All Chapters of Falling For The Wrong Twin: Chapter 21 - Chapter 24

By Monday morning, the photograph had become impossible to ignore. I had enlarged it so many times that the image had begun to lose its clarity, but the timestamp remained visible in the corner. 11:43 p.m. Ashton had been standing outside the Carter house on the night their mother disappeared, exactly as the anonymous message had claimed. The problem was that Ashton insisted he had no memory of being there, and I believed him enough to know that his uncertainty wasn't an act. What frightened me was that someone else seemed to remember that night very clearly, and they were determined to make sure I discovered it one piece at a time.I spent most of the morning avoiding both brothers. It wasn't because I wanted distance from Ashton, although part of me knew I needed to think without his presence influencing me. It was because I was beginning to understand how dangerous it was to stand between two people who had spent years protecting different versions of the same secret. Ev

The first thing I noticed when I woke up was that Ashton Carter had stolen all the blankets.The second was that he was watching me.He lay on his side with one arm tucked beneath his pillow and the other resting across my waist, his dark hair falling messily over his forehead. Morning sunlight slipped through the curtains, illuminating the sharp lines of his face and the faint smile playing around his mouth. He looked entirely too pleased with himself for a man who had spent most of the night making it impossible for me to sleep.I narrowed my eyes at him. "Why are you staring at me?""Because you're beautiful."The answer came so easily that I almost distrusted it. Ashton had never been the sort of man who scattered compliments carelessly, and perhaps that was why the simplest ones affected me more than they should. When he told me I was beautiful, I believed him, not because I needed him to make me feel that way but because he looked at me as though he had discovered something prec