Ugly, Beautiful Mess by V.T. Do

Author:V.T. Do [Do, V.T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-09-28T04:00:00+00:00

I met with Aunt Helen in the library that night. It felt like forever since we’d last sat down and read together, but I knew I had stopped coming to the library at night after the first night Wyatt and I spent together.

Aunt Helen looked surprised when I walked in, but then her expression became unreadable. I smiled at her, and she smiled back as I went to the shelves and looked through the horror section.

Reading horror wasn’t something I indulged in often, but right now Stephen King seemed to be what I was in the mood for. Reading romance would have reminded me of Wyatt, and I was really trying to stay away from thoughts of him.

Aunt Helen eyed the book in my hand, but she didn’t say anything. We read in silence until it was close to her bedtime. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw her close the book she’d been reading and place it on the small wooden side table, and felt her eyes on me.

I marked the page of my book and looked up. She looked like she wanted to say something to me. “What?” I asked.

“Preston tells me you’re seeing someone. I was wondering if you were thinking of bringing him home for dinner some night.”

“Oh. I’m not seeing him.”

“Why not?” I couldn’t tell if she was happy about the news or not.

I shrugged. Because I’m afraid he might hurt me. And I don’t want to be hurt. Wyatt texted me this morning, but I hadn’t responded.

“How do you feel about him?” she asked.

“He’s…” Unpredictable. Irresistible. Tempting. “Different.”

“Different how?”

“Different from anyone I have ever met.” And that was the truth. If we ever got together, I knew it wouldn’t be because he was using me to go further in his career. He was driven, and he would go far on his own merits.

I had looked him up when he mentioned owning a business with Cole. And I hadn’t realized that he owned a multimillion dollar business until that Google search. He didn’t need my connections or family name. And yet he was trying so hard to get me. I might even entertain the idea that he was truly as attracted to me as I was to him, but the warning he’d given me still rang true.

There was no future for us.

“Do you like him, Emery?” my aunt asked softly. I had never heard her use that tone before.

I nodded. There was no point in lying. “Yes.”

She nodded, but didn’t say any more. Standing up, she patted my head as she walked past me and out the door. I didn’t know what to make of that. Was she happy for me? Sad? Did she see what I saw whenever I thought about Wyatt and me?

I didn’t know.

And I couldn’t go back to my reading after that. I went to bed early that night, and lay awake until I couldn’t anymore, falling into a restless slumber that had me yawning through my morning classes the next day.

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