IS HE A BEAST

me off. Bartered my bo

y devil

f a man.

bout amongst the villa

e wealth and power t

ly stand

ad ever seen him, but I

ear

ee times the size of a

r. His eyes held an une

with claws. Then there w

e used to tea

d at the image my

clenched my hands tightl

k waged

ke that, Belle. I di

er credit… he at leas

ce. How could you just

I hissed out

he dropped his head, ex

was bein

rything. The little lan

me. “We would have been

eet

tter than marrying tha

unable to look

illage that my father had

ey. He had far too many

life

lly caught

for me to pay him back

trying to pull o

d been too many instanc

istakes, where I had to us

he debtors w

the village seamstress

e’d spent all our money

’d worked and

everything,” he whis

ll. Because I don’t

’m losing m

ld myself a proper lady

so hurt and a

everything, and then th

he tavern last night with

if I didn’

t I knew was a horrified

e of us able to speak aft

ung in the a

eep this time.” I pinch

efinger and exhaled.

sor

again, he was always s

ard t

d how you were proposit

is

the tavern. He overhear

ipe the slate clean if I

e nerve to glance away, h

rtedly before I kn

admit I thought about ru

as I looked at my father

ere to once again clean u

proverbial wolves

he words were pushed ou

I looked at him. The d

e. “How

ed at the flames burn

tni

of me and I braced

s given to a Beast who

animalistic and pr