Twinsequences (Twisted Twin #1)(7)
Author: Jennifer Foor

He laughed and brought my hand up to his lips. I watched him watching me. “If you don’t feel good, we can just lay together. I just want to spend time with you.”

As long as he knew that we weren’t having sex, I could handle sleeping next to him. In fact, I was looking forward to it. He was secretly fulfilling a fantasy. As lame as it was, sleeping next to him was like a dream. It had to be enough, because it was all I was going to get.

I knew where my sister kept her pajamas, but unlike mine that covered my whole body, hers left little to the imagination. I felt embarrassed holding up the little bit of fabric. Stoshua pulled off his jeans right in front of me. His shirt was the next item to go. I couldn’t help but gaze at his sculpted physique. His body was even more defined than I remembered. Before I even knew what I was doing, I found myself licking my lips.

When he caught me looking, he smiled and started to approach me. I grabbed a couple articles of clothing, without looking, and ran into the bathroom. With my back against the door, I looked down at what I had grabbed. It was just my luck that what I was holding couldn’t even begin to be considered clothing. Everything was see-‐through. Panic struck and I didn’t know what to do. Stoshua was expecting me to join him in bed. He wanted to wrap his arms around his wife and fall asleep.

I couldn’t go out there wearing my clothes and I wasn’t sure if I could put on any of the things that I was holding in my hand.

Knowing that I didn’t have a choice, unless I wanted to come clean about who I was, I slipped on a tiny white number and stared at my reflection in the mirror.

I was surprised that I actually looked decent. In fact, I let my hair fall down my back and admired myself.

Stoshua knew my sister intimately. He knew every inch of her body. There was no outfit that was going to make him believe that I was his wife.

I was scared.

My sister would never forgive me if I messed things up for her. I had to do my best to convince him that everything was fine. After taking a few more deep breaths, I opened the bathroom door and found him already tucked into bed. He sat up when he saw me walking toward him. “You look so hot!”

I smiled and climbed into bed next to him. This was all so wrong. I knew better than to agree to something so scandalous. Still, I couldn’t help myself. I was drawn to him. “Thanks.”

I got comfortable on my back, staring at the ceiling, with my hands folded across my chest. Being in bed with Stoshua was harder than I thought it would be. He was right there next to me. I could have reached out and touched his chiseled chest. I could have ran my hands through his dark wavy hair. I could be pressing my lips against his.

But I didn’t.

I remained still, just waiting for him to fall asleep.

“Do you love me?”

His words caught me off guard. “Yes.” It was the truth. After all this time, after he’d married my sister, I was still in love with him.

I felt his hand running down my arm until it reached my fingertips. He intertwined his with mine and just held it. “Goodnight, beautiful.”

Stosh started to snore shortly after that comment. I lay there wide awake, hearing him call me beautiful. I was practically naked in bed with him. We were holding hands and I wasn’t about to let go. I had just a few days to be with him. It was important to my sister that I did whatever it took. I just wasn’t sure how far I’d have to take things and if it came to being intimate, I didn’t know if I’d be able to say no.

I woke up in the middle of the night. His arm was draped around me and his head was nestled into my shoulder. I couldn’t help but take my fingers and run them through his dark hair. He didn’t flinch, so slowly, I reached over and kissed him right on the lips. I left mine lingering over his. He was warm and I wanted nothing more than to kiss him like he’d kissed me years ago in the hallway at school. I’d spent many nights thinking about that kiss.

It was a good thing he didn’t wake up.

I finally let myself fall back to sleep knowing that his body was against mine. It was good that it was dark in the room, because my smile was more than obvious.

I didn’t know what my sister had going on. I had no idea where she was, or who she was with. All I knew was that she’d left me to take over her life in her absence. In order to become my sister, I’d have to become Stosh’s wife. For some reason, it made what I was doing worth it.

When I woke up the next morning, Stosh was next to me with a smile on his face. He ran his fingertips over my arm, giving me goose bumps. “Good morning.”

I smiled. “Hi.”

“Are you hungry?”

I shrugged. “A little.”

“Let’s get dressed and go to breakfast.”

It was my favorite meal of the day. “Okay.”

“I want some French toast.” He sat up in bed and grabbed his pants, before walking into the bathroom. Just when I thought he was getting in the shower, he peeked his head out of the door. “You going to join me, or what?”

Chapter 4

I’m bringing sexy back.

As much as I wanted to stand up and slowly remove my clothes, so that I could join his hot, naked body in the shower, I knew I couldn’t. I already felt like I was stabbing my sister right in the back. Granted, she talked about him like he was a piece of crap and only really cared about herself, but he was still her husband. He’d made his choice and it wasn’t my place to come between them; not that he would ever want me anyway.

I was just the old friend that he probably felt sorry for.

When he got out of the shower, I was already dressed and ready to leave. I couldn’t stay in that bedroom for another minute, hoping to catch a glimpse of the water trickling down his sexy body.

Stosh drove us to a little place that was only around the corner. They served pancakes and pastries. I remembered my sister eating the Bavarian crèmes, so I ordered one of those. Stosh smiled when he sat down with our food and coffee. He kept smiling as he watched me eating it. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t as good as the fresh apple critters that I knew they made. I watched Stosh eating one and I almost licked my lips twice.

“So, I was wondering if you’d want to go out on the boat?”

He had a boat? I’d never known that. “Alone?”

He reached over and grabbed my hands. “I just want to spend the whole day alone with you. Is that so bad?”

I shook my head. “No, it’s really sweet. I guess I just didn’t think you wanted to be around me lately. I, uh, I got the impression that we weren’t on the same page.” What was I supposed to say? I couldn’t tell him that my sister had told me a whole different story.