Beneath the Scars by Joan Fennell Carringer

Author:Joan Fennell Carringer [Fennell Carringer, Joan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-19T22:00:00+00:00

∞ SEVENTEEN ∞

WHY COULDN’T he get Marna Cord off his mind? What were his true feelings for her? Devon lie awake, tossing and turning and unable to sleep, long into the night. Thoughts of the day, beginning with Marna and Taryn’s unexpected visit to take Pops to see his old friend Ottie at the nursing home, ran through his mind like a video. Over and over, he heard Marna’s happy laughter as she listened to the wild stories both Ottie and Pops kept coming up with. He couldn’t help wondering if they were all true or if his grandfather and his longtime friend were making them up as they went along. No matter what, they’d made Marna –and even shy Taryn – believe them as they talked, joked and laughed so easily with each other. Anyone watching them or listening wouldn’t have had a doubt they were totally comfortable with one another and happy being together.

Devon understood the feeling because he felt at ease with Marna every time he was with her. Just the same, he wanted to look at her as both Ottie and Pops did, with eyes that saw nothing but the beauty inside her. He didn’t think either of them even noticed her scars or her bad eye. To them, she was perfection, exactly the way she was.

What was she to him? How did he truly see her? At times, he felt like he was looking beneath her scars. When that happened, happiness surged through him and he never wanted to turn away from her. But then reality would set in, and the human instinct inside him again saw her disfigurement. Like the moment their gazes had locked as they sat at the table in the restaurant. For the briefest of seconds, he’d felt as if he was looking into her very soul, where only beauty and purity lived. Then, to his dismay and against his will, he was noticing the one eye that wouldn’t completely open and thinking of the scars embedded so deeply into her cheeks. He hadn’t wanted it to happen. It just did. The worst part was knowing she could read in his eyes exactly what he was thinking. It was why she’d looked away so quickly. He had hurt her. He didn’t want to hurt her. Still, he had. Would he do it again, perhaps every time he saw her, even though he didn’t want to?

Maybe it would be better not to see her again. The thought brought an unexpected stab of pain to his heart. He wanted to be with her. He enjoyed talking to her and listening to her laugh. It touched him deeply when something he said brought emotional tears to her eyes. It made him want to wipe them away, to tell her he would never say anything else to make her cry. He wanted to run his fingers down her cheeks and tenderly feel those deep rigid scars, and then he wanted to press his lips to them and kiss them until they were no longer visible.

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