But there wasn’t.
Wherever Ivy was, she wasn’t handcuffed or looked at like she was a criminal. No, she was probably pretending to be broken up about her husband sleeping with her sister. I’m sure she had everyone eating out of the palm of her hands.
As much as I wanted to focus all of my anger on my sister, I was brought back to reality when I was shoved into a cop car and separated from Stosh. I watched them putting him in a different vehicle. There was no way out of this mess now.
Stosh had been right all along. We should have just left. There wasn’t anything left for us in this town except jail time.
Once I was booked, they took me to a temporary holding cell. The particular area I was in was just for women. A couple girls, who looked my age, were in the same cell with me. I could tell from what they were wearing that they were prostitutes. They looked me up and down and started to talk to each other like I hadn’t even been there. I sat down on a bench and began to sob.
My life was messed up. I was pregnant and sitting in jail.
My life couldn’t get any more complicated.
At least, that was what I thought.
A couple hours after being there, a guard came over and led me to another room. I had hoped that I was being bailed out, until I saw my mother sitting at the table. I sat down across from her. “Hello, Mother.”
She looked so furious with me. “What do you have to say for yourself? Do you realize that you’ve made a mockery of this family?”
“It isn’t what you think.” How could she think that I could do something so wreckless? I’d always been the responsible one.
“It doesn’t even matter what I think. You kidnapped your sister and pretended to be her so that you could steal her husband. What kind of person would do such a terrible thing? What do you have to say for yourself?”
I shrugged and looked down at the table. People had carved all sorts of things in the wooden top. “I have nothing to say.”
She tapped her fingernails on the table. “I’m not leaving here until you explain to me why you felt it necessary to do the wreckless things that you’ve been up to?”
“I didn’t do anything that she didn’t deserve. He was mine first, Mom. She took him to spite me. She is a liar! Ivy started all of this.”
I was so angry at her for not listening to a word I was saying. I needed her support. “Your father and I have discussed your future with our family. We think it would be best if we gave you some money and sent you on your way. I think it’s best that you go back to where you were living and have a life there. “
I reached out for her hand, but she pulled away. “Mom, please. Don’t abandon me. I never did anything wrong. I’m the one who is being taken advantage of, not Ivy!”
She shook her head and began to rub her temples like she did when she was frustrated. “I just don’t know where we went wrong with you. We gave you everything you could possibly ask for. You went to a good college. What could your sister possibly have done to make you this bitter toward her? Do you have any idea how much her marriage means to her?”
“Mom, you’re not listening to me. Ivy isn’t the person you think she is. She’s manipulative and out to destroy me. She doesn’t love Stosh. Did you see what she did to his head? She could have killed him.”
My mother stood up. “Enough!” She leaned in, but didn’t sit back down. “Willow, I came here today to try to reason with you, but you’ve left me with no other options. I am not posting your bail, because I feel that the best place for you is in here. If and when you do get out, I’d appreciate it if you left town quietly and you stayed away from Stoshua. He doesn’t need to be involved with you. Am I making myself clear?”
I was sobbing. My own mother was giving up on me. I couldn’t believe it. I looked right up at her and gritted my teeth together as I talked. “I will not give up Stosh! We are in love and nothing you could possibly do would change that.”
“We’ll just see about that.” She waved for the guard and left me sitting there. I felt abandoned. It was disastrous to think that I was sitting in jail while the real psycho was out planning her next path of destruction. I knew what she was going to do next and there was nothing I could do about it.
I spent the night sleeping in a ball on a small cot. The mattress was probably just as hard as the cement floor below it. I tossed and turned and cried most of the night.
For someone that had never been in trouble for anything, having a criminal record just didn’t sit well with me.
Still, with both of us behind bars, I highly doubted that some guardian angel was going to swoop in and save the day. I was shit out of luck.
My arraignment was horrible. Not only did my parents attend, but my sister was right there with them. I pleaded not guilty.
Sure, I’d held her against her will, but she’d done just as bad of things to me and was still walking around.
I saw her smiling when they walked me back to jail. I thought my mother was going to bail me out, but I had no such luck. She hadn’t had a change of heart and with my psychopath twin standing next to her, I knew I didn’t have a chance in Hell at ever being free.
I spent my second night in a cell without sleep. I couldn’t understand how I had let myself get so consumed in this plan of mine. Stosh had been right to worry. I was exactly where he’d said I’d be.
I missed my old, carefree, life. I missed my friends and the job that I had to give up.
When people are at their record low, they must consider a lot of things, because that is exactly what I started to do. I considered telling my mom that I would give up Stosh. I could leave town and somehow move on.
Anything was better than a term in a place like I was currently in. I wanted to be free. My baby couldn’t be born behind bars. He or she deserved a chance at a good life. I deserved that chance too.
Leaving Stosh would be the hardest thing that I would ever have to do. He’d never stop looking for me. I knew that now. There was no way he was going to give up on me. The more I tried to reason with myself, the more upset I became. The only way out of this jail cell was to leave my heart behind.
I didn’t know if it was even possible, or if I really wanted to try. So many people had been hurt. So many hearts were broken. Even though I wasn’t directly the main cause, I still played a part in it. I hated myself for it.
At least I didn’t have much longer to talk myself out of loving Stosh.
I made bail that evening. Without knowing who had come to my rescue, I grabbed my personal belongings and headed out to meet whoever it was. Stoshua was standing there waiting for me. He had a bouquet of flowers in his hand and looked like he hadn’t slept in a week.
I ran up and threw my arms around him. “Thank you!”
He pushed me away and gave me a once over, before pu
lling me back into his strong arms. “I’m so glad you’re okay. You can’t imagine how worried I was.”
“It wasn’t like I was in the penitentiary. I didn’t get gang raped or anything.” Maybe sarcasm wasn’t appropriate, but I was just trying to add a little light to my messed up situation. “When did you get out?”
“Last night. Your parents came and talked to mine. They tried to sit me down and tell me that I wasn’t to have any kind of contact with you. They told me that if I bailed you out, I wouldn’t have a job.”
We’d started walking toward the car. It was dark out, but the smell of fresh air filled my nostrils. “Stosh, I’m so sorry. I never meant to cause this much harm to your life.”
He wrapped his arm around me and pulled me close to kiss the side of my head. “Don’t even say that. This is where you belong. They might have blinders on right now, but I have a plan to make this all go away.”
I stopped walking. “What kind of plan?”
He grabbed my hand and started pulling me along. “Trust me, Will.”
I did trust him. In fact, he was the only person in the world that I could trust. “Okay.”
He opened the car door for me and drove me to a drive thru, so I could fill my empty stomach. “I need to get you filled up. When we get home you can take your vitamins and start feeling better. You look pale, babe.”
“I’m fine. I didn’t like the food they served and my stomach was too knotted to think about being hungry.”
“I’m so sorry this happened to you.” He looked sad as we waited for our food.
“It happened to both of us.”
Stosh reached over and massaged my leg. “I won’t stop until we nail that bitch to the wall. I promise you that, Willow. She’s going to pay for this.”
I smiled. “Thanks for loving me.”
“Thanks for loving me back.”
We ate our food like two heathens. I don’t even know if we spoke while we stuffed our faces with greasy goodness. After we were done, Stosh started driving us back to his place. I was a little worried about being there, until he pulled into the main house and parked the car in the garage. “They won’t know we’re here.” He clicked a button and the garage door closed. Then he reached out for my hand. “A large bubble bath awaits you.”
The idea of soaking my troubles away sounded like heaven. “Lead the way!”
At that moment, I didn’t care what the next day would bring. I didn’t care about what my sister was doing or who she was planning on screwing over next. All I cared about was getting into a nice bubbly tub and feeling the touch of the man I loved. He’d come to my rescue and claimed he had a way to make everything better. As much as I wanted to know the details, I also wanted him to know that I trusted him completely. Whatever his idea was, I just hoped it worked, because spending another second without him was never going to be an option for me.
I was too in love to let him go.
Chapter 22
Wet and hot.
I was so exhausted, but Stosh insisted on pampering me in the tub. Far be it from me to deny the man something that made him happy. Since I’d never been in the main house, I took a tour before we retired to the bathroom. The house was beautiful and it was a shame that it wasn’t occupied year round. It had six bedrooms and five bathrooms. It also had a full finished basement with a home theater room in it. The owner collected old arcade games and had a wall in the basement designated for them.
Of course, I had to stop and play Pac Man. I used to love playing that game with my parents when I was little. Stosh was no match for me. I got four levels past his high score on my first attempt.
Feeling defeated, I could tell he was ready to get upstairs. He kissed me on the cheek and told me to follow the music. I finished out one more game before I turned everything off and started making my way up two flights of stairs.
Soft music was playing from the far end of the hallway. I had to laugh just thinking of Stosh trying to be romantic. Even though we were both grown ups, my mind always reverted back to being in high school, where we shared a love of pizza and horror movies.
I walked into a candle lit room. Stosh was already in the tub, laying back with his eyes closed. I leaned against the doorframe and admired how handsome he was. His face had stubble from not having time to shave, but I liked it. It made him look more distinguished.
Since he was in the tub and I was just standing there, I knew that every second I wasted was another second that we could be enjoying those bubbles together. Without further ado, I started removing my clothes. Stosh heard me and opened his eyes. I liked having him watch me. I smiled as I removed my bra and panties and walked over to the edge of the tub. The water was nice. In fact, it was the perfect temperature. I took my time climbing in, on account of not wanting to slip and bust my ass.
He smiled when I sat down in front of him and leaned my back up against his chest. Nothing could have been more comfortable than being in that position after sleeping in a jail the night before. “I missed you.” My finger wet his arms that were wrapped around me.
“I missed you, too.”
“It will be nice when we have our own place to be able to enjoy things like this whenever we want.” It would be nice to not have to hide from my lunatic sister and her obsessive boyfriend. God only knew what they were planning on doing to me next. I wouldn’t be surprised if I was carjacked and left for dead on the side of the road with a bullet in my gut.
“If everything goes the way I plan, we could stay here and raise the baby.”
I turned around and looked right at him. “How the hell would that ever be possible?”
He kissed me quickly and pulled away smiling. “You’ll find out soon enough. I don’t want to get your hopes up, but it is possible. I promise.”
“And I’m supposed to trust you?” I teased.
“Yeah, you are!”
I leaned back against his chest and closed my eyes. “I do trust you, Stosh.”
He ran his wet hands up and down my arms. “Good, because I was going to kiss you until you did.”
“It’s not a threat when it’s something I enjoy.”
“Maybe I enjoy it, too.” He ran his hands under my breasts and then over my nipples. I sat up so I could feel the cold air and his hot, wet hands at the same time. My nipples hardened and I didn’t want him to stop. He took one hand and ran it down my abdomen until it was between my legs. Under the water, he began to rub on my sweet spot. I felt his finger penetrating inside of me and I loved the way it felt. As his finger went in and out, the water began to splash as he continued pleasing me. I leaned my head back against his chest and succumbed to an orgasmic release. Once he pulled it back out of me, and left me trembling, I turned around and kissed him slowly, savoring his tongue as it glided back and forth against mine.
He g
rabbed my hair and pulled it up, away from my neck. Then, like a vampire would, he sunk his teeth against it and bit down lightly. I backed away, but wanted him to do it again. I matched his movements, by doing the same thing to his neck. He grabbed my hair harder and pulled back again. “Straddle me, Willow. I need to be inside of you, right now. My dick is on fire for you, babe.”
I reached down and felt his erection. It made me moan and I couldn’t wait for it to slide inside of me. All I wanted was to be filled by this man. I wanted to feel the friction as he entered me with his length.
It wasn’t just the sex I needed. I craved his touch, more than ever before. Stosh was my kryptonite and without him I knew I wouldn’t want to breathe. He made my dark night seem like a bright day and my heart finally feel full.
I lifted my body up enough to position him perfectly. While sitting back down, I felt him filling me. My hands wrapped around his neck and I began moving at a good and steady speed. We kissed again, sharing our tongues before our lips made contact. Every slip of his muscle sent tingles over my skin. “You like it don’t you?”
I bit down on my lip and nodded as I looked him in the eyes.
“Fuck me harder, Willow. Ride me like you want to win that race. Rock that pussy for me, babe. Show me how you come. Tell me how good my dick makes you feel.”
Hearing him say those kind of things was so hot. “It feels so good. Don’t stop talking.”
He pulled my hair again and licked my neck. His lips lingered on my skin. “Oh yeah, your hot pussy feels so tight. You like it when it hurts don’t you?”
I nodded again, still unable to speak words out of my mouth. I was too busy moaning.
“Tighten that pussy for me. Squeeze me out, babe. Show me how you come.”
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