I swivel on my heel and manage to get two steps when he speaks. “Wait! I’m not Logan. I’m his twin brother.”
I stop walking and turn back around. “What?”
I hear a snort from over my shoulder and realize Mitch has inched close enough to hear him. “You’re not the first guy to use the ‘I’m a twin bullshit’ before,” Mitch says with an eye roll.
“He’s not?” I whisper.
“It’s not me, I have a twin. I didn’t recognize you, I have short-term memory loss. I’m sorry I hit my head this morning and forgot we were dating,” Mitch says. “We’re not falling for it.”
“We?” Logan starts to smile and it’s that same sexy smirk I saw this morning after he made me come with his mouth in my kitchen. My heart wants to ache, but it’s just as confused as the rest of me at this point. “Is Logan dating you? Is this why he hasn’t been such a moody bitch lately? God, he tells me nothing anymore. Hold on.”
He pulls his phone out of his back pocket and starts punching stuff on the screen when the blonde speaks. “He really is a twin. Identical. I know because I threw a drink on Logan thinking it was Finn.”
“Finn…” I repeat the name but something else she said triggers something from my memory. “Was the drink gin?”
She smiles. “Gin and tonic. How’d you know?”
“Oh my God…Finn or Logan? Which one are you?” I hear Aspen’s voice and turn to see her standing behind Mitch now. “Because if you’re Logan, I will punch you.”
“Hey Aspy,” the guy holding his phone, who may or may not be Logan, says and then I hear someone say hello, and Finn’s eyes dart back to the screen of his phone. “Hey Logan. Do you know this pretty little thing right here?”
Finn turns his phone around and there, on the screen, is Logan. He looks at me through video chat and is as startled as I am. “Chloe? What’s going on?”
Mitch actually gasps. “Holy shit thereistwo of them.”
“Chloe, you didn’t know that? No one mentioned Finn and Logan are identical twins? Not Terra or Logan or anyone?” Aspen looks as baffled as I feel. “I can’t believe I didn’t mention it. Must be the baby brain.”
“Is there a third, that swings both ways?” Mitch asks with a grin as his eyes slide up and down Finn’s well-muscled body. Finn grins at him. “Sorry. Only two. I have an older brother, but he’s married and a total stick in the mud.”
“Damn,” Mitch says ruefully.
“Seriously, Chloe. What’s going on?” Logan prompts again.
“I was out with Aspen and Mitch, and I thought I saw you,” I mumble, now more than a little embarrassed. “Here with another woman.”
“You thought Finn was me,” Logan says and suddenly he grins wildly. “Did you throw a drink on him?”
“No.”
“Can you?” he says and Finn rolls his eyes. “It’s not too late.”
“Why don’t you tell me about what you two have been doing the last couple of nights instead,” Finn interjects. “Because it looks like Ma can stop lighting candles for her poor spinster son at mass now.”
“I guess I should have mentioned one of my brothers was my identical twin,” Logan says sheepishly. “I’m sorry. I forget we share a face sometimes.”
“See? Now you can stop getting mad at me when I forget to tell people,” Finn interjects.
“Oh God, I’m embarrassed. I’m sorry Finn had to bother you at work,” I say.
“Don’t worry about it. I’ll call you later,” Logan promises with a smile. “And I’ll apologize then for whatever my brother is going to say to you after he hangs up on me.”
“Oh, I’m not going to say anything, but I do hope she talks,” Finn says to his brother. “I need to knowallabout how you two know each other.”
“It’s not too late to throw a drink in his face, Chloe,” Logan says a second before Finn ends the video call.
“Sorry. Truly. I’m completely embarrassed,” I tell Finn as he slips his phone back in his pocket. “I don’t think there’s a more awkward way to meet someone’s family.”
“Probably not,” Finn agrees, still grinning. Now that I really look at him, I can see he’s not Logan. His smile is too casual. His eyes don’t hold the same intensity Logan’s usually do. “But no drinks lost their lives, so we’re good. And I’m very happy to meet you. But how did you meet Logan, is what I’m dying to know.”
