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“No! I swear, I’m not lying. I would never hurtLindsay!”
“The same way you’d never hurt Laney?” Hunter said, cocking abrow.
Adam sank to his knees. “Please, you have to believe me. It was an accident,” he said, clasping his hands together like he was praying. “Why would Ieverwant to hurt my ownsister?”
“Because you loved her,” I saidsoftly.
His eyes snapped to mine. “What?”
“You loved her,” I repeated. “But it was more than that, wasn’t it? You were completely in love with her. It drove youcrazy.”
His chin wobbled. “How… how did you know that?” he asked, voice barely above awhisper.
“I didn’t know for sure. But I do now,” I said, lips curving upward in a humorless half-smile.
“Holy fuck,” Hunter muttered beside me. “You wereright.”
Adam shakily rose to his feet and held his palms out in front of his chest to shield himself from Hunter, who once again looked as if he were about to savagely beat him todeath.
“I… I didn’t mean it like that. I misspoke,” he said, words tumbling out a mile a minute. It was painfully obvious that he’d been caught out, but he was still trying to backtrack to save his ass. “Of course I loved her. She was my twin. I wasn’tinlove with her, though. Not in a romanticway.”
“Yes, you were. You just admitted it,” I said, giving him a scornful look. “So what happened? Did she reject you, and you were so angry you decided to killher?”
“You don’t know what you’re talking about,” he muttered, staring sullenly over ourshoulders.
Hunter folded his arms across his powerful chest. “She obviously does,” he said. “She’s figured you out, and it’s all over now, so you might as well talk. Unless you just want us to call the cops right now. Yourchoice.”
Adam minutely shook his head, and he lowered his eyes to his feet. “You wouldn’tunderstand.”
“Try me.” Hunter narrowed his eyes. “Tell me how you ended up falling in love with your own fuckingsister.”
“It’s not thatweird, you know. Ancient Egyptian royalty used to marry siblings to each other all the time,” Adammuttered.
“Oh, for fuck’s sake,” Hunter replied, lips twisting in a cold sneer. “That’s seriously gonna be your argument for your disgusting incestuous bullshit? AncientEgypt?”
“I’m just saying, I’m not the first person to dothis.”
“Tell me what happened,” I cut in. “Tell me how itstarted.”
Adam sighed. “It started because Lindsay was…. perfect. I loved her from the second I was old enough to know that love even existed,” he said, wiping his face with one hand. “She was so beautiful. So smart. SoLindsay.” He paused and looked at Hunter. “You know what I mean, right? You loved hertoo.”
Hunter folded his arms again. “Yeah, I did. But not likethat.”
Adam looked back at me. “I thought she felt the same. Shehadto. We were so close, and she was always acting out, too. I thought she was doing it to get my attention, because she was too scared to admit the truth,” Adam said. “I thought she saw me the same way as I did—as her otherhalf.”
“Why?” I asked. Nausea was rising in mythroat.
“Whynot?” he said, cheeks flushing. “We loved each other, we had everything in common, and we knew each other inside and out. We even had the same shitty parents who were hardly ever around to care about us. So we understood each other perfectly, and we fit together perfectly too. We belonged to eachother!”
“You know, it’s funny how I have the exact same shitty parents as you, but I managed to avoid falling in love with you or Lindsay,” Huntersaid.
Adam glared at him. “I knew you wouldn’tunderstand.”
I held up a hand to stop them from arguing. “How do you go from all-consuming love to pushing Lindsay off a building?” I asked, arching abrow.
“That’s not what happened,” Adam said, eyes glistening with emotion again. I couldn’t tell if they were real or crocodile tears. “I decided it was time to tell her how I felt, because she was going crazy and sleeping with these guys all over town. Even married ones. I knew I could calm her down and stop her from sabotaging her life, as long as she finally made the right choice and decided to be with me. I was willing to forgive everything she did. Even the bad stuff. It didn’t matter tome.”
“How generous of you,” Hunter muttered, voice laced withsarcasm.
