Unpublished Excerpt: The Virgin Billionaire and the Evil Twin

Earlier this week, I pubbed and excerpt from The Virgin Billionaire and the Evil Twin from an excerpt that's already been released. And now here's one that hasn't been released anywhere else but here.

Chapter Five

When the phone rang, Luis thought it was Jase calling from Alaska. He was just getting out of the bathtub and there were still suds on his body from the bubble bath he'd used. He rarely took bubble baths because he never had enough time to indulge himself. But with Jase and Hunter in Alaska visiting Jase's family, Luis had decided to pamper himself a little that night. He'd been hoping a nice hot bath would calm his nerves a little, too. His stomach had been turning since his twin brother, Eddie, who now referred to himself as Gage Weston, stormed out of the house earlier that afternoon, leaving them with unfinished business once again.

Luis reached for the phone he'd placed on the marble vanity in the bathroom in case Jase called and said hello. He grabbed a thick white towel with his other hand and started patting a mound of bubbles between his smooth, wet legs. He was hoping it would be Jase and they could have phone sex. He felt sexy standing there naked with bubbles dripping down his body.

But it was a bad connection and Luis had to ask twice, "Who is this?"

"I said, it's your brother, asshole."

"Eddie," Luis said. "Is that you? Where are you? We have a bad connection and I can hardly hear you." He wiped a few bubbles on his ass and set the towel on the marble vanity. The minute he knew it was his twin brother, he'd stopped feeling sexy.

"I need to see you tonight," Gage said. Though the connection was terrible, Luis picked up a hint of panic in his brother's voice.

"I just stepped out of the bath tub," Luis said. "I'm dripping in bubbles and I was just going to go to bed. Can't this wait until tomorrow?" The last thing Luis wanted that night was another bad scene with his brother.

"It can't wait," Gage said. "I need you to come to my apartment. Be there by midnight."

"Are you in some kind of trouble?" Luis asked.

"I don't want to get into it on the phone," Gage said. "Just be at my door by midnight." Then Gage rattled off his Brooklyn address and said he'd be waiting for him inside the grocery store.

"I can't come to Brooklyn at this hour," Luis said. "I never go to neighborhoods like that at this hour." He knew he was being vicious with that comment. If it had been anyone else calling, Luis wouldn't have thought twice about going to Brooklyn. He had good friends in Brooklyn; he loved Brooklyn. But he wanted to hurt Gage's feelings and he wasn't even sure why. They'd been this way with each other all their lives, constantly competing, always trying to hurt each other. Now that Luis knew his twin brother couldn't even begin to compete with him financially, Luis took advantage of the opportunity to make him feel like a failure.

"What's the matter, Mrs. Virgin Billionaire?" Gage asked. "Are you too good to come to Brooklyn? Are you too important to socialize with peasants like me?"