Beauty and Her Beastly Love (Passion-Filled Fairy Tales Book 2) by Rosetta Bloom

Author:Rosetta Bloom [Bloom, Rosetta]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: InBloom Press
Published: 2015-01-20T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Beauty had lived with the Beast for two months now. They spent a great deal of their time having sex. Beauty was thrilled to explore this side of herself. She liked being with Beast, especially the physical pleasure he offered her, over and over and over again. But, also his company during the day and evenings. He was charming, well-read, and often humorous.

He enjoyed walking the grounds with her and tending to the gardens. They’d often just sit and read to each other. If she’d known then what she knew now, she would not have dreaded coming to live here with Beast at all.

In fact, they were living like a husband and wife. This is partly what bothered her. They had not, in fact, been married. Yet, she was like his wife. Only, Beast insisted that being his wife meant something more than this. It meant her making a choice. But did it? He kept insisting she had a choice, when there really wasn’t one. She had to be here with him. That was their bargain, their agreement. Saying she would be his wife would not change things in the least.

They had just had sex, and Beast lay entwined with her, his furry legs tangled with her own. She looked at his monstrously large legs and sighed.

“What’s wrong, Beauty?” Beast asked, stroking her arm. “You’ve been a bit distant lately.”

She wasn’t sure what to say. That she missed her father. What did it matter? She couldn’t leave. That was her promise. But…but what if he changed his mind? Surely he had to understand how difficult it was to leave family behind. He had to have had a family once.

“I’ve just been thinking,” she said. “About you. Wondering what you did with yourself before I came.”

Beast looked away, then spoke softly. “I was very lonely before you came.”

“Did your family ever come to visit you here?”

“No,” he said quickly.

Beauty could tell he didn’t want to talk about his family, so maybe this was a bad strategy. If he didn’t miss his own family, how could he ever understand her longing to see hers? She smiled at him, leaned toward him and kissed his lips. He seemed to relax a little with that, so she decided to try a different approach. “It’s just that you said it was my choice if I wanted to be your wife. Since it is my choice, and my father isn’t here to look after my interests, I thought I should find out more about the family I would be marrying into. It might be nice to know whether you all hate each other and never speak, or if you love each other but live too far to be with each other.”

He was silent a minute, and Beauty wasn’t sure what to think. Then, he said, “You’re considering becoming my wife?”

Beauty nodded, though she wasn’t sure that was true. She wasn’t sure what his distinction meant, since they were bound together — just as if they were husband and wife — so long as he held her to her promise to stay with him forever.

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