Temptation

Chapter 59

Beth's POV

"How do you know who I am?" I ask, completely ignoring the woman's question.

Do you trust him

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Why does everyone keep asking me that? First harry is asking me it almost everyday at least three times a day. And now this stranger asking me the same exact thing. None of it makes sense to me.

"People don't just come In here admiring that rack of bracelets" she points again to the wall behind me.

"Oh." Is all I say. "He told me about you." I tell the woman.

She doesn't answer so I continue.

"he really appreciated what you did. You helped him." I tell her and she doesn't smile like I though she would.

"I try to. But many people are much as easy to read as he is."

"Read?"

"Yes. I have a gift of reading people, I know what they're feeling or thinking most of the time. But he- he was difficult." She says and I stifle a laugh.

"But I got through to him." She adds and I nod.

"Thank you for that." It might be wierd thanking her for this but I do. Maybe of this woman hadn't helped harry realized that he did love me he might have never spoken to me after that.

"Not a problem. He just needs to look past all of the bad."

"Yeah." I nod, agreeing with her.

"Come have a seat with me please?" She waves her hand towards the small table with two chairs in the back corner of the small shop.

She starts to walk and I follow behind her. The wooden chairs are cold against my bare thighs where the shorts don't cover and I shiver slightly.

She grabs ahold of a book and joins me at the table.

"This is what I showed him." She hands it to me and I turn to the page to the page that is already folded.

Legend of Goliath.

"This is it?" I ask and she nods.

"Indeed it is." She says and I run my fingertips over the bold writing.

"I don't get much service in this shop." She tells Me, her face looking a bit sad. "I would get some people that would pick the bracelet that you're wearing and I would tell them to pick something different."

"Why?" I ask.

"The bracelet is meant to be given to a loved one. Not a sibling, or any family member or friend. But to someone that you truly love. Someone you can't live without."

My heart warms inside my chest.

"That boy-your boy." She corrects herself and it sounds weird for her to call him 'my boy'

"Was the first person that I have let purchase the bracelet."

She is telling me that she believes that Harry is the only one to be able to purchase the bracelet because she knows that his love is real? My hear now seems to be on fire as she continues to talk to me.

I smile widely and I feel tears starting to brim my eyes but I try to hold them back.

"I have never seen someone look so dark and cold have such strong feelings for anything in my entire eighty four years of living."

She continues to tell me how much harry really does care about me and I do start to feel my eyes burn from trying to hold back the slight tears.

"Neither have I. Well, in my eighteen years of living." I joke and she laughs a little.