Cin's Secret by Diane Leyne

Author:Diane Leyne
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand, Inc.
Published: 2013-05-18T09:35:59+00:00

Chapter Seven

An hour later, Cindy was in a restaurant sitting opposite her sister. Lindy looked amazing. She was glowing with happiness. Jake was obviously good for her. She’d been talking on the phone when Cindy arrived, but she quickly hung up and jumped up to hug her sister.

“So, where did you get off to last night? One minute you were there, and then you were gone. I called the apartment this morning, but Serena said you were out. But I know you aren’t a morning person.”

“I was with Connor and Liam last night. And this morning.”

Lindy beamed at her. “Oh, Cindy. They are great guys. I hope it works out.” And then her face got serious. “You aren’t toying with them, are you? You are my sister, and I love you, but you have a certain history…” She trailed off uncertainly.

“You have every right to wonder about me and about my motives. Growing up, I was the ‘perfect’ daughter. Sweet and dainty and looking like a Barbie doll. You have no idea just how jealous of you I was. I was eaten up by it.”

Lindy looked shocked.

“You were jealous of me?”

“Oh, yeah. You were everything I wasn’t. You were smart and athletic and people listened when you talked. I was the “pretty” one. But people acted like I didn’t have a brain in my head. If you went out without makeup, your hair thrown back, you were a natural beauty. If I did the same, people criticized me. I had to be perfect, look perfect for the folks to love me.”

“What are you talking about? I was jealous of you. You were so pretty and popular, and no one joked about you being too tall to land a man.”

“No, but they told me that the only way I could succeed in life was to land a man. It became my reason for being. I judged myself on male attention. If a man didn’t pay attention to me, I felt unworthy. When you brought Jason Chadwick home, I knew it was serious. I was so jealous of you. I went after him when you weren’t looking. I flirted, I flattered, and when he wouldn’t bite, I set him up so you would think that your boyfriend was sleeping with your sister.

“Lindy, I am so sorry. I was such a bitch to you. I went after every man who showed the slightest interest in you, but what I did with Jason was the worst. It was bad enough with Cam and Freddie. They were happy enough to jump into bed with me when I batted my eyes at them, but Jason was innocent. I set him up and made sure you found out. I was a horrible person, and as the years went by, it just ate at me. I knew I needed to apologize to you, make it up to you, but how do I say sorry for that? So I figured I had to show you how sorry I was, and to do that, I had to become a better person.

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