Secret Life Of Bees の小説・ストーリー

This house was a throat full of heartbeats. Safe. Alive. For now. They stepped onto the porch. Dawn air brushed Baylee’s face — crisp and damp, pine-scented. Birds had started up already, little flits of song, scattered and bright. Heather stretched, joints popping. “Okay,” she said. “Confess.” Baylee blinked. “Confess what?” “The thing you’re not telling me.” Baylee groaned, scrubbing a hand over her face. “Do you have a built-in alarm for secrets now?”

Her words were as blunt as a hammer, those piercing eyes still making my skin crawl. Awkwardly, I dusted invisible dirt from my apron, smearing a dark blue paint that hid at the edge of my nails on it. “I know that he's from Alba. Is there any other thing I should be aware of?” Secretary Lee hesitated. Her shoe shuffled on the terrazzo floor, the sound making an unbearable twitch in my head. Her once cold gaze softened, but for only a millisecond. “I did my personal research while working with your father, and I found out some things…”

"That's the part I can't get past. You didn't tell me." "Because I knew you would react like this" Bella said. "Cold and distant and acting like I betrayed you when all I did was keep one secret to protect the peace between us." "One secret" I repeated. "One secret destroyed everything Bella. Don't you see that. One secret is all it takes." I stood up. I needed to get out of this room. Needed air. Needed space to think without her looking at me with those guilty eyes.

Some of my earliest childhood memories are of long summer days on the riverbank with Gran and Bea, armed with easels and oil paints and a picnic basket filled with sandwiches. "Bea had a sort of... proposition for us," Felix continues. "She told us about a place she owns that's totally off the grid... a sort of secret bunker, I guess you might call it, out in the woods. With a recording studio. A relic from her days hanging out with visiting bands. She said it was somewhere the five of us guys can be alone and have time writing songs for the next album without our manager stepping in." I don't get it. "Bea owns a secret bunker?" I say. I've always known she was eccentric, but this is next le

“The compromise that we reached was that Beth would move in with me, but into her own bedroom, and as friends. The elders think that the mate bond, even if it isn’t healed, still carries with it healing properties.” “What about us?” I refused to become my mother. I would never agree to be the other woman. “We carry on like normal. Just … in secret for a while.” I almost choked on my own saliva. “You have to be kidding. Please, tell me that you are kidding.” “Jenna, please understand. It’s the best way. And it’s only temporary.” “Why do we need to be mates in secret? If you aren’t getting back together with Beth, then why does it matter if everyone knows about us?”

Everything. Was kept secret. Everything... Was for Maeve. Meanwhile... Maeve had absolutely no idea. She was busy reviewing for the upcoming examinations. "Hey," Bea said. "Don't go home right after class later." "Why?" "I want to show you something." "What is it?" "It's a secret." Maeve rolled her eyes. "You really are impossible." Around six in the evening... Tiny fairy lights slowly lit up the rooftop. It wasn't luxurious. There was no grand stage.

"It makes everyone sound funny. But I should tell you now, I won't let anyone experience this. Right, not on my watch." "I don't care about what you do. I don't care about you," Bee said, snarling this time. She has a lot of hate going on inside. "I know, that's why I'm going to ask you to keep this a secret," I said, and she looked like she was going to strangle me or something. She stared at me quietly. After a couple of seconds, she nodded. "Just promise me one thing," she told me and turned her back. "Never ever try saving me from it again."

“Leave my Mary Kay out of this, Adams. They saved my life in high school, more than you did. Should you be there alone, Adams?” I was creeping around like a bloody stalker. “Houses don’t swallow people unless there’s an earthquake.” I must have stepped on something, cause it clicked and I heard something shift like a door sliding so I went toward it and found something. “Babe, there’s a secret underground here.” I whispered “What! Tell me I didn’t hear you clearly, Adams. Adams?” “Jess? Jay? Jessica. ..” The line had gone dead and the secret door went back up. So I tried to retrace my steps and find whatever switch I had activated.

Aaban walked down the center aisle between the giant silver cross and the Jesus statue and exited the chapel quietly, heading for his locker. He clicked the butane lighter on and off as he moved, thinking about fire and about retribution, and eternity, too, and about young supple virgins waiting somewhere in the hereafter for him. 3 The bees were in the trees . . . Cassie could see them from her house, in the bushes and locust trees where they had swarmed, down the slope which led to the small pond at the bottom of her backyard. They conspired there, the low buzzing sound of their carryings-on lifting on the breeze and rising up to where she stood. Cassie humphed.