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the past few weeks she couldn’t summon the strength to show her son how much she loved him like she used to every day of his life, before his father came back into their lives. God, just getting out of bed and continuing her routine was exhausting. It had taken her next door neighbor to stress how easily Mac could take Miles away from her. Tara, Mac’s fiancée, would love for that to happen. She was a kindergarten teacher, and Jolie cleaned houses for a living. It was easy to see whose side the court would take. Well, they’d have to find out about her son’s existence first.
    Yup, her life had turned to shit and it was all her fault. She should never have loved Mackenzie Masters as much as she did, as much as she did now.
    Jase grabbed her arm and shook her. “Jolie, I’m talking to you!”
    She turned to her twin brother. She’d seen him the previous summer and he looked nothing like he did now. His skin looked yellow and he was skin and bones and so weak and always so tired, the doctor thought it best that he stayed in hospital. Well, it looked like his life had turned to shit too. Both twenty-three years old, one with liver disease and the other pregnant with her second child by an asshole who enjoyed abandoning her, but it was still great to have her twin around. Ever since he graduated high school he spent all his summers with her and Miles and she loved having him. It made her less homesick having him around. Unlike him no one else in her family bothered to contact her, not even her mother besides the occasional letters.
    “What do you want me to say?” she answered with a dry laugh.
    “How the hell did it happen and don’t give me the birds and the bees shit,” he whizzed. The stress from her life was exerting him too much.
    She placed her hand over his and pulled her lips in a smile, though she knew he’d notice it was insincere. “Don’t worry about my problems. We need to figure out how to help you.” She turned to the doctor. “How can I be compatible when we have different fathers?”
    The day her father announced he was grateful he hadn’t sired a whore was still fresh in her mind, his angry voice ringing in her ears. That day, she learnt why her father hated her and that twins could actually have different fathers.
    The doctor’s brows furrowed forming a deep V. He looked at Jase then back at Jolie, understanding finally setting in. She was glad she didn’t blush from embarrassment ‘cause seriously being knocked up again by a husband who didn’t give a shit about her seemed less embarrassing than admitting she was a bastard. The last time she bothered to think about the father topic was when the man who raised her put her in the hospital. She’d come so close to losing Miles, all because of him. He was the last person she ever wanted to talk about.
    “Mrs. Masters, you and Mr. Simmons are full siblings—same mother and father .”
    The first thing she thought was would she have to change her name from Masters back to Simmons once she was divorced? And then the part about having the same parents sank in next. It didn’t make sense. Then why did her father hate her so much?
    Jase patted her hand. “Don’t think about that right now. Tell me how he knocked you up again.”
    Jolie sighed. Jase was like a dog with a bone and he wasn’t going to let it go. “My cleaning company was hired to clean a house after furniture had been moved in. I and a few other girls got that assignment. I went in late ‘cause Miles’s ride to preschool was late, so I stayed last to finish up. When I was in the den, someone walked into the house and went upstairs. At first I thought I should call the cops, because there are so many psychos out there, but then I thought what if it’s the owner. So I went up to check and he was there and...it kind of just happened.”
    The memory of seeing him standing in the middle of the master bedroom with just a towel around his waist was still sharp. Reason had flown