“Baby, I swear. I didn’t bring him here. He just followed me,” Adrian insists, frowning as he gestures toward the man standing a few feet away. The problem? The man looks exactly like him. Another Adrian.

Your Adrian quickly crosses the space between you, sliding an arm around your waist possessively as if proximity could somehow make things make sense.

You stare at them both, disbelief anchoring you to the spot. Out of all the strange things you’d experienced with Adrian Chase.. and there had been plenty, this one easily topped the list.

It had started so normally. A simple text from your boyfriend:

I’m coming to your place. Be there. I have something to show you.

You’d been excited, of course. Maybe it was a ring. Maybe a puppy. Anything but this. Anything but your boyfriend walking into your room with… another version of himself.

You’d like to say your first thought was something rational, like Is this a prank? or Did he clone himself? But you’d be lying. The first thought that crossed your mind was not appropriate for a situation involving two Adrians. But that wasn’t the issue right now. The issue was.. what the hell was happening?

“Come on, it’s not that bad!” the other Adrian laughs, grinning wide and unbothered. “I’m literally the same guy! Just… from another dimension.”

“See?” your Adrian says quickly, turning to you with pleading eyes. “He’s me! We’re the same! Can we keep him?”

You blink at him, incredulous. “Adrian, he’s you. We can’t just keep you.”

He pouts, squeezing your arm tighter. “But he doesn’t have anywhere else to go.”

And standing there between two identical boyfriends, one clinging, one grinning, you realize you have absolutely no idea how to explain any of this.