His words seemed to settle inside her, warming and calming her. I’ve seen you with my kids. You love them and they adore you. I’ve let you stay with them and I would completely trust you to do it again. That’s about as ringing an endorsement as a guy like me can make. Relax. You’re going to be great with your sister. Since he’d started dating Jessie so long ago, Brendan and Lucy’s relationship had been adversarial. She had been hurt and rejected that he had picked Jess over her, and those dark feelings had brewed inside her like a lurking infection, just waiting for a moment of weakness to growl to life. She hadn’t treated him well. She burned to think of some of the sly comments she had made to Jess about him when they were dating. It had been petty and small of her. At the time she’d justified it to herself—really, how could he possibly be any kind of decent guy if he would lock lips with Lucy one minute and start dating Jess seriously just a couple weeks later?
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