Back in the Burbs by Avery Flynn & Tracy Wolff

Author:Avery Flynn & Tracy Wolff [Flynn, Avery & Wolff, Tracy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Women's Fiction;Women's Humorous Fiction;Romantic Comedy;Women's Fiction;General Humorous Fiction;Avery Flynn;Loud Mouth by Avery Flynn;Loudmouth;Butterface by Avery Flynn;Awkweird by Avery Flynn;The Negotiator by Avery Flynn;Butterface by Avery Flynn;Entangled Publishing;Amara;Single Title Romance;Stand alone romance;Ice Knights Series;Enemies to Lovers;USA Today bestselling author;Laugh out Loud romance;Humorous Romance;RomCom;Harbor City;The Wedding Date Disaster;Trade Paperback Fiction;Small Town Fiction
ISBN: 9781682815915
Google: GMTkDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B088PY2JPS
Publisher: Entangled: Amara
Published: 2021-03-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty

And just like that, the already shaky foundation beneath my favorite pair of high-heeled boots dissolves, and I collapse onto the couch beside her.

“I’m sorry?” I must have misheard her. “What did you say? You’re my—”

“Sister.” She starts crying again. “I’m your sister. That’s how I knew where to find you, because Aunt Maggie was my aunt, too.”

And then the sobs start up all over again, but I’m too flummoxed to comfort her. To be honest, I’m too flummoxed to do anything but sit here with my mouth open and my head on the verge of exploding.

Because if she’s my sister and Aunt Maggie was her aunt, too—and that smarts, considering that means my aunt lied to me about something this hugely important—and it’s obvious that she’s younger than I am by at least five years and maybe even more…

Okay.

I take a deep breath.

Okay, okay, okay. I can deal with this. I can totally deal with the fact that my father is a dirty, lying cheat.

I blow out the breath, and that’s when it happens. A sob that I was totally unprepared for comes out right along with it. Because no matter how much I want to deny it, no matter how much I want to pretend that Sarah is just pulling a cruel, cruel trick—or worse, is some kind of con artist—there is one thing I can’t ignore.

From the moment I first saw her, I thought Sarah looked familiar. And now that I’m staring at her in the middle of my very bright family room, I realize why that was. From the tips of her streaked brown hair to her ocean-blue eyes to the tiny little cluster of birthmarks on the side of her neck, she looks exactly like my father did when he was young.

All those times he lectured me about the sanctity of marriage even during hardship… All the times my mother told me that I needed to go back to Karl because a woman belonged with her husband no matter what… They hadn’t been talking about me at all. They’d been talking about themselves.

They’d wanted me to stay with Karl so they could feel better about themselves—about what they’d done and the choices they’d made.

And all the time my father had been lecturing me on what a good man Karl was, about how adultery didn’t have to mean the end of a marriage—all the time my mother had told me to wear sexier underwear and more fucking makeup—they’d been carrying around this secret.

The secret that not only did my father cheat on my mother with at least one woman—though my very angry gut says there were probably a hell of a lot more through the years—but that he fathered a child with her. And he kept that child a secret for more than two decades.

What the hell am I supposed to say to that? Except, “Welcome to the family.”

The poor woman.

That only makes her bawl harder and—not going to lie—for a second, I think about bawling right along with her.

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