Not Us: Cash & Devin

Chapter 28

Cash's POV

I had just put the steak over top of the veggies and put it in the oven while Devin was working on her laptop and also looking at the bigger units three floors up that I was showing her. It had four bedrooms and a larger living room. It was basically a penthouse without being at the top of the building. Calen burst through the front door huffing and puffing, as Devin and I were in the kitchen looking at a specific unit in the building. We both stop and look at him. Devin is ready to do whatever he needs as am I. What the hell?

"I got them! I got the text!" What is he—The results! Oh shit! They're in!

"Hell yeah!" I shout, unable to erase the smile on my face. I've been stressing and biting my nails the last two weeks about this after he agreed to take the test. He even listened to the full story. How I found my dad's side of the family. However, after talking to two of my siblings and reaching out to my sperm donor, I didn't hear anything. Not shit.

My stepmom did call me though. Last week. I put her on speaker phone and let her know my fiancé was on the call with us, along with a boy we were trying to get guardianship for since his mom wouldn't sign over custody to us. She was very pleasant and let us know that she was in the process of divorcing my sperm donor. I was the eighth affair child she'd heard of, and she wanted nothing more to do with him. She also told us she wouldn't be surprised if there were more of us out there. I felt bad for her, but she sounded like she was on top of the world.

"I'm only in my fifties. I can still travel the world and find love. Don't worry about me." That's the kind of strength I hope to have when it comes to facing any situation.

She quickly shut her work laptop and closed out the blueprints, pushing the tablet over to Calen so he could pull up the email to see what it said. Giving him her full attention. I checked the timer on the oven. We had ten minutes left.

Okay.

Calen quickly logged into his email and clicked on the link where he could log in for him to be able to see his results. He looked at both of us before he read it. His face was impassive at first, then confused, then relieved, then excited.

"I have family," he breathed out as my heart shattered. I was happy he had a family. Of course, I was happy. But...at the same time, I couldn't be happy at all. I could feel my thoughts start to swirl around in my head.

He had other family and he was excited about it. He didn't want to stay with us. Why would he when there are people out there who are a part of him? Of course, he wants to get to know them. I'm a fucking idiot for letting myself get all excited.

He moved the tablet over for me to look at it and I didn't want to look. I didn't want to see who his new family was. I blinked back at the tears that were trying to come out. That shit wasn't happening. Not today. I looked out the window, trying to gather up the courage needed to know the name of the person I might be losing Calen to. I blinked and took a deep breath, grabbing the tablet off the countertop. Letting out the breath, I looked at who the matches were.

Siblings. All siblings. Fucking nine half-siblings. And a father.

Clearly as massive fucking piece of shit.

Fuck.

He had a dad, no matter how shitty he seemed with ten fucking kids. He was someone who could take care of him. I winced, trying to recover quickly and not let him see how much this hurt. And it did. It cut fucking deep.

"Look at my oldest sibling's name." He tapped on the screen.

Cash Johnston.

What?