Page 16 of Now You See Him

“He’s the same Logan that went to high school with both of you,” Tina said as she crossed her arms over her chest. “I saw his yearbook at his parents’ house tonight when we were over there for dinner.”

“Shit,” Derrick said with a sigh. He propped his hands on his hips and hung his head. “I can’t believe that bastard is back in town. I’d really hoped it was someone different when you told me his name, but I knew I couldn’t be that lucky.”

Tina felt like she should defend him. He was, after all, someone that she’d chosen to spend the last six years of her life with, and Derrick’s judgment meant that she was the one with poor taste and questionable choices.

“I need to know what history you guys have, because Damien didn’t like it when we?—”

Derrick’s head jerked as he focused on her face, his eyes blazing. “When you did what?”

Tina had to fight a shiver. “I wanted to see if Damien was actually targeting Logan or me,” she said.

“I set out to seduce Logan. Damien didn’t like it when we kissed and I took off my top, so he flung my fiancé against the wall.

The hit knocked Logan unconscious. He has a broken arm because of it. ”

“Good.”

The word was said with such viciousness, Tina jerked back. “Why is it good ?”

Derrick’s expression didn’t change. “I don’t like that prick touching you. And if it’s the first time this has happened, I’m assuming it’s because you still aren’t fucking on a regular basis.”

The brief hint of possessiveness in his voice made her cheeks grow warm. “We aren’t. Derrick, this means Logan is involved. Or it means that your brother’s spirit is getting stronger.”

Derrick rubbed his hands up and down her arms. “Sweetheart?—”

“Tell me why you don’t like Logan,” Tina insisted. “Tell me why Damien doesn’t like him. I need to know.”

“Tina…”

“Derrick,” she said, her voice hardening.

He let out a long sigh, then his hands stroked down her arms. When they fell away, Tina shivered at the loss of contact.

“Logan dated the same girl from middle school through high school. Then they had a falling-out in senior year. She didn’t want to go to New York, and Logan did.

When their relationship ended, Lucia immediately started dating my brother.

Damien was…reckless. He hated Logan’s pompous rich-boy attitude, and he did it in part because he wanted to fuck with Logan, but also because he’d always had a thing for Lucia. ”

“Lucia as in…as in Damien’s ex-wife?”

“Yeah,” Derrick said.

Tina would’ve collapsed if Derrick hadn’t wrapped his arms around her waist and let her lean against his chest. Her knees were weak, and she felt lightheaded.

Her fiancé was living in the very house that his high school sweetheart lived in.

He had to know. Of course he knew. Why else would he have such strong feelings about living there?

Why else would he throw tantrum after tantrum?

What she didn’t understand was why Logan didn’t just tell her about Lucia?

“So, what, Logan and Damien had a fight over a girl?”

There was a long pause as Derrick stroked a hand up and down her back.

“It’s more than that. Logan got my brother kicked off the football team.

He set up this whole elaborate lie where he planted drugs in Damien’s locker so it looked like he was dealing.

My twin was going to play college ball at Penn State, but after Logan’s prank, Penn State pulled out. ”

“Oh my god.” Knowing that Logan was capable of such cruelty was more terrifying than the thought of a ghost in her home. This was someone’s future, someone’s life that her fiancé ruined. Then he’d just picked up and moved to New York as if he were this charming country boy taking on the big city.

“What happened to Lucia?”

“She got what she wanted, too,” Derrick said. “A husband, a home, and life in the small town that she loved.”

Tina didn’t say anything. She wasn’t sure how to respond to that. Instead, she wrapped her arms around Derrick’s waist and pulled him closer.

“Are you okay?” he murmured; his lips pressed against her hair.

She nodded and buried her nose against his flannel, smelling the fresh, clean scent of his soap and skin.

He gave her comfort that she never needed or wanted from a man before.

She’d always been so self-sufficient that it genuinely confused her when her colleagues or friends talked about getting support from a partner.

She understood it now even though Derrick was technically not her partner.

He wasn’t here anything. Well, maybe her obsession but that was it.

“I hate that all of this happened, but I feel like this could probably explain why your brother feels a certain way about Logan in the house,” Tina finally said. “Maybe the dreams and the sex are a way to get back at him.”

“It could be. I have this strange sense that there’s something more to the story.”

“What more could there be?” Tina asked.

“I don’t know.” Derrick’s strokes grew firmer until Tina felt like he was massaging the tense muscles in her shoulders and lower back. “You’re going to have to relax, sweetheart. We still have some digging before you tell Logan.”

“I don’t know if I can,” Tina whimpered. How was she supposed to go into Logan’s room now with the knowledge that she’d just been given?

“You can,” Derrick said. There was that edge again; the serrated blade of his tone had her looking up at him. There was a glint in his eyes, and she immediately felt her body respond.

Derrick’s eyes remained locked on hers as he gripped her shoulders, massaged them for a second, and then pushed down. Her knees buckled, and she lowered to the floor.

“You’ll have to be quick, okay?”

Tina nodded, eager for him. It was as if he’d flipped a switch inside her and now all she wanted, all she needed, was his cock in her mouth.

It was embarrassing how wet she became so quickly.

How she knew that the stress, the tension of not seeing him for so long, of hiding the truth from her fiancé, of watching Logan get hurt, could all go away because of this man.

Derrick unbuckled his belt and quickly unzipped his fly. He was already visibly hard, thick, and long. It would hurt, hitting the back of her throat the way that Damien had fucked her mouth in the basement.

She wanted that hurt so bad.

“Take it out,” he said.

Her fingers trembled, but she lowered the band of his briefs and gripped his cock in her hands. With her eyes locked on Derrick’s, she leaned forward and licked the tip where the bead of pre-cum had already formed. He twisted in her palms, hardening even further.

Tina didn’t ask for permission. Rising taller on her knees, wrapped her lips around his cock head and sucked him inside as far as she could.

With tongue and lips working overtime, she also used both of her hands to stroke him up and down as he guided her head.

His fingers dug in her hair, sometimes brutally yanking her head back and forth to set the pace until he was hitting the back of her throat and making her gag and drool all over him.

For a moment, minutes, hours, centuries, her concern and guilt for a man she didn’t love no longer flickered like an errant thought in her mind.

She was too busy getting her mouth fucked by a man who knew exactly what she needed and wasn’t afraid to give it to her.

She reveled in the sound of his moan, of his dirty words as he called her his slut and murmured in excruciating detail how he planned on taking her cunt.

Her hand slipped into the band of her panties, and she flicked her clit vigorously.

When she looked up and met Derrick’s eyes, she saw the same hardness she’d come to expect with his brother, but there was also real affection there that only the twin who was living could give her.

“You’re my little slut, right sweetheart?” he crooned as his grip in her hair tightened. “My fuck hole.”

He knew exactly what to say to make her so wet that her arousal dripped over her fingers. She rubbed herself harder, sucked his dick as deep and hard as she could until both of them came at the same time on muffled cries and words of praise.

Later, after she cleaned up and Derrick kissed her despite her mouth tasting salty with his cum, she returned to Logan’s room and curled up on the chair at his bedside while he slept.