Gray Sin by JODY KAYE

Author:JODY KAYE
Language: eng
Format: epub

From the pew, I listen to Gracyn’s calm words. She may think she’s bombing this, but I can tell when Gracyn slips into a memory she has of Rose that she’s no stranger to public speaking. Gracyn straddles the present and the past with poise and confidence.

It’s what Gracyn doesn’t say—the things she leaves out—which matter the most. After spending every weekend together for months, I’m able to read between the lines of the circular list. Gracyn’s loved, but there’s a constant worry if she’s enough for those who love her. Because she’s not like the rest of them and she knows it.

Perhaps the others won’t ever get why Gracyn is a little bit more outspoken than her cousins. Why her personality is so close to her grandmother’s. It’s more than genetics. Miss Rose was well aware of the commonality they shared. I’m one of the lucky few who gets an impartial glimpse of the real woman Gracyn’s become as she’s jumped the line between youth and maturity. It’s comforting to know she’s able to let go in my presence. And wishful thinking that one day my hidden emotions will become transparent to her.

Gracyn makes me recognize how much of life I missed out on more than my friendship with her uncles and fathers ever had. Watching them parent, I was glad for the guy’s domestic bliss. My friend’s happiness also brought a fair amount of discontent to me because I’d never gotten that far in a relationship. Not that I have, or will now. But my graying hair shades my perspective.

That said, I’m glad I wasn’t privy to Gracyn’s life over the past sixteen years. She wouldn’t be my present otherwise. Adam did right by his daughter and Colton reared Gracyn as if she was his own. But Gracyn’s felt like a merger instead of an offshoot. Her four parents as a unit loved her, but her biological parents were never in love. Adam fell for Temple. Colton grounded his life with Keely. Then Cassidy and Rhiannon were born from that love.

She’s still trying to prove she’s got enough strength and ambition to be a Cavanaugh. Everything Gracyn does reinforces to herself that she’s worthy to inherit the Kingsbrier legacy and she is still carrying the childlike fear that by virtue of their birth, her sisters and her cousins have more worth. More claim to their family name. And above all else, Gracyn believes she’s deserving of the blame if she makes the wrong business move.

From the outside, Gracyn is unapologetic in the way she channels parts of Rose’s persona. On the inside, she’s saving every apology as a shield for the day she has to express her regret for failing the people who loved Rose the most.

Mrs. Cavanaugh was an icon in the county. Undeniable in her youth. Untouchable in her determination. Unyielding in the way she loved her family. The rigidity is Rose and Gracyn’s commonality. She refuses to let her family down. I can see the ramifications of going public with our relationship.

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