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Blaine move quickly behind her. Donald shook his head to clear the intoxicating fog from his mind. Lindy had always had this effect on him and there was little he could do to change it now after all these years.
    Seeing her finger in Blaine’s face, he followed slowly.
    “What’s going on that's so important you can’t spend a few minutes talking to us,” Blaine asked. “Is it Adam?”
    Twice in the span of five minutes she whipped around, this time she placed her hand on her hips while staring between the two of them. “So you knew about Adam all this time?” Glaring, she stepped closer. “Stupid. That’s what I was, thinking you had no idea about him or Abe. I should have known better. Get the hell away from me.” She spun on her heels as Donald’s mind spun.
    “Abe?” Blaine asked before he could.
    “We just found out about Adam the other day, my youngest brother lives here and met him at a construction site. He noticed the resemblance and contacted everyone in the family,” Donald explained as he and Blaine lengthened their strides to keep up with her.
    Once again she stopped, stared at him and then Blaine. “So why didn’t you return my calls?”
    “Calls?” Blaine asked, frowning. “What calls? You left and we never heard from you. Never talked to you until a few minutes ago. When did you call?”
    “What number? My office?” Donald asked, ready to make some immediate terminations.
    She drew back with a frown of her own. “Office? You have an office?”
    “Yes.”
    Her cell beeped and she read the text in silence. “Look I have to go, we can finish this discussion another time –”
    “Is this about Adam?” Blaine asked again.
    “None of your business, move out the way,” she said as she pushed through them.
    Donald grabbed her arm, pulled her close. Her body met his with a slap, her breasts were pressed against his chest. He muffled a groan at the pleasure having her in his arms again.
    He gazed into her wide uncertain eyes and then at her full, sweet lips. It had been years. He was starved for a taste of her sweetness. Without care or thought of her reaction, he bent down and brushed his tongue against her lips. She gasped and he slid home. The warmth, the taste and the feel were old friends that he desperately wanted to spend more time with. Her arms wrapped around his neck pulling him close. Moaning he moved her a bit so that she felt his hunger for her.
    When had her arms left from around his neck, he wondered as she pushed against his chest, breaking their connection.
    Her chest heaved as she stared up at him. “No…no, not again.” She turned and moved away as if hell were dogging her footsteps.
    They caught up with her. “What’s wrong?” Donald asked.
    “Why? After all this time, why are you here now?” she snapped without slowing down.
    “I told you, we just found out about him. You never told us you were pregnant…” He stopped at the flash of surprise and then anger that crossed her face. He remembered that look and braced himself.
    “I called from Georgia after I left, quite a few times. I talked to your daddy, told him I needed to talk with you and that it was an emergency. Each time he promised to give you the message and the phone number I left with him. I called twice a week for a month. I was desperate. Mom wanted me to have an abortion and disowned me when I refused.” She swallowed hard but continued meeting his gaze. Pain, hurt and disappointment simmered beneath the surface.
    “So I was…pregnant and stuck in Backwater USA. Neither of you ever returned my calls, your dad promised to give you the messages, and after a while the number was changed to a private number. I had no way to contact you.” She stepped closer, pointing at him and then Blaine. “So either your father lied and he never gave you the messages, or you’re lying and acting like you didn’t know.”
    Heart pounding, Donald swallowed hard. Pop had never told him and he’d bet his next