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“Are you sure?” It had never even dawned on me that that might be a possibility. Now that it had, I couldn’t let it go. One simple denial wasn’t going to cut it.
“Yes,” he stated firmly.
“How? How can you be sure?”
“My mom said that your blood type is O—”
“So?” My blood type was O but I didn’t see why that would make a difference.
“My dad’s was AB.”
I stared at him for a second.
“He can only have children with either A or B in their blood type.”
Oh thank God. I reclined back in my chair as relief replaced the adrenaline that had been shooting through me.
“And also, he was gay.”
I sat back up and turned to look at him, sure that I’d heard him wrong because my mind was still in freak-out mode. “He was what?”
“Gay.”
“How do you know that?”
“My mom told me the day we got here.”
“She knew?”
“She said she found out when I was about ten.”
So many questions were swirling around in my crowded brain. “Wait. What? Why did they stay married?”
Cash let out a slow exhale. “For me. They planned on getting a divorce after I graduated from high school. But when I did my dad got sick.”
“And your mom stayed and took care of him.”
“Yeah.”
That actually did make sense. I might not know Colleen that well, but I knew that there was no way she would ever leave someone who needed her.
“Wow.” That was a lot of information for me to digest, I could only imagine what it was for him. “Are you okay?”
His stubble covered chin dipped in a nod. “It actually explains a lot. So many questions I had about my childhood got answered when she told me. I guess the truth does that. It shines a light on things you don’t understand.” He glanced over at me and I could tell that there was a significance to his statement but I was too busy puzzling together a timeline of events.
“So wait, you said that you started thinking that something might have happened between your dad and my mom when I told you about James not being my biological father, right?”
“Yes.”
“Why didn’t you say something?” That would have been information I needed to have. Especially since I was lusting after a man that could have been my brother.
“You had enough on your plate in the possible dads department.”
That might have been the case, but I felt like there was something he wasn’t telling me. And if anyone would know about that, it would be me. There was a lot that I wasn’t telling him. But since he’d been so open, maybe it was my turn.
I was building up the courage to bring up the night he brought me home from the wedding and ask if I’d said anything to him when the skies opened up and rain began pelting against the windshield and the wipers were barely able to clear them before what looked like a bucket poured down again. I sat quietly letting Cash concentrate on driving when lightning flashed in the sky and seconds later thunder crashed.
“I hate storms,” I admitted.
