President’s Twins: Buy One, Get One Free

“So they did bring me dinner. Why can’t he tell me that? What a weirdo.”

Benjamin twitched his lips in disgust and mumbled. Looking at the food on the table, his heart felt warm.

The colour of the night covered Nanking city. The lights in the city became the stars in the night skies.

Hayden walked out of her bathroom after a shower. She stopped the moment she saw the person in her room.

“Damn, why didn’t I lock the door?”

Too many things happened in one day. Hayden was exhausted, so she headed into the shower once she got into her room. Hayden totally forgot about locking the door.

“What are you doing here?”

Joseph was sitting on the couch near the balcony. He was holding a book Hayden was reading before bed. It was A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. Joseph raised his head when he heard Hayden’s question. He closed the book and dodged her question.

“What a good book to read before bed.”

“You’re overthinking. I read it because I could easily fall asleep reading it.” Hayden kept her arms crossed and kept her distance from Joseph. The safe distance Hayden took was the width of a bed.

“Instead of looking at what I read before bed, you should be knocking on Benjamin’s door before he falls asleep, or you’re going to squeeze into Noah’s bed again.”

Joseph frowned, “I haven’t showered yet.”

“Then go shower. There’s a bathroom outside.”

“The showerhead was broken. The water won’t come out.”

“That’s impossible.”

Hayden glared at him.

“Go and see for yourself.” Joseph didn’t argue at all. He put the book aside and stood up.

“Let’s go.”

lived here for so many days, and she would use the guest bathroom once

minutes, Hayden frowned as she held the broken

lying.” Joseph’s voice rose from

Take a shower in my bathroom and

back in place, “Remember to call the management office

“Alright.”

of the water tank, and there was a cunning look

was quiet in the master bedroom. Hayden was reading the Brief History of Time on the couch. There wasn’t any noise in the room other than the sound of gushing

a bore to Hayden, and she started to doze off. Hayden picked a medical book from the shelf, hoping to refresh what

she saw the notes she made in the

accident, she would have been

in the hallway came through from the crack of the door. A kid’s

“Mommy…”

her head and saw Stella looking at her in strawberry-pink pyjamas. Stella’s eyes blinked

“Stella?”

“Why you

Hayden, but there was tiredness in

tired, but mommy, I

dream about me taking you to the funfair, and you want me to do the same if you’re

lips, “No, this is much

“What’s wrong?”

Uncle Joseph today. He wanted Uncle Magnus to look for

“What are

best to listen to the conversation, but she wasn’t able to memorize it all. Stella could only recall bits and pieces from what Joseph and Magnus said this afternoon. Stella thought it might be significant and related to Hayden, so she kept reminding

back from work late, and Stella was already asleep by

after hearing what Stella told her. Hayden

Hayden was the girl whom he slept with six years ago. What should Hayden

water from the bathroom

hand wiped away the vapour on the mirror, and the reflection of his face showed in it. Every feature on his face