Status Updates From The Queen Bee

It was as if when he learned I was valued by someone else I assumed more value in his estimation. For this was how he appraised and judged the worth of women.

Well, she's finally starting to see through Eva. This has been a fun read, so far, and the writing is really enjoyable. But it's starting to devolve into a more standard Romance-type plot, which is a bummer.

Then as if his touch had pressed the spring of her emotion she was in his arms, her arms were clutched around his neck, her dark head was buried in his shoulder. The very curve of her body told me that within her was a capacity for loving so great that it was terrible. I could not bear to look. I turned my eyes away.

I told it quietly, without emotion, without tears, with no intention of trying to ease my heart as people do sometimes, by pouring its pain into his. Yet, when I finished and he leaned over and laid his hand on mine, it was eased somehow.