Chapter 273. The Plan

CYNTHIA's P O V

‘‘Thank you, Vina…’’ I smiled at her as I watched her pick up the curling iron from my vanity and isolate a strand of my hair to wrap it around the steaming cylinder, while I applied a reddish liquid tint to my cheeks.

It was six o’clock in the evening, and mom’s birthday party was scheduled to start at seven. I didn’t want to be there on time because I obviously wanted to make an entrance for Jake. Now that he has revealed to me the truth about the fact that we’re not actually cousins, I’ll do everything to make him mine…

To steal him away from Tori…

And tonight would be the night to start my plan on seducing him…

‘‘We’re not cousins…’’ the words he said to me played over and over in my head.

To say that I was shocked at the time would be an understatement, yet at that same moment, I felt a stirring of hope within me. The expectation that we will soon be able to spend time together. I held out hope that he would eventually fall in love w