Page 23 of Echoes of Temptation
Jax tosses me a beer and laughs.
“Was it this funny when I first found out?” Jax asks me.
I nod and take a swig of my beer.
“We share one Sub,” Steel says, smirking. “Why the sudden curiosity, boy? Interested?”
“Fuck no,” Colt laughs. “I’m not submitting to either of you fuckers. But you’re actual brothers. Isn’t that weird?”
“Why would it be weird?” Blaze asks. “I’m not fucking my brother and his dick comes nowhere near my ass. The closest our dicks get is when we’re both fucking a woman at the same time.”
“Wait, don’t they rub together between the barriers?”
“Jealous, brother?” Steel laughs. “There’s nothing more perfect than sharing a sub with my twin. Male or female. Is there, Blaze.”
“Woah,” Knox says, coming to a halt. “Am I interrupting? Why am I turned on? What did I come in here for again?”
“I can only think of one thing that could top that feeling, Steel,” Blaze says to his brother. “The moment we findour onetrue Sub. Whenever that person is tucked safely between us, that will be the most perfect moment.”
“I think I might be gay,” Jax says, causing us all to laugh. That fucker has a different woman in his bed every night.
“Me, too, brother,” Knox sighs, shaking his head. “Me, too.”
“Come on over, Little one, and tell us what you’ve found,” Steel chuckles.
All joking is pushed aside as Knox sits at the table and looks up.
“I got through the firewall,” he starts. “Madeline was born one minute and fifty-eight seconds before her twin sister, Madison. Their parents’ names are Alex and Olivia Ross. Alex Ross died of alcohol poisoning five years ago, but here’s the kicker. Olivia Ross is very much alive. I’ve found records of where she, her husband, and their daughter, Madison, have lived. Guys, Maddy was only one county away from the family that gave her up.”
“What does it say on the adoption papers?” Blackhawk asks.
“It says the mother willingly signed all her rights away and would signed a closed adoption form if they could be the ones to choose the family the child went to,” he says, reading from his screen. “It looks like they had three families picked out. Two who wouldn’t have been able to make it in time and the Burtons.”
“Is that legal?” I ask. “Can someone choose the family their child goes to?”
“Yes,” Knox answers. “But it’s called an open adoption. However, the file says that if she got to choose the family she wanted it to be a closed adoption. This means that the new parents would be able to know anything about the child’s family. They labeled the mother as deceased but didn’t state her name.”
“That’s fucked up,” Blackhawk says and I couldn’t agree more. “I have to go and take this bitch out to eat. We need a plan.”
“You need to say something to her that’s going to piss her off enough to make a trip back to Maddy after you leave,” Ghost says. “King, did you say her parents made it to the safehouse?”
“They did,” I answer. “Ma and Pops are up there with them.”
“Good. While Blackhawk is out with this woman, what was her name again, Knox?”
“Madison.”
“While Blackhawk is out with Madison,” Ghost continues. “We need to head to the house and place tracking devices inside every single car we find. She’s bound to use one of them. Then we simply follow from a distance. We’re going to get Maddy back, King.”
I don’t say anything. I don’t think I could if I wanted. My emotions are all over the place and my heart is fucking pissed at my brain. Even if I am able to rescue my beautiful woman, there’s a high chance that she won’t ever forgive me for how I acted.
Knox looks at me but I see no sympathy in his eyes.
Fuck.
“Let’s go,” Blackhawk says. “I know just what to say to make her angry. She’s probably using Maddy to gather information. I bet using Blackhawk was Maddy’s way to tell me that something isn’t right.”
“It wouldn’t have mattered,” I say. “The second we looked into her eyes we knew that woman wasn’t Madeline.”