Beauty, The Invisible, Episode 1
Janean Worth
Beauty
The Invisible
Episode One
By Janean Worth
Beauty is a work of fiction. Characters, names, incidents, and places are either a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictionally, with much creative license. Any resemblance to actual locations, places, events or persons, either still living or deceased, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright 2016 by Janean Worth
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Cover design by Janean Worth, graphics from Adobe Stock
Scripture quotes/verses from the Bible, King James Version.
Foreword:
This book deals with fictional characters who possess supernatural abilities. Although I have never personally met anyone who has been gifted with a supernatural psychic ability, I do believe that God blesses each of us with a gift as described in 1 Corinthians 12.
I also believe that, as described in Matthew 17:20, should any of us have faith the size of a mustard seed, nothing would be impossible for us. If we genuinely wanted to use our gifts only to serve God and His desires, and had sufficient faith, we could possibly be gifted with such physical gifts as I’ve seen fit to give the fictional characters on the following pages.
Table of Contents
Beauty – The Invisible – 1
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Preview of Riches, Invisible 2
Chapter One
Lucien Curmodene leaned against the wall outside Bella Thompson’s apartment and listened to the commotion going on inside, not even trying to wipe the delighted smile off of his face. He really enjoyed the sound of a good, raging argument. Especially this one.
He’d rented the apartment on the floor above Bella’s earlier that day. Hers was a very nice building, with a long waiting list—very posh, very safe, in a prime spot in Portland. He shouldn’t have been able to rent the apartment at all. He hadn’t been on the waiting list. He hadn’t even known there was an open apartment until sweet Bella had told him about it a few days ago at work after she’d seen the previous occupants moving out.
Work! He held back a snort. He hated that job. He was glad he’d only be working there a few more days. In fact, tomorrow would be his last day, if his plans progressed as he expected. He couldn’t wait to walk out for the last time. He hated everything about it. It was demeaning to lower himself to help the customers and grovel to the boss, demeaning to hide his power from them. He wasn’t sure how he’d been able to force himself to do it for the previous three days without resorting to violence. The customers, the manager, his coworkers—even sweet, beautiful Bella—had no idea what he was or what he was capable of, and he couldn’t wait to show them. The next day couldn’t come soon enough for him.
There was more shouting from inside Bella’s apartment, and he returned his attention to the epic argument that Bella and her fiancé were having.
It was escalating quite nicely. In fact, after Lucien’s initial manipulation of her fiancé, the argument had progressed just fine on its own, without any more help from him.
Bella’s fiancé was shouting at the top of his lungs. The man sounded like a bull, bellowing like that, and for a moment Lucien contemplated breaking down the door and barging in to put an end to the way the man was speaking to his beautiful Bella. But no, Lucien had to stop himself. This was all part of his plan. Bella had to suffer this indignity, and quite a few more, before he could set the rest of his plan in motion.
It was too bad, really, but that was just how it had to be. Staring at the closed door as he listened to the man spew fury and vitriol at Bella, Lucien wasn’t particularly sorry about it. Sometimes a little suffering was good for a person. Any suffering that she had to go through would just make the culmination of his plans for her that much sweeter, and perhaps humble sweet Bella just a little.
Lucien very much liked his women humble. He grinned again just thinking about his future plans for Bella and for himself, all of which were going to be made possible by his new talents.
He loved his newfound abilities and, most important, he loved what he was able to achieve with them. He only wished he’d discovered how to use them sooner.
If he’d known about his gifts earlier, he’d have been able to create quite a few more arguments, just like the one that Bella and her no‑good fiancé were having, purely for his own enjoyment.
