Chapter 2: BelleHis low groans woke me from my trail of thoughts and with every strength I had in me, I pushed him off and gave him a resounding slap on the cheek. His eyes widened in shock at my violent act while his hands massaged his stinging cheeks. I could see the way his chiseled jawline tensed and released obviously to calm his rising temper. I knew what I did was quite dangerous because he could have his way with me as there was no one around and it was raining cats and dogs outside but I had to take my chances. I would never forgive myself if I gave in to his advances because it would break papa's heart. My papa never liked Gaston. He considered him too stubborn to tame.“Belle!” He growled and I shrank back in fear. I had angered the devil and now I was going to pay for it. I swallowed hard and took a step back and Gaston made to move towards me.He took a step forward and stopped. He must have seen the fear in my eyes or maybe my guardian angel was finally on duty again."
Chapter 3: Belle“Have you tried searching the forbidden part of the forest?” I felt the world go silent as my question seeped in.“I mean, if something happened to him in the actual forest, Gaston and his men would have found him by now. Don’t you think?” she repeated and I stared straight at her.She was right. Why didn’t I think of it earlier? The possibilities were slim but there was no harm in trying. He might have been dropped there –I thought but then shook my head against that idea.No, he probably went there to hide from bandits and fell asleep from exhaustion.“What are you thinking Belle?” Laurette asked giving me a little nudge on the shoulder.“I have to go in there, Laurette!” I said as emotions overwhelmed me again and my shoulders shook. I knew what I was saying was crazy but what could I do? I couldn’t continue living my life when I had no idea what happened to my papa!"Come here dear," Laurette said and opened wide her arms. I couldn't hold my tears back. I embrace
Chapter 4: BeastI stared at the little figure that sat on the cold floor of my dungeon and rolled my eyes at it. Its ragged breathing echoed everywhere. The figure shivered in the cold as it rubbed its hands together.It must have been sleeping for as soon as it noticed that I was there, it backed away from the entrance and shuddered in fright. Again, I rolled my eyes. People could be such cowardly little things."Look at me!" A low growl escaped my lips as I watched the little figure in front of me. The thing that had dared step into my gates to mock me! "Please let me go, I am but a poor widower," it muffled from where it was. Its audacity made me even angrier. I growled louder and banged on the dungeon wall creating a dent in it. The human in front of me gulped down loudly and added. "I just want to see my daughter. She would be worried sick,” It said as a tremor passed through it, and for a second it looked braver than before. “She will go searching for me. I do not want any
Chapter 5: BelleThe doorbell chimed indicating that a customer had walked into the shop. I hopped off my chair and skipped my way to the front desk to attend to whoever had come. "Good day to you, welcome to Armoire stitches. How may I help you?" I asked without even looking up to see the face of the customer as I busied myself flipping through the record books. The customer was yet to say a thing so I looked up to confirm if he or she was following at all. My gaze met that of a stunned Gaston, he seemed to be lost in his dirty thoughts as his eyes stayed glued to my chest. My boobs were sort of visible under the light dress I wore. I narrowed my eyes at him as I started tapping my feet on the floor."Gaston!" I gritted in between my teeth in anger to snap him out of his lustful reverie. He grinned awkwardly and scratched the back of his head in shame. I threw him an ugly glare and attempted to walk out on him but he seemed to have read my thoughts as he pulled back my hands and t
Chapter 6: BelleHe seemed to have gotten what crazy thoughts I had in mind and he shook his head negatively. "No Belle, hell no. I am not doing that!" he said and got into the carriage. I followed after him and took the seat beside him. “Gaston…” I purposely dragged his name to pass my message across. I needed his help for my idea to work and I would do about anything in my power to make him accept it. I turned on my seat to face him and made a puppy face at him.He was having a hard time resisting my pleas and I smiled inwardly. Gaston could not refuse me."Damn!" He cursed. “Belle, that is too dangerous!”“But Gaston, you haven’t even heard what I have planned!” I protested leaning closer to him.I could feel his heart racing underneath his shirt as I leaned on him. His hands were shaking as he held the reigns with all the strength left in him. “Belle, please stop… I can’t drive and…” he trailed off as beads of sweat formed on his forehead.“First, you aren’t driving yet Gaston… s
Chapter 7: BelleThe horse neighed continuously as I rode it faster into the woods. My horse was far ahead of Gaston's. Last night was quite risky as we broke into the stable to steal Chester, the security alarm had gone off the moment we opened the door to escape. Some officers chased after us for a while but they gave up after they realized we weren't making a halt. I had stubbornly suggested we go ahead in search for papa that night though Gaston was against it he later agreed on the condition that he would come along with me and I readily cooperated. Chester neighed and jerked vehemently bringing me out of my reverie. I tried to hold on tight to Chester but he kept jerking back and fought violently like he was scared of something. I lifted my head to look around the surroundings and realized that further ahead into the woods was pitched dark. I smoothed the horse's head to calm it down and jumped down the horse in my brown boots. I was about to take a step when a hand held me bac
Chapter 8: BelleA sweet aroma penetrated my nose as it awoke my senses of smell. I squirmed on my bed and inhaled more of the sweet aroma but immediately jumped off the bed when the memories of last night's ordeal came rushing back to me. I panicked and accidentally bumped into the breakfast table by the bedside. I cringed as I anticipated the crashing sound but instead, I heard a burst of tiny laughter. I knitted my brows in confusion and looked around the room but there was no one. Surprisingly enough, the breakfast table was intact and so was its content. Before I passed out, I thought I saw a candlelight move and now, I was hearing voices in a room that was void of humans except me. I let my gaze travel around the room admiring it. The room was so big, my eyes couldn’t take in everything. The walls were painted grey, while the curtains were black. It was obvious to me from the decor that it was a man's room but what man?“Did Gaston take me home?” I thought but then canceled th
Chapter 9: Adam/BeastThe sun had gone down and the curse had lifted. I was in my human form again and I felt it was the perfect time to go see the maiden. My plan was perfect. The stallion had gone back and it brought forth the little thing’s daughter just like I had planned.She had walked right in screaming in my castle like the imposter she was. When I got to her, I wanted to bare my teeth at her and see how much of a coward she was. But for some reason I couldn’t understand, my heart flipped over the moment I saw her walking into my castle. There was something about her, I couldn’t quite put a finger on it but it was there. And this melted my conviction. I couldn’t be mean to her just like that… so I did what I thought was best. I asked Lumiere to lock her up in one of the upper bedrooms.Now that the sun was down, I could go to her. I wanted her to see me in my real form – and not the one the witch had cursed me in. I took a long bath and threw on my best shirt and pants. I stoo
“Mish! Get your ass down, dinner is ready,” my younger sister, Evelyn, shouted from downstairs. I came back from school three hours ago and I’ve been on my bed sulking and constantly resisting the urge to scream at the top of my voice.Mrs. Shantel and Mr. Brett? How long has that been going on under my nose? I stalked Mr. Brett well enough to have known. I sat up swiftly and stretched my hand to pick my phone from my nightstand. Impatiently, I logged into Instagram.Pfft, of course I’m not on Instagram. I logged in with my sister’s account. Being bullied offline is only the much I can bear, thank you very much.It didn’t take me much time to get to Mr. Brett’s profile. I stared at his relationship status and it stared back at me. It was boldly written SINGLE. Just to be sure, I wore my glasses and glanced hard at it. It still remained SINGLE. I searched for Mrs. Shantel’s profile and found out that she was married.“Then why the hell were you fucking someone not your husband!!” I scr
It was the early hours of Monday morning, 6:00am to be precise, and I was already in the cobwebby school basement, tucked away in the only neat corner. Of course, the neat corner of the basement, which I had turned into my niche, was cleaned up by me. You must definitely be wondering what kind of psycho cleans up the school basement to spend her mornings and what for! Well, to cut the long story short, it was my only means of survival. If I wanted to get through my remaining days in high school, then I had to do this. This was me doing what I did best, hiding away from my sworn enemy, traitor, rival, tormentor, give it all the name you could think of. Synonymous to those names is Kelly Parker. Kelly is the Queen bee of Beverly High. I hate her with all my heart, but she’s beautiful. Breathing-taking kind of beautiful, I’m not going to lie. I just hate her the more for that, because why should she be so perfect? Of course, she is the head cheerleader and she is dating Bruce Paschal,
Ariel's POV For two days after that, I waited for the man to show himself. It was almost like he purposely ignored me. When I realized that he wouldn't show himself unless something drastic happened, I waited for the guard that brought my food -food I refused to eat since I've been held in here- to appear. The moment he rounded the corner that led to my cell, I yanked off the pendant from my neck. I went instantly invisible. When the guard reached the cell and saw no one, the tray containing the food fell off his hands, and he let out a scream. Two more guards rushed in, probably thinking I managed to subdued their colleague. When they saw what he saw, they all trembled out of shock. "Report the incident to prince Eric right now!" One of the guards yelled to the other one that came in with him. That one nodded and rushed off to deliver the message. The guard turned to the one that brought me the food, looking at him in a suspicious way. "Did you let her off?" He asked."What the he
Ariel's POVIt felt like my ears just deceived me. I blinked once, then twice. I looked at the man who had just finished pleasuring me -the tingles and soreness between my legs were the testament of that fact- like he was out of his mind. And perhaps he was. Otherwise, why would he sprout such nonsense about arresting me? And that too for what? For stealing? Me?I looked at him and shook my head. Sure that I heard him wrong. I waited for him to take his words back, but he didn't. When a minute or two passed with nothing from him to refute his words, I lifted up my tied hands and tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention. The eyes he turned on me were so cold and stony, I shivered."Are you serious about arresting me?" I inquired from him. The river made a ripple effect and I was reminded of the fact that I was gone for too long. If I didn't return back to my room as soon as possible, there was every possibility that my father would find out about my disappearance. It that happen
Eric's POV "The real thing I have here could do a better job than that toy!" I shouted at her from the shadows. I watched as the toy fell from her hand because of the shock she experienced."Wh-who is th-there?" She sounded as scared as she felt. I saw her looking around in the darkness, probably thinking of where to hide from the predator that sneaked up on her. My first thought was to let her suffer a sudden heart attack, just as she had done for me. That would be the easiest revenge I could take on her. But my tratious body refused to comply with that act. How could it? Somehow, I found the courage to get out of the palace after three days of hiding in my room. My courage wasn't bold enough to leave during the day when I could feel all eyes on me, so I did it by night. I was already angry when I found myself walking to this place rather than anywhere else. I was even about to turn around when I heard someone moan my name softly. I traced the voice and I saw the same girl moaning
Ariel's POVFor three days after I returned to the house, I couldn't help but think about how I would be able to get my Dada to release me from the home imprisonment he kept me in. Even as I paced to and fro the length of the room I was in, no idea came to me. I balked at how it was becoming increasingly hard to think straight these days. Each time I sat down to think, only the thought of Eric and what he would do to me came. I would spend hours and hours fantasising about the man. By the time I realize that I needed to think of a way to get out of the mess I was in in order to actually see him, I would start thinking of an escape plan. Barely five minutes into the deep thinking, I would find myself thinking about Eric again... just like I currently was.I was floating on top of my bed. My hands were on my breasts and I kept culling and squeezing them the same way I saw Eric did that day at the beach. I moaned as I imagined it was his hands playing with my breasts instead of mine. St
Eric's POVAs mother continued to hold me, she patted my back softly with her hand. I knew I was displaying a moment of weakness to the queen, but at the stage where I currently was, none of all those palace rules mattered to me. I just wanted someone to show me that I wouldn't go crazy because of a certain human.Was she even hunan? Someone that could play with another's person's feelings like that didn't deserve to be regarded as a human. "She's a selfish, cunning, and the most heartless person I've ever seen!" I bursted out, unable to contain my contempt for the woman.My mum didn't say anything and just continued to pat me like she was already doing. The outburst, however, gave in to the anger I had been trying to rein in ever since I woke up that morning and found out about that girl's betrayal."How could she have deceived me like that?" I let out again.To me, she was stupid. If she wasn't, she would have realized that I was already infatuated with her. She could have easily d
Eric's POVI didn't know what to make of the situation that happened just a few minutes ago. Ever since I collapsed on my bed, I found it extremely hard to get up. How could I when it felt like my world was crumbling down beside me?I found it hard to believe within myself that the same girl I trusted enough to bring into the palace. The same girl I was so worried about I didn't want her to spend an entire night outside during the cold. The very same girl we spent the same night on the same bed, pleasuring each other to stupor. I couldn't believe that the same girl had thought nothing wrong about betraying me.How could I have been so draft? How could I have let her deceive me just like that? Why didn't I see beneath the fake skin she was wearing to the real one? Now that I thought about it, her excuse of getting lost while with her friends seemed flimsy. Heck, everything about her felt and sounded completely fake. I was sure that the reason she approached me in the first instance wa
CHAPTER THIRTEENARIEL'S POV Sebastian sat across me with an intense look in his eyes. I reckoned I would have the same look if someone sat me down to tell the exact story I was telling him at the moment.It happened to me yet somehow I found it unbelievable. It just felt like the kind of shit that should only be possible in movies. Poorly scripted movies."So you opened the door to the right-"I nodded. "I opened it."He leaned in closer to me almost as if he wanted to merge with me. His eyes bulged out in their socket and his teeth clattered. Goosebumps appeared all over my skin as I remembered how I felt in the dark corridor turning the door knob."I could have swore he was behind me- breathing just behind me." I said as I controlled the impulse to cringe.Sebastian gasped. "Was he there?"I shook my head. He wasn't there when I turned around but the presence didn't go away. It stuck with me even as the door opened."What did you find inside?" Flounder asked speaking for the first