Subduing the Beastly Queen

hands off her father's throat, and sat back, gapin

ou okay?" s

. His eyes were bloodshot and tight with p

voice broken and jagged as she scr

chest. Then he rolled onto his side, his back t

whispering comfort to him, Helena started. Her father raised a hand to her mother's face. He didn't speak, but s

challenged her father and won. And... she w

to see in his eyes if this was real. And she found him,

d quickly

ing so wide he

I done?'

n each other when her father was angry and not to b

d being flat and, face down, to indicate