Her mother was deeply in love with him, but he slept with other women behind her back. So while he pretended to love his family in photos (image was everything), Lynn knew his indiscretions and glared at him in those pictures.

But now he attacked her for hating men and turning to women.

"Dad, you were my world. I looked up to you. You were caring and supportive. I thought you loved my mother."

He smacked her and turned to her girlfriend. "Cover your naked ass up and sit on the bed."

Frightened, she obliged, doing what he asked.

"Your mother is going to be disappointed when I tell her about this!"

"How do you know her mother?" Daisy, Lynn's mother, asked, entering the room. She dropped her purse on the floor, fuming. "And why is your neck bleeding?"

"Mama!" Lynn said, facing her. "Let me explain!"

"The only thing you need to explain is why your friend was between your thighs, pleasuring you."

Stunned, Daisy grabbed her daughter by the arm and yanked Lynn into her face. "You're gay?" Daisy's world exploded. Her heart, broken.

There was a secret she kept from Wilt, Lynn's father. One that she vowed never to tell him, and now she must because her daughter was in love with someone she could never be with.

"Explain yourself! As your mother I'll give you a chance to speak, defend yourself. And then I'm going to kick your ass. I'm going to beat that gay demon out of you! You won't so much as think of another girl."

"Daddy is cheating on you, Mama, and have for years!"

Rapidly blinking, Daisy slapped Wilt in the face, spitting on him. "I go to work twelve hours a day at a hospital I hate, just to pay the bills and your non-working ass stepping out on me?"

Daisy called her sister. She'd know what to do! She lived twelve miles away yet they never spent time together. Because Daisy worked six days a week, taking advantage of overtime hours. Getting while the getting is good. But being just a phone call away had it's advantages.

"Hey, Daisy! I was just about to call you."

"Listen, Mona!"

The color left Gene's face.

"How do you know my mother?"

Daisy stared at her, her mouth hanging open. "My sister Mona is your mother?"

Lowering his head in shame, he looked up with his eyes, a chill running down his spine. "You're Mona's daughter?"

Dropping the phone on the floor, Daisy faced her husband. "I never told you I had a sister. I said I was the only child, that my mother never had another child. Yet you asked was that Mona's daughter like you know her."

"Wilt?" Mona said with a collective gasp. "Baby, how do you know my sister, Daisy?"

Daisy snatched up the phone and said, "Baby? Why are you calling my husband baby? How do you know his name?"

"Bitch, Wilt is my man, the father of a daughter I can't seem to find right now. She's been gone for hours. That's unlike her."

Daisy attacked her husband, devastated. "You've been having an affair with my sister?"

Gene's mouth fell open in shock. "You're my father? You can't be serious!"

It dawned on Lynn that the woman her father was sleeping with behind her mother's back for nearly twenty years was her girlfriend's mother.

"No, no, no, hell no!" Lynn exploded, throwing her shoes at her father. "So the woman I walked in on you screwing, a secret I hid from Mama, for years, because I loved her enough not to hurt her, is my girlfriend's mother?"

Desperately, Gene rushed into Lynn's arms, kissing each other as if it was for the last time, trembling with the fear of losing a secret love they shared for the past few years.

"They're lying! They're playing a dirty trick on us! We can't be sisters!"

Lynn tried to cover Gene's mouth before she could say the word SISTER, but it was too late. That was all the confirmation she needed.

She slowly backed away from her, picking up the phone from the floor, her world shattered with her family photos laying in ruins on her bedroom floor.

"You and my father I will never forgive. Yes, I'm gay and was too afraid to make it public, but to be ripped away from Gene, the love of my life, because you screwed my father, a married man, and had his baby, my sister, a sister I never knew existed, I hope you both rot in hell!"

Mona was taken aback. "Your sister? You mean to tell me that the love of my life has been living a double life with my little sister? That ya'll are married, when I'm married to him as well?"

"You're a bigamist, Wilt" asked Daisy, openly sobbing, falling to her knees, weak in the knees. "You have a child outside of our marriage? With my sister? And y'all had that child in wedlock, behind my back?"

There was a loud banging on her front door and Lynn attempted to answer it.

Gene stepped in her path and hugged her once more. "Baby, this isn't real. You're not my sister. I never met my dad. Mama always told me, over the years, that he was in the military and did tours in different countries. Four years in Japan. Eight years in Germany. A tour in Iraq and Turkey. And Javonte, your dad and your dad only, doesn't fit the description of a military man and damn sure don't stand like a soldier."

The loud knocking increased.

Daisy was on her feet, staring at a niece she never knew she had, her cheating ass husband's daughter. Her sister's daughter.

The room was spinning.

She could hardly breathe...

"I don't understand. How did you and Mona meet? And why did she lie and say you were in the military? Negro, you never even watched a movie named Japan let alone been there. Your broke ass? Germany? Nigga, are you shitting me right now? The only Turkey you had was dead, seasoned and baked with homemade stuffing for Thanksgiving."

Now someone was kicking on the front door and Lynn pushed Gene away, reluctantly.

How was she going to cope with losing her sweetheart to DNA and genetics?

This had to be a dream. No, a nightmare. Any minute they were going to wake up and it'd all be some type of sick joke.

Yes, that's exactly what's going to happen.

That's how it's going to play out...

"We're blood, half-sisters. As much as I hate it we will never be ever again. This is bigger than one's sexuality or the weakness of our flesh. For years I've dreamed of having a sister. I never knew I actually had one. A girl from my class in high school, who I lost my virginity with is my sister. This is bittersweet for me. I'd rather have you for a sister than my lover."

"You don't mean that. I never wanted a sister. I'm glad I was my mother's only child! I'd rather have you as a lover, I have no room in my life for a damn sister. We're friends. Lovers. Snap out of it, Lynn! All the times we made love...You can just walk away from all that?"

Bitterly, crushed, destroyed, Lynn shook her head in the negative.

"You're my sister. Get it through your thick skull, baby, I meant Gene! We're over and done with, just like that. I can't live with myself if I stay with you, knowing now that you're my sister, and the woman I watched my dad cheating on my mom with over the years is your mother."

Lynn leaned in to kiss her, but she quickly pulled away.

It broke Gene's heart in two...

Lynn wiped away tears...