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Another side of Her Chapter 52; London
London I sat up on the bed and stared into space. It was hard to imagine that a few minutes ago I had a man who loved me- even though it was a lie. I sighed and pulled the pillow up to my chest. Everything inside of me hurts. Throughout the day, I had moved through the motions, not hurting, barely panicking but now it felt like I was bursting at my seams.The pain I didn't feel when I walked away from Sin was clawing at my chest, wanting to see the light.I placed a hand on my chest and breathed heavily. I knew it was only a matter of time before the pain would come but I didn't think that it would hurt that much.Maybe I was just as naive as my sister thinks I am.I placed my hand on my head and tried to control my breathing.Emotions built up in me and my memory slowly came undone.It all came back to me.How he would want to be with me. Be around me and how I would cling to him because I liked him.I remembered his stares that made me blush and how he made me feel seen.I jumpe
Another side of Her Chapter 53; Sinclair
SinclairI groaned and wiped my eyes as I woke up. I glanced around the room and saw it was empty.It looked like nothing happened yesterday.It looked like the Albright sisters didn't drag my heart through the mud yesterday.Bitterness filled my heart as I remembered the argument I had with Cathleen in the night. “How did I fall for someone like her?” I asked out loud. I stood for a few seconds then shook my head. There was no need to brood on it, she was gone. She was out of my life forever.“Good riddance.” I hissed.I shook my head and pulled myself to the bathroom. “The earlier I leave. The better.” In a few minutes, I was dressed. I got my clothes and shoes, then packed them. I walked around the room to make sure I didn't leave anything behind then nodded.I went to the receptionist and handed her the keys, “Cathleen Albright will be back for her clothes today.”Or maybe not. I hope she never comes back.“Keep them safe for her.” She gave me a single sharp nod, I felt her eyes
Another side of Her Chapter 54; London
London I woke up to the noise of knocking on my door. I stretched on the bed and blinked, taking my time to adjust to the light of the day. I rubbed my aching neck and stretched my limbs again. “I finally fell asleep.” The knocking intensified and I pushed myself to open it thinking it was Cathleen coming to kick me out. I opened the door and froze when I saw who was standing there. “E..E…Eva.” She nodded at me with a grim look on her face. “Can I come in?” I nodded, speechless. How did she…? She entered and glanced around the room. I stared at her as she walked around making herself comfortable. She patted the sheets and mumbled, “She has good taste.” She? I panicked and jumped to fix it. “I ordered the hotel, Eva. I don't know what you're talking about.” “Ordered?” She raised a brow and patted the pillow. Shit. I cursed. I bit my lips and let out a nervous laugh. “I…I meant reserved. I reserved this hotel myself. That was just a slip of tongue. I didn't mean t
Another side of Her Chapter 55; London
LondonI was now a proud, card carrying member of the love sucked community. Because there were no wins when you were in love at least not in my situation. I had set out to gain one person's Love at the risk of the other and what had I gotten instead? Neither. A sister who didn't give two fucks about me and a man who didn't know about my existence. Was it fair?I couldn't answer that question even if my life depended on it. For some of us, life could never be fair. It was people like Cath that ended up eating her cake and still having it. "Stop thinking about it so hard." Eva said.I turned to face her as the car flew down the highway, carrying me back to my old life. A life that I had left to crash and burn while I was away falling in love. Falling in love like a damn fool. I chuckled bitterly."Did you hear me?" She asked. Huge sunglasses covered her eyes and she was dressed impeccably in navy slacks and a sky blue silk blouse. I suddenly remembered her saying she had had a crush
Another side of Her Chapter 56; Sinclair
SinclairNew York felt different. Cold and unwelcoming. It didn't feel like home anymore. My apartment felt too cold and clinical for my liking. My whole body and soul revolted against being here without London. I wanted to take it back to forty eight hours ago when it has been just us. Before Cathleen had appeared and ruined everything. She didn't even say goodbye. I pushed the silly thought away. Of course she couldn't have said goodbye. I wasn't supposed to know that she had been there with me. She didn't know I knew. My phone pinged with a new email as it had been doing since I stepped foot in new York. All the business I had put on the back burner while I was off falling in love demanding my immediate attention now. I was yet to remove Harper from the position of my assistant and wondered if I should even bother anymore. London who had had a problem with her was no where near me. But truly, Harper was over due a better position. I sighed, rubbing the bridge of my nose. The
Another side of Her Chapter 57; Sinclair
SinclairI hate it here.The thought jumped to my subconscious and I gritted my teeth as I walked into the building where I worked.I felt eyes on me as I walked past a handful of employees. The eyes watched me walk, staring from my feet to the hair of my head.I let out a breath as I walked out of their sight. I looked back only to see them whispering.I winced.I was going to be a source of entertainment to them today and I knew why.I looked terrible.While I didn't break the dress code of the office by wearing Crocs, caps or shiny attention-calling gold chains, I didn't look my best.My suit wasn't as colour-coordinated as it would be on a normal day. My hair had seen better days. It was rough like I had run my hands through it multiple times even though it was only eight o'clock in the morning.My tie hung loosely around my neck. Loose enough to show I didn't care but not loose enough to call HR’s attention.I knew how I looked. I just didn't care.An employee walked past me and
Another side of Her Chapter 58; London
LondonI pulled down my gown and let out a breath as I walked into the club.I walked around till I saw a female server. She wore a bright pink uniform and smiled as she served the customers. I waited till she was done before I went to her.“Excuse me.”“Yes.” She balanced a tray of empty drinks and looked at me.“I'm here for the interview.” Her face broke into a smile. “You're here for the interview!”I forced a smile on my face and nodded, “Yes. I am.” “Come with me. I'll take you to the boss lady.” I followed her and we weaved through crowds of servers and clients. She stole a glance at my legs, and then my face. She looked into my eyes and smiled.I tried to say something but she beat me to it and said, “This is the office.” She pointed at the door.I nodded and knocked. “Come in.” The person inside said. I let out a breath and walked in. The first thing that assaulted my senses was the smell. The room smelled like a store for rotten food. I held my breath and started breath
Another side of Her Chapter 59;Sinclair
I got into my car and drove home. While on the road, I rolled down my windows to let the air rush in, wanting to cool myself down. I thought back to the way I treated Harper earlier and cringed. That wasn't me. That wasn't how I behaved. The wind whipped my face as I drove at high speed. I waited for my heart rate to increase, I waited for the rush of adrenaline, I waited for the spike of excitement that driving at high speed promised but all I got was a sad, depressing feeling in my chest. “Disappointing,” I murmured. I switched on the radio, to distract myself from my thoughts. A calm instrumental was played on the station I was listening to. I listened to it and my lips curved on their own accord. “The flute. It's so relaxing.” The flute kept playing for about five minutes. I had already passed my house and was just driving but I didn't care. I needed it. The flute stopped playing for a while and the radio commentator’s voice filled my car, “That wonderful sound you just he
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Another side of Her Chapter 89;London
One month laterLondon“What if this doesn’t work?” I wrung my hands nervously. Cath rolled her eyes. “You’re the one that came up with this ridiculous plan.” I glared at her. “Hey! You’re the one who started the whole twin switch trend.” “Gabriel thinks this is stupid too.” She pointed out. I huffed. “I can’t believe you even told Gabriel. This was supposed to be between us.” “I’m not going to rub myself over Sinclair without my boyfriend knowing.” She said. “You should just go be Gabriel’s twin then. Ugh, isn’t there like a sacred twin code or something.” She shrugged. “I’m confused about what you’re trying to do here exactly, Lon. Isn’t Sin like so head over heels in love with you that he has a tunnel vision for you.” “Well, but what if?” I whined. I didn’t know what was wrong with me. Sin and I were okay, everything was perfect, and yet… yet I couldn’t shake the feeling that he could just love my sister as easily again. I knew it was just my insecurities rearing their ugl
Another side of Her Chapter 88; Sinclair
SinclairI had just gotten back from work, a single foot inside my apartment when my phone rang. I dug it out the inner pocket of my suit jacket. “Hello.” “Am I speaking to Sinclair Donovan-Wells?”“Yes. Who’s this?” “I’m calling about Miss Albright, she’s been involved in an accident and you are…”The woman’s words trailed off. Blood rushed out of my head and I felt dizzy and unsteady. “Where? Where’s she?” I managed to ask through the lump in my throat. I was already jumping into the elevator and stabbing the button for the ground floor repeatedly by the time the woman began to rattle off the location. “Thanks.” I said and hung up. The drive over was one big blur, I must have run several red lights in my rush to the hospital. All I could think was that London was lying in a bed, hurt and she needed me. She had to be okay. She had to be. I should never have wasted so much time running around my feelings for her. I should never have even let her walk away from me, from us back
Another side of Her Chapter 87; London
London“I need you.” Three words. Eight letters. The exact same ones from the very same person that had gotten me into the biggest disaster of my life. Maybe I was weak, pathetic, a pushover, whatever you wanted to call it. A wiser and stronger person would have blocked my sister’s number, cut off all connections to her and my parents. Because they had hurt me. The kind of hurt where after years and years of it, I hadn’t even realized that I was being destroyed from inside out. The kind of hurt where they had broken me so much that I thought I had to be the one constantly apologizing for myself. For some reason though, I just couldn’t take that final step. I wasn’t Cath no matter how much I wanted to be sometimes. I was angry and heartbroken about everything, but I knew that someday I’d want to talk about it more calmly and heal. My phone had been blowing up since everything had gone down. I had listened to my parents cry over the phone, but Cath had been radio silent except that o
Another side of Her Chapter 86; London
London“I don’t think I’ve ever fully recovered from that night of debauchery.” Eva said as she joined me in the booth. It was the day after Adam and I’s surprisingly fun date. I had been surprised at how well he had taken my rejection, but also glad about it. I’d have hated to have been mean to drive home my obvious lack of interest. Thankfully there had been no need for that. Eva’s lunch break corresponded with mine so we had decided to have a quick lunch together. My treat, because I now had some much needed amount of money in my bank account thanks to March Madness selling out. The hype around it was still going on strong. I guess everyone was curious about the new bestselling book by a previously unheard of author. It felt good to have money, but it felt much better to be able to pay for lunch with my friends. Eva had paid all the other times we had gone out together and even though she had assured me that I shouldn’t think too much about it cause she had money to burn, I still
Another side of Her Chapter 85; London
LondonI had been digging through my wardrobe at a loss for what to wear for my date with Adam when I’d stumbled upon this really cute pink blouse. It was an old cloth but I had never won it because it had been too big at the time I had gotten it. Almost five years later and it was now perfectly my size. It was also perfect for this date paired with dark skinny jeans and black ankle boots. It gave the vibe I had meant to go for which was cute but not too sexy to look inviting. A little stern, but still lovely. The blouse had big flowy sleeves that I loved so much. I put my hair into a low bun, applied minimal make up and a spritz of perfume, then left my apartment to meet Adam at the foyer of my building. I had set up this date earlier today when I had run into him at the dog park. My decision to talk to Sin had hardened into a sure resolve. No matter how it turned out, I knew I couldn’t go out with Adam. I just wasn’t in the right place to pursue anything with him and I had to tel
Another side of Her Chapter 84; Sinclair
SinclairAs soon as Cathleen left, I rang Lucas up. “Hey, man. What’s up?” “Sips Plix in fifteen?” I asked. “Make it twenty, I drove out to my sister’s place.” He said. “Sure.” I hung up. Changing out of my shirt and slacks, I slipped into a dark grey T-shirt and black corduroy pants, grabbed my wallet, car keys and headed out. I needed to talk to Lucas and get his opinion on things, but in reality, I knew that even if he discouraged me from going after London, I would still do it. I needed him as more of a sounding board to know how to go ahead with getting her back than anything else. I had made up my mind that I wasn’t spending one more second moping around and waiting for some force of nature to yank us back into each other’s orbits. Lucas showed up almost ten minutes after I’d gotten to the bar. My half full glass of alcohol had been left untouched. “Hey, this had better be an emergency.” He said as he joined me at the bar. “I had to leave my sister’s cute kids halfway int
Another side of Her Chapter 83
SinclairI had completely forgotten that Cathleen had access to my apartment. The first thing I usually did when I ended things with a woman was revoke her access to my place. It had always seemed unnecessary with Cathleen though. She was the last person that would show up out of the blues to exchange words or do something crazy. But then again, maybe I had always just overestimated her. I was in the living room with my laptop when I heard the sound of heels clicking behind me. I looked over my shoulder.The first thing I thought was that London was here, in my apartment. My heart leaped. It came crashing back down when my brain finally registered that it wasn’t London at all, but Cath. Now that I knew them, I could clearly differentiate them even half asleep. They were perfectly identical of course, a mirror image. But I had had London in my arms and fallen in love with every inch of skin on her body, so my soul would know her even in the dark. And this wasn’t her.I followed Cat
Another side of Her Chapter 82;London
LondonIt was almost three am when we were all finally wiped from a night of drinking, singing along to the music Eva had queued up to her amazing surround sound speakers and laughing till our bellies began to hurt. All in all, it had been an amazing night. Eva’s bed was super large and so somehow we had all fallen into it in a tangle of limbs and hair. When I woke up, it was almost five am. My head felt like someone had taken a drill to it and my mouth tasted like it had been stuffed with cotton. I tried to silently slip into the bathroom but ended up making more noise than I had expected. The girls were either too drunk or too deep in sleep to notice because when I looked over my shoulder, neither of them had stirred. I let out a breath of relief and tiptoed to the bathroom. I quickly peed and splashed water on my face and rinsed my foul tasting mouth out before making my way to the kitchen. I gulped down three glasses of water then located an Advil and popped two down my throat.
Another side of Her Chapter 81; London
LondonStatic buzzed in my ear at her words. March Madness had what? “I d-don’t understand. What are you talking about?” I stammered. March Madness was my singular published book, and it was a raging failure. Only about ten copies of it had been bought since it’s release two years ago. The horrible sales had made me depressed for the longest time, and my editor had also cut off ties with me afterwards. And now, she was telling me that it had sold out? I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t want to believe it. “Your book, March Madness.” She clarified, her voice never loosing that edge of excitement. I understood her excitement. My book suddenly making it big was like Christmas to her, it meant that she was about to line her pockets with some serious cash. And so was I. “It’s just become an overnight sensation. Six thousand copies were bought and now it’s on the New York bestseller list. Not on the top three, but I believe it could actually get there.” “Oh.” I said stupidly. “As I’m talk
