Cynthia "Cyn" Rowley

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Shelby Rowley (Sister)

**Before 2021**

Cyn was born into an extremely wealthy family. Her father was currently the owner of the family business. Jewelry. Diamonds mostly. Her mother was basically a trophy wife. She flaunted the jewelry that her husband sold. She was beautiful, and helped boost sales every time they went out to a party and showed off. Which was often. Leaving young Cynthia with her nanny a majority of the time.

Her early life was normal enough other than that. When she was a few years old, her sister Shelby came along and the two of them were inseparable immediately, even with the small age gap. Well not by Shelby's choice of course, she was just young. But Cyn was all about her baby sister and helping nan take care of her. This continued on.. well.. pretty much forever.

While Cyn went through school, nan was still around. She had to be for Shelby. But once Shelby started school, nan was sent to look for work elsewhere. This was really hard for the girls, but their mother noticed it, and would then take the time to break away a bit from the business, and be there more with the girls. They bonded with her, and it was the three girls against the world.

Until one fateful day when Cyn was so close to becoming an adult. The news was told that her mother had died. A trust had been set up for Cynthia and she would have access to it once she was 25 years old. Meanwhile, Cyn took over as the woman of the house in taking care of Shelby, since their father was still never really around.

It wasn't until after her mother's death that her father got into the really bad shit. Gambling, drinking, taking unnecessary risks with the family's money. Twice before Cyn had gotten her trust he'd had to be bailed out to not have to sell the business. Cyn realized quickly that in order to ensure she and Shelby would be okay, she was going to have to have a back up way to make money. She loved helping people as well, so the choice to work towards becoming a doctor was an easy one.

It was hard work. A lot of staying up late and studying as most of her focus after school was making sure Shelby was taken care of. While she was primed to be one of the rich popular girls that everyone judged her to be anyways, she was actually quite a loner.

Cyn struggled with going off to college and leaving Shelby behind. She stayed as close as she could to get the degree she needed. Nothing horrible happened really... Other than the norms of living with an alcoholic father.

When Cyn turned 25 she got her trust, and was able to buy a house. Shelby moved in with her which made her feel much better about it. Their father from that point mostly left them alone. Until he found that he was once again out of money. And he knew that Cyn had gotten her trust. He had also learned that there was something important included in a piece of jewelry. A piece of jewelry that was worth a lot of money. And contained information. He wasn't sure what that information was but considering he was pretty sure he was the one who had driven his wife to suicide, and he did not want Cyn to find out about that. He also hoped that perhaps the information might lead to more money that his wife had decided to hide away from him.

Whatever it was, he got consumed, and it got worse with each passing year, trying to find that jewelry. It was a couple years that Cyn was followed before she even realized she was being followed. And once she realized it, it just got worse... Until the day our story starts.