Life & Beth Review Novels & Stories

At this moment, Beth’s mind had recovered its usual state of clarity and she was pretending to sleep, listening to Fia and Esme’s conversation. She was shocked, joyful, and angry all at once. She was shocked that her daughter was really not dead and was using another person’s face to live on. She was joyful that her daughter was alive and well. As long as she was alive, she would have a good life. Angry because Fia actually wanted to destroy Esme once again. She absolutely would not let something like that happen! Therefore, when Fia was agitated, Beth pushed her. Fia fell to the ground. She looked at Beth in a daze and saw her running toward a nearby rockery.

“Sloane’s smart. She recognizes intelligence and compassion, and she appreciates it.” Bethany begins fanning herself. “I feel so seen, and loved,” she says dramatically, making me snort. “Seriously, though, Bene. I’ve never seen you with the look on your face that you had when you got home. I was so disappointed that mom was about to ruin it.” “She didn’t ruin it. Nothing could ruin the fantastic night I had. Honestly, Beth, it was the best night of my life.” “Sooo, you slept with her?”

Finn was sitting inside. My heart skipped a beat. The petals were custom-made, each one unusually large, with words printed on them. I picked one up and unfolded it, my hands shaking. “Be with me–” At the same time, my phone rang. When I answered, it was Finn. “I told you it was a surprise, didn’t I?” Then, I froze because when I turned the petal over, I saw the name written on the back—Sophie. Finn burst into laughter over the deafening roar of the helicopter.

I say, finally with nonchalance and Beth’s mouth fell open. “Sage!” She said horrified and I laughed, so I raised my cup to her. “The bop house girls make millions from this. It’s not bad” I teased and she shook her head. “You know how much I love sex but wouldn’t go as far as letting all those sweaty dudes stick their cock in me. Eww” she said and I chuckled. Beth was dramatic, much as I prided myself in my high libido, Beth was something else. I was sure that she was in my shoes. She would have found a way to get Mark drunk and have her way.

Strip away the family fortune and reputation, and you've got absolutely nothing. Sebastian's mother was imprisoned because of what happened to Mom, and he was banned from joining Hamilton Corporation. Even so, he never lacked food, clothing, or luxuries. The whole living in the "housekeepers' quarters" story was just his own sob story. His actual room was only slightly smaller than mine. In my previous life, he lived quite lavishly after he went abroad with no one to supervise him. I was curious to see what would happen to him in this lifetime.

I chuckled in response, thoroughly entertained by his irritation. Beth looked between us, clearly unsettled. Her gaze lingered on Rhett, and I couldn’t help but notice how her hands shook slightly as she took him in. Her knees still seemed unsteady, her face flushed. She was no doubt feeling the aftereffects of what I could only imagine had been cold, mechanical sex with my brother in the kitchen. Rhett had always been a detached lover, and Beth, in all her desperation, seemed oblivious to the fact that she was just another pawn in his game. “Beth,” I greeted her with a faint nod, my voice cold, not bothering to mask my disinterest.

The young lady, Beth Forester titled her head towards her confidante who was a step behind her and asked in a whisper “Are they all looking at me weirdly or is it my imagination?” “Might be because eldest lady looks a lot like her mother.” Zada, who was Beth’s confidante and personal maid answered back in a whisper. Whatever news Chris published; it was also simultaneously projected on to the screen in the meeting room. It was no surprise that people in the room were looking at Beth with a gaze that was mixed with sympathy and disparagement; Beth was a splitting image of her mother who was projected on the screen.

Now I seemed to have angered the nurse as well as my mate. Zion once more was laughing. ‘Not so good at this are you?’ he teased. ‘Oh, big shot, Beta.’ ‘You’re a Beta too, you freak.’ I snapped back, while my eyes met Bailey’s and, quite honestly, she looked like she was possessed. ‘Can childbirth turn a woman into a demon?’ Zion asked me. ‘Because right about now she looks pretty freaky, and I do not mean in a good way, like, we about to get freaky sort of a way…’

That made me realize that I would never be worthy of their love even if I had been admitted into the best college. In my last life, Richard had gone on to work as a hotel inspector. Not long after, he was trapped in a fire that caused his entire body to suffer from severe burns. Although he gained quite a lot in compensation, he could never regain his looks. Meanwhile, I inherited the pasta shop. That was where I saved a weak and penniless woman. To my surprise, that young woman returned with a check for 10 million and a diamond ring worth billions of dollars a few months later.

As Carolina reached for the coffee mug she’d left by the windowsill, something nudged her—an itch of curiosity. Katherine said she saw the post on Beth’s page… She grabbed her phone and opened I*******m. A familiar flood of filtered perfection greeted her on Beth’s profile—pink-hued aesthetic, high-saturation highlights, and captions that dripped with sugar. Then her thumb froze. Beth Rowe is Live. The blinking red icon hovered at the top of the page. Curious—and a little uneasy—Carolina tapped it. The screen loaded in a blur, and suddenly Beth’s flawless face filled the frame, walking down a hallway with a polished wooden tray in her hands. Her voice was bright, giddy, the kind of chirpy to