She smiled. “You got the point. And you only called me Carrot Top once.”
Yeah, but from that day on, he’d started calling her Sprout instead. “If I hadn’t been off balance, I would have stayed on my feet.”
Cindy grinned, green eyes glimmering with the memory of his reaction to her sneak attack. “I’ll never forget that wide-eyed gape on your face when I stood over you.”
“You had a lot more spunk as a kid than I gave you credit for.”
“I still do.”
She certainly did. There’d always been a lot more to Cindy Tucker than met the eye. And what met the eye now was a pleasant surprise.
“I’m glad you came to live with us,” she admitted, “even though I resented the attention Grandpa gave to you.”
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