She saw how he was staring at it, the bright red hue beneath her bonnet. She could not bear to see the way he was looking at her–right through her–without seeing her. He did not see a woman. He did not see Jane, the woman he had been so passionate with two days before. He saw… Jane swallowed hard and lookedaway, hating the weakness of her spirit. She was more than this, a wilting flower. She was stronger than this. But damn it, this hurt. It hurt because he was the man responsible for making her burn. For making her feel like a woman. It hurt because it had been a trick. An illusion. And it hurt most of all because he did not see her, the woman she was behind the unfashionable spectacles and garish hair. .Charlotte Featherstone
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She saw how he was staring at it, the bright red hue beneath her bonnet. She could not bear to see the way he was looking at her—right through her—without seeing her. He did not see a woman. He did not see Jane, the woman he had been so passionate with two days before.
He saw… Jane swallowed hard and lookedaway, hating the weakness of her spirit. She was more than this, a wilting flower. She was stronger than this.
But damn it, this hurt. It hurt because he was the man responsible for making her burn. For making her feel like a woman.
It hurt because it had been a trick. An illusion. And it hurt most of all because he did not see her, the woman she was behind the unfashionable spectacles and garish hair.
By hiding behind these things she felt like she could hide from him, that if she hid like this then she might be able to survive his desire for her, but in doing so she was stripping herself of everything that made her feel like a woman; all the things that made her beautiful and desirable in his eyes; all of these things were stripped away when she hid behind these things and let him look at her like this without seeing her.
Source: Sinful
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