The Beauty Beneath by DC Renee

Author:DC Renee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction, romance, beauty, love, desire, passion, bet, twist, friends to lovers, beauty beneath
Publisher: DC Renee

Twenty Two

Carter

“So I take it no makeover,” Beth said when I stopped by after work one day. We had been talking about Emerson for almost the entire twenty minutes I had been there. I wasn’t even sure how the conversation veered to her, but we went through how witty she was, how interesting her job was, and how great her smile was. Okay, maybe those were all the things I had brought up.

“Yeah, that didn’t fly over very well,” I admitted.

“I told you it was a bad idea.”

“Didn’t anyone ever tell you it was bad to say, ‘I told you so?’”

“Hmm, let me think. Nope. I told you so,” she teased.

“I was just trying to help,” I countered.

“I know, C, and I’m sure Em does too. Otherwise, I doubt you’d be in one piece right now. If someone pretty much called me ugly, I’d have chopped their head off.”

“Easy there, tiger,” I joked.

“So why did you think she needed a makeover in the first place?” Beth asked.

“I don’t really. I mean I know what my initial reaction was to her. I thought she was on the opposite spectrum from pretty, but now … I don’t see the things that turned me off in the first place. I just see Emerson. So it wasn’t so much about me thinking she needed a makeover but rather wanting her to feel good about herself.”

“And you thought telling her that she needed to change how she looked would do the trick?” she asked with raised eyebrows.

“I thought making her happier with her outer appearance would have her feeling better inside.”

“Maybe she’s happy with how she looks.”

“I guess so. It doesn’t matter anyway. She’s great just the way she is.”

“Why’d you think she needed to feel better about herself?”

“I can’t go into much detail,” I warned Beth, but I wanted her to understand the situation a little more. “Em trusted me, and I don’t want to break that trust by giving you a story that isn’t mine to tell.”

“But I’m your sister,” Beth whined.

“And I’m Em’s friend.”

“Okay, just testing you.” She smiled wide. “Wanted to make sure you were still loyal under pressure.”

“Oookay.” I rolled my eyes. “Anyway,” I continued, “she opened up to me, exposed some of her life and some of her past that explains why she’s so closed off to people.”

“I knew there had to be a reason,” Beth interjected.

“Yeah, well, there is, and she blames herself for something she had no control over.” I tried to be specific and vague at the same time. “And when she was telling me all this, sharing a part of herself, Beth, I almost … I almost did the same. I almost told her about …” I trailed off, not able to even finish my sentence, but by the wide eyes staring back at me, I knew Beth understood exactly what I meant.

“Look, I’m all about honesty in any relationship and there being a give and take,” she said, “but sometimes you can keep things about yourself in the past.

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