can understand how confusing it all must be. Had I known back then, things would have ended up differently.”

“And your parents are not angry with her over this?”

I pulled away and looked down at the floor. “They think I’m the bad guy in all of this. In fact, they think I pretended to be my sister to seduce Stosh. She told them lies about me, and about him. Now we’re just trying to figure out a way to be together without her finding out about the bab…” I realized what I said and just froze.

She was looking from me to Stosh. “You’re pregnant?”

“I…”

Stosh stepped between us. “We’re having a baby, Mom.”

She put her hands over her mouth and just kept looking at us. Stosh looked at me and winked, but I was scared that everything the woman had told me was going to be retracted. “I’m going to be a grandmother?”

He began to laugh. “Yes, you are. I wanted to tell you yesterday. We just can’t let Ivy find out about it.”

His mom seemed alarmed by his comment. “Why?”

This time, I didn’t care about keeping my feelings bottled in. “Ivy didn’t just set me and Stosh up to get caught. She found out she couldn’t get pregnant. I guess it also occurred to her that she’d never have Stosh’s heart, so she did her research and found out when I’d be ovulating.”

I saw that she was lost. “Come again? What are you saying?”

“We’re twins, so my baby would be the closest thing she’d ever get to having one of her own. She wanted to steal my baby.”

She looked at her son. “You knew about this?”

He held his hands up. “Yeah, I did.”

“How could you?” She slapped her son right in the face. “You were raised better!”

He didn’t back away from her. “Mom, I can explain.”

“You better start!”

Stosh spent the next hour telling his mother the details that he’d left out before. Even I could tell how disappointed she was in him, even if his intentions were out of desperation.

When it was all said and done she turned her attention back to me. “Willow, I am awfully happy about being a grandmother, but I wouldn’t blame you for being angry with my son. I don’t approve of his actions.”

“He wasn’t the only one who lied. I told him I aborted the baby. I had gone back to town and just wanted to forget what had happened. Regrettably, I did make the appointment, but the idea of giving up a baby was just too much for me to handle. Besides, I think in my heart, I just wanted to have a part of your son, even if he didn’t want that with me.”

“So you were never going to tell him?”

I shrugged. “I don’t know.”

She shook her head. “This is like something I read in my novels. I didn’t think this kind of stuff happened in real life.”

“Apparently, it does.”

She pointed at both of us. “So, where do you stand now?”

He put his arm around me. “We’re together; where we should have been all along.”

“And Ivy?”

“We don’t know where she is.” I announced.

“So you could be in danger?”

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“I will keep her safe.” Stosh informed her.

“You’ll stay here with us. I’m not having that girl come anywhere near my grandchild.” She was adamant.

The last thing either of us wanted to do was stay at his parent’s house, but we knew it was a safe place to be before we could get everything else figured out. The next few weeks were going to be hectic as Stosh would be looking for a new job and a place for us to live.

Since his father wasn’t around for the conversation, he had to sit down with him later that night and explain it all again. He was as flabbergasted as his wife, but ended up being just as supportive.

Before bed, Stosh held me tightly in his arms. I felt safer than I had in days. “I’m going to see your mother tomorrow.”

I sat up and looked at him. “What?”

“It’s time she starts listening, Will. This shit has been going on long enough. Instead of running from Ivy, we’re going to fight her. She’s going down and I’m going to do my damndest to make sure that it’s slow and painful.”

“Fine by me.”

He kissed me on my nose. “Get some sleep. You’re coming with me in the morning.”