Page 27 of Grumpy Sunshine

The man was a detective.

Had to be.

“Who are you?”he asked.

“This one’s ‘daughter.’”I paused.“Though, I’d like to consider her more of an egg donor.She has made my sister’s and my life a living hell.She’s taken out loans in our names and not paid them back.She’s ruined our credit, and any possible chance to have even a simple bank account.A lot of that I reported, as well, but nothing has ever been done about it.When I say that she’s a mastermind, she is.Though, from what I overheard her say, the man that did the actual bank robbing was the flavor of the month for her.He died after getting a gunshot wound.”

“That’s a lie!”my mother cried, putting on her dramatic show.

I was already shaking my head.“I promise, you can look me up.”

Two officers came up, and I noticed that they looked very similar to each other.

Siblings.

Rawr.

They were both very sexy, but not as sexy as a certain someone…

“What are you doing?”my mother cried when one officer took her by the elbow.

“Going to take you somewhere so we can ask you some questions,” the officer replied.

The name on his upper chest read “A.Carter.”

“Ma’am,” the one next to me said.“If you’ll follow me.”

I did, not putting up a fight.

The older man that’d been with us followed, and I wound up in an office down a maze of hallways.

The sign on the door said “Chief Carter.”

Were they all related here?

“Sit down, ma’am,” the older gentleman said, though it wasn’t much of a suggestion and more of an order.

I sat and wrapped my arms around myself protectively.

I didn’t like police.

After the first time my mom had fucked up then blamed it on Silver, my sister, and me, I’d had an abhorrence for them.

The cops had taken my mom at her word and had arrested Silver and me for theft.

From that point on, we’d been very, very careful about what we did and how we did it.

We always, always shared our locations with each other.We made sure to have each other’s backs in anything and everything, and we emancipated ourselves at the age of sixteen.

My sister, Silver, and I weren’t twins.

Well, I mean, I guess technically we were.

But in reality, I was conceived ten days before Silver was, and both of us had different fathers.

How did we know this?

Because my mother was forced to get a DNA test after both fathers had denied their involvement with my mother.Doctors had performed some tests, and it showed that my mother had conceived us at different times with different men.

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