The Evil Twin? (24 page)

“Why don’t we go join the semi-drunk women?” the mother suggested, winking at my aunt.

I let my aunt and the mother walk ahead of us and grumbled, “I don’t like the sight of this.”

“What do you mean?” Annie asked and Meg leaned in to get the scoop.

“The mother…yes her, Meg,” I said looking in the direction of the giggling women that had met less than a week ago and added, “I think this is a ploy the mother put in place to win me over.”

“What’s wrong with that, Vinnie?” Meg chimed in and Annie nodded.

“I don’t want her becoming Mami’s besty and have Mami tell me how I should call her ‘mommy’. Not happening!!” I growled.

“Vinnie, Preethi Mami is so sweet.”

“Exactly what I was worried about. You see what I am talking about Annie?”

“For once, I don’t Vinnie. The poor woman lost her daughter and husband in one accident and is just grateful that Reyan rolled off the highway in the middle of the night.” Annie said hi-five-ing with Meg.

“You guys are being ridiculous. I am gonna go break up those future BFFs, and it looks like Reyan’s mom is one of the contenders,” I grumbled.

“Do you really want to mess with your boyfriend’s mom?” Annie giggled.

“I have no choice.” I walked away from the two giggling girls and went to take a seat between my aunt and the mother.

“You guys are having too much fun. What are you guys talking about?” I asked pasting a smile on my face.

“Should we tell her now or should we wait for Reyan to be back?” my aunt asked winking at the mother and Reyan’s mom.

“We should tell her. I am sure she is itching to find out what we are talking about,” the mother chimed in.

“Vinnie, I finally have investors and someone willing to market my products.”

“Oh my god, Mami. Really?” I shrieked hugging my aunt.

“Yeah baby, Preethi and Seema are my investors and Reyan is going to take care of marketing.” My aunt planted a kiss on my forehead and added, “The most exciting time of my life.”

“Mami, no,” I said my voice barely audible.

“What is it Vinnie?” my aunt asked picking up the strain in my voice.

I ignored my aunt’s question and turned to look at the mother.

“Do you think you can win me over with all these things?” my voice was a whiplash.

“Vinnie, what are you talking about?” the mother asked softly.

“We don’t need investors who are not passionate about the products my aunt produces,” I said and added looking at my aunt, “Mami this is a bad idea.”

“Vinnie, what is going on?” Reyan’s mom asked and added, “Preethi and I have always wanted to get into the food industry, and we see this as a great opportunity. Why do you think we are not passionate about it?”

“Because everything I have seen the past few days is a ploy to get me to accept you as my mother, and I am telling you right now that is not happening. You can’t just give me up and then come looking for me when you lose your favorite child,” I said in an elevated voice grabbing more than a handful of women’s attention.

“Vinnie, get a hold of yourself,” my aunt warned.

“No Mami, I have tried really hard this past week to do the right thing, but I just can’t get over the fact that she didn’t care for me until the accident.”

“That’s because I didn’t know you were alive,” the voice of a grieving mother cut through my bullshit.

“What?” I gasped.

              She looked at me in silence and when she finally spoke her voice was strained, “I was told that your were a stillborn, and they didn’t want me to see you.”

              Reyan’s mom put her arm around her. She looked straight at me ignoring the mumbling in the background and said softly, “I didn’t know you were alive until two years ago. I thought I had lost you at birth.”

              “Vinnie, are you okay?” Annie asked looking at me, and I just stared at the woman in front of me feeling the pain from her tears down in the pit of my stomach.             

              “I don’t believe this,” I uttered.

              “It’s true, Vinnie. I know what Preethi went through,” Reyan’s mom chimed in.

“Your father didn’t tell anyone about how he had sent you to your mom and dad the day you were born. Nandi died at the spot of the accident, but your father fought for his life just so he could tell me about you. He wanted me to know that you were alive.” Her voice was calm but stern.

“Why didn’t he say something in all those years?” I asked unable to stop myself.

Your father didn’t have the courage to tell me about your existence and kept combing India for your mom and dad until someone finally told him that they had left the country. He suffered twenty-one years with his own guilt stinging him every time I published a book with your name.”

“I’m…I’m sorry…I…”

“You don’t need to apologize, Vinnie. I am glad this came up, and you know I didn’t come looking for you just because I lost Nandana.”

I hid my face in my palms and mumbled, “I am sorry, I shouldn’t have…”

I felt the warmth from her embrace and knew it was her. I didn’t have to open my eyes to know who was wiping off my tears. I didn’t need to look into her eyes to know how much pain she endured, and yet it took me this long to acknowledge that she is my mother.

“I need some time for myself,” I whispered and left the party area and headed upstairs to my room. I locked the door and stood with my back to it.

A new mother was told that her child was a stillborn and the mother kept her alive through her work, her twin that spent time together in the womb changed her name, and then a father who lied to a mother because of a superstition. He was the one I should be angry with, the man who let me go. The man picked me to give away because he was convinced I was the evil twin.

Chapter 24

I woke up to the sound of the bedroom door opening and said, “Annie, I really don’t want to talk now and how did you get in? I am pretty sure I locked the door.”

“It’s my room you know, I have the master key,” Reyan’s smooth voice shook me awake.

“Reyan,” I called out and instantly felt his arms wrap around me securely.

“I am so angry with you right now, I want to kill you.”

“I know baby,” he said planting a kiss on my forehead.

“Go away,” I barked, pushing him away.

“Please don’t push me, you know I don’t like it.” He came back to put his arms around me.

“Do you have any idea how pissed I am,” I said wiggling out of his hands and pushing him away.

“Baby…that’s strike number two. I didn’t come all the way from Vegas for this.” His voice had a hint of anger, but I didn’t care.

“I didn’t ask you to come,” I said and pushed him away for the third time and rasped, “Don’t touch me.”

He grabbed my hands by my wrists and held them firmly behind me with one hand. He was angry. I could tell just from the way his breath fanned my face, and I knew he was exercising a lot of restraint.

“Get a grip, Vinnie,” his voice was gruff.

“Reyan, why the fuck didn’t you tell me everything? I…” I broke off when I felt his lips on mine with a crushing desire. He was angry about the way I behaved, and I was pissed about everything.

He continued on with the punishing pressure on my lips holding my wrists together while I fought my inner desire to give in and be consumed by the pleasure that kicked in. The thrill of being dominated by a virile man triggered an unknown level of lust in me, but I managed to nip it in the bud. I raised my knee instinctively to crush him but he was quick to grab my knee and with his free hand pushed it aside opening me up.

My gasp was lost against his lips when he dug his arousal into my mound and moaned when his palm cupped my ass to press his hardness deeper into me. I was outraged and aroused by the range of sensations I felt. The burn on my wrists only made me hotter for him, and his arousal awakened my nub, but the pressure on my lips made me want to claw his face off.

I moaned against his lips objecting to the roughness, and he eased the pressure on my lips but dug his fingertips into my bottom making me pool between my legs. I gathered the strength to pull back my lips from him only to take them back to his with an unbounding urge to suck his lips.

He let go of my hands as if in reaction to the shift in pressure on his lower lips, and I ran my fingers through his thick hair and took his lower lip between his teeth.

He groaned grasping me by my hair when I reached for his hardness, leaving a trail of kisses along the side of my neck.

“Who the heck said you could get your mom and my mother to invest in my aunt’s business,” I rasped opening up my neck to him enjoying the nipping and biting.

He mumbled his response against my neck sucking on the skin like he wanted to taste my blood.

“Reyan…” I growled letting go of his hardness to sink my nails into his neck and shoulders.

He brought his lips back to mine flattening my back on the mattress, and I gasped as he increased the pressure on my lips and dug the length of his arousal along the length of my craving cave of lava.

“I know you want to rip my face off, but you are too wet to do that to me,” he groaned.

My body rocked with the tremors ripping through it just with the surface tension he brought on my mound teasing me with his hardness. He was large, the largest I had been with, and he seemed to get deliciously bigger every time he made love to me.

“Yes,” I moaned.

“Yes, what?” he growled running his fingers along my inner thighs. I arched and lifted my hips to invite him in unable to wait any longer.

“I am angry so don’t make me wait,” I warned, wanting him and needing him so badly I thought I would die if he didn’t enter me that very second.

“Oh, I love it baby, you are so hot!!”

I let go of his hair and reached down to find the bulge that threatened to rip through his dress pants. I flattened my palm over his erection and stroked him over his pants.

“How dare you go behind my back and make deals with my family?” I growled, running my tongue along his cheek not letting go of his throbbing virility.

“Fuck you,” he groaned against my skin running his fingers through my hair.

I gathered my strength and pushed him off me to go on top of him. I used my body weight to flatten his back on the mattress and looked down at him running my bottom in circles over his arousal.

He moaned throwing his head back reaching to squeeze my breast through the silk blouse that clung to my chest.

“I will fuck you!!” I snarled unzipping the zipper on the side of the blouse letting my breasts tumble into his eager hands.

“Yeah baby,” he said pulling me to him to take the aching nipple into his mouth while he pinched and tugged on the other. Liquefied lust surged between my legs flooding my inner folds with the growing need to be filled by him.

He groaned when I pulled my nipple out of his mouth to reach for the clasp on his dress pants. I pushed his pants and boxers down letting the convulsing beast spring into my awaiting hands. I took my lips to the hot tip unable to stop myself and took him into my mouth.

I let him out of my mouth and took him into my palm stroking him while I squeezed the thick base of his hardness to let him come slowly, just the way he liked it. I felt the thrills pass through my body at the idea of looking into his eyes while he exploded inside me. I hastily lifted up my skirt and pulled down my damp panties and lifted myself to angle myself over him.

“I will deal with you later,” I warned guiding him into me to the hilt.

We moaned in unison as my inner muscles took in his delectable hardness and cocooned him never wanting him to leave.

“Fuck me baby, show me how mad you are with me.”

I threw my head back letting my hair sway wildly as I lifted myself up and down along his long shaft.

“Why are you so big tonight?” I rasped as he dug his fingertips into my ass cheeks guiding me through the rhythmic movement.

“Are you complaining about it?” he barked taking one hand to my mound as he continued to guide me in my dominant position. I groaned unable to speak when he started rubbing my clit with the back of his hand. The sensations triggered by a swollen clit that was being expertly tantalized by able fingers combined with his hardness impaled in me completely were turbulent, taking me over the edge.

“Come for me baby, I am ready,” he urged stroking my clit with his fingers.

I let out a shriek as my body stiffened to the rush of blood I felt through every single vessel, and the pleasure soared through my body with the warmth that filled the gaps inside me to perfection.

I lost control of myself and crashed onto him gripping him tightly as I felt the heat from deep below flare outward. I lay in his arms enjoying the spasm after spasm as my inner muscles contracted and released around him.

“I am still fucking angry with you,” I gasped for air against his chest that heaved up and down heavily.

“Again,” he ordered, rolling to his side to come on top of me while staying inside me.

He pulled himself out and thrust back in sending jitters through my body.

“Again,” I demanded running my palms along his well- built thighs.

“Oh baby…I want to hear you say it, what do you want again?”

“Did you ditch your brother’s bachelor party for this?”

“Yes, now say it,” he ordered.

“I…I want you to fuck me…I want more…” I stuttered gasping for air as he plunged into me at an angle hitting the spot that sent me wailing in the middle of the night. He pounded away with a relentless rhythm, and I felt my climb come to me. I let go giving up every single thought in my mind only to delve into the sea of desire and soared through the heavens like a shooting star.

Reyan planted a kiss on my sweaty forehead and wiped off the bead of sweat lingering on my jawline.

“Are you still mad?”

“I am, but I am exhausted,” I said burying my face into his silk shirt.

“Mission accomplished,” he chuckled holding me to him.

“Not funny. I will deal with you in the morning, now get out.”

“I am not going anywhere,” he nuzzled my ear.

“Is it morning already?” I asked my breathing starting to steady.

“It’s not love, it’s barely ten o’clock. Go back to sleep.” I could hear the music downstairs from the party.

“You are supposed to be in Vegas, what are you doing here?”

“I am here for my girlfriend.” He wrapped his arms around my bare waist and pulled me back to him.

“I hate you for making me speak to my mother like a bitch tonight,” I growled pulling away and added, “Why didn’t you tell me I had a mother that was looking for me? I hate you...”

“I know, I love you too baby.” He left a trail of kisses along the side of my neck.

“I was such a bitch tonight.”

“It’s okay, easy,” he said rocking me in his arms.

“What are you doing here when you were supposed to be getting lap dances in Vegas?”

“Wrong question sweetness.”

“What?”

“Ask me the question you asked me about your aunt’s investors.”

“Yes, what the heck?” I gently slapped his chest.

“You asked me to find her investors.”

“I did not, and we never talked about my aunt wanting an investor.”

“He took his lips to my cheek and said, “You did, and it was the night you don’t remember.”

“Was this on Annie’s birthday?”

He nodded winding his arms around me.

“I don’t believe it. I’ve never once thought about getting an investor for her because I wanted to save up the money for her to get started.”

“Annie is proof to everything you said that night.”

“I couldn’t get her to tell me what I blabbered that night.”

“That’s because I wanted to tell you.”

“Did I call you a prick for not telling me everything sooner?”

“Nope.”

“What did I say?”

“A lot of things.”

“Like what?”

He brought his lips to mine and said, “You refused to get out of the car until I gave you an Aussie.”

“What?”

“It’s a good thing Annie couldn’t tell what you were asking me,” he laughed.

“That’s ridiculous…I was angry with you. I wouldn’t have asked you for an Aussie.”

“You did.”

“And what else?”

“You asked me to put a baby in your belly.”

“Eeeeewww.”

“I swear you did.” He smiled, and I could see his eyes gleam in the darkness as he brushed his lips against mine.

“I did not,” I objected pulling back.

“Sweetheart, remember you were drunk and you had just found out that Chloe and Eddie were having a baby?”

“There is no way I would have said that. I never thought about babies,” I said shaking my head.

“You didn’t stop there. You told Annie that she would be your baby’s godmother.”

“What the crap did I drink that night?”

“You were under a lot of duress baby, I am sorry.”

“Reyan, don’t mess with me.”

“I am not baby. I was huffing and puffing when I came to the club and found you in that unruly state, but my anger dissipated as soon as you started talking. I could not stop laughing and Annie was laughing hysterically.”

“What was the big deal with leaving the club? I was pissed off at you for having bouncers watch us.”

“Sweetheart, they weren’t bouncers. They were the hired security so the asshole called Robert didn’t attack you.”

“Oh shit!! I totally forgot about him.”

“That’s what I want to hear…that you don’t worry about him any more.”

A shiver passed through my spine at the thought of facing him or worse being kidnapped when I was in that drunken state. I tightened my hold around him sucking in the warmth from his body.

“What else did I tell you?”

“Well, you told me that you didn’t give a damn about who your real parents were and all you cared about was your aunt and Meg...” He paused looking at me in the dim light from the window and added, “And that once you save up enough money to have your aunt start her business, you would be free.”

“Free to do what?” I asked curiously.

“I asked you the same question and guess what your response was?”

“What?”

“You said you would be mine forever.”

“Really? This was the night after you told me about my twin?”

He nodded.

“I don’t believe you.” I rolled away from him in bed, but he was too quick to grab me back into his arms.