The Doctor's Twin Trouble (Even More Babies) by Layla Valentine

Author:Layla Valentine [Valentine, Layla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-11-22T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

SHAUN

Shaun grabbed the pile of Chloe’s clothes from the kitchen floor and thrust them at her. “Pantry,” he snapped.

Her eyes widened and she disappeared into the pantry. Shaun hoped she understood that he wasn’t angry with her—he had only been trying to protect her from being seen by whoever was about to come through the door.

No one was supposed to have a key to this place—but he had a sneaking suspicion he knew who this was going to be, all the same.

He barely had time to tug his own pants on before the door was thrown open. There stood his younger brother, Matt.

“Shaun!” Matt strode in without waiting for an invitation. “What’s going on? Why don’t you have a shirt on?”

“Why are you in my house?” Shaun countered.

“A guy can’t come to visit his big brother?”

“A guy can’t just show up, no.”

“Well, I did try to text you,” Matt said. “I’ve been texting you for weeks, and you haven’t answered. Can you blame me for worrying?”

This was entirely disingenuous, Shaun felt. “You weren’t worried about me,” he said. “And you should know why I wasn’t texting you back, Matt. You never contact me unless you want something.”

Matt didn’t even bother to deny that. “I just need a place to crash for a few weeks,” he said.

“You get evicted again?”

“You make it sound so dramatic.”

“Well, did you?”

“I mean, I guess it depends on what you mean by evicted.”

“Come on, Matt. You know what evicted means. Were you kicked out of your apartment?”

“I mean—it wasn’t my fault.”

Of course it wasn’t. “What happened?”

“The landlord said I’d been smoking inside.”

“And had you been?”

“Maybe,” Matt said. “Honestly, though, there was no reason to make such a big deal out of it. But he said I was in violation of my lease, and he kicked me out. Not even a warning!”

Shaun sighed. “Where have you been staying since then?”

“At Sebastian’s. You remember my buddy Sebastian, right?”

“Oh, I remember Sebastian.” Matt had been friends with Sebastian since high school, and the two of them had simply never outgrown each other. They’d never really outgrown anything else either. Shaun had spent the last fifteen years waiting for his brother to grow up, and it just never seemed to happen. “So why can’t you keep staying with him?”

“I can’t impose on him,” Matt said.

“Really?” Shaun asked dubiously. Matt wasn’t the sort to care about being an imposition.

“Well, his girlfriend said I couldn’t hang around,” Matt said.

“Ah.” There it was.

“I know, right?” Matt said, as if no one could possibly help but be on his side after having heard that. “She said that if I was living there, I had to help pay the rent. I mean, it’s Sebastian’s place! It’s not up to her. And she crashes there all the time and I know she doesn’t pay. But he’s whipped. He just knuckled under and told me I had to go.”

“You didn’t consider getting a job and helping out with the rent?”

“I have a job,” Matt said irritably. “You know that.

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