Beauty

I thought I could escape the Beast … but he already devoured my heart.

When the Beast took me and dragged me back to his cell, I thought my life was over.
In the darkness, he watched me.
Yearned for me.
Tasted me.

He loved my scars, called me a beauty …
Made me irrevocably his.

Until his owner finally let him out …
And his final task was to destroy my father.
The only thing that stood between them was me.

Faced with an impossible choice, I run.
But even the beauty can’t escape the claws of the Beast.