Page 85 of Savage Daddies

Felix Grayson.

Immediately, my hands flip to the next page, and holy fuck, it’s a report fromChild Protective Services.

(16th February 1985). Due to severe drug misuse, Mr. and Mrs. Grayson are unable to take care of twin sons. Felix and Blazer Grayson have been taken off parents this afternoon, and will be put into the foster system. We hope to find homes for them ASAP. Mitch Hazel-Lewis has advised homing them separately to increase chances of adoption.

“I was wondering how long it would take you to find that.”

I whip around.

The folder crashes to the floor.

Felix stands in the doorway with a neutral expression. And I don’t know how to feel.

“Long time no see,baby bro.”

“We’re twins,” I say. “We’re the same age.”

“Clearly, you didn’t finish reading the birth certificate. I have two minutes on you.”

Fucking just what I need.

He smiles and walks into the room, and I feel some of the tension in my shoulders dissolve.

I broke into his office and in extension of that, his life.

AndI slept with his wife.

Under the table, I close one of my hands into a fist. The other retrieves the folder from the ground.

“I don’t understand,” I say.

“What is there to understand?”

I cross my arms. “How do you know?Whendid you?—?”

“When the pap captured you enjoying alone time with my wife.” He stares blankly at me. “I did some digging and traced your passport information. You’re tricky to find, aren’t you? Prefer an off-the-grid lifestyle away from people and cameras. Now I know why.”

“Felix—”

“How low can you go?”

All the way to the floor,I feel like saying, to lighten up the mood and take a page out of Wrangler’s book.

But I’m not sure where this conversation’s heading.

Felix walks into the office and stands over me, hands on hips until it becomes obvious that I’m in his chair.

I move aside and let him sit. Venom Vultures, over the years, has thickened my skin and taught me to stand my ground, even if I’m in the wrong, but in Felix’s presence, I struggle. My posture slackens, and my intestines knot together.

He’s the one person who understands. The one person who gets me.

And he just so happens to be my brother.

Felix Fernando is his stage name, but I know him as Grayson.

It appears webothran away from our childhoods and changed our names as soon as we got the chance…

“I’m hoping that will be the last of that,” he says.

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