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Beauty and the Beast
by Shoshanna Evers
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Beauty and the Beast (an erotic re-imagining)
releases on Valentine's Day, February 14th, 2014,
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With her father’s freedom at stake, Belle agrees to be the fearsome Beast’s prisoner in his enchanted castle. Held as his willing captive, Belle must submit to the Beast’s most primal desires to survive.
The Beast can’t let his little Beauty go free, not while there’s still hope that she might be the one to end his decade-long curse…and with true love’s kiss, return him to the Prince he once was.
Their story is one that begins with imprisonment—he in his monstrous body, she in a dungeon—but without this predicament, Beauty would never have met the Beast.
So we shall begin with what occurred on that fateful night when everything changed: when a lover was betrayed, a man deformed, and a castle shrouded in an enchantment…
Beauty and the Beast (an erotic re-imagining) releases Valentine's Day, February 14th, 2014!
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Excerpt from Beauty and the Beast (an erotic re-imagining) by Shoshanna Evers
Copyright 2013 Shoshanna Evers
All Rights Reserved.
Beast bared his
fangs, and she cringed.
“Y-you’re smiling,”
she said. It might take her a while to get used to that.
“I am. I have a
proposition for you.” He gently smoothed her skirt back over burning bottom,
and turned her around to face him. “I haven’t had a woman in my bed for a very
long time. If you’d be willing to sleep with me, I’d reduce your lifetime
imprisonment to one short year.”
Belle gasped, both
at the idea of sleeping with him, and the idea of a life sentence being reduced
to a year.
“You’d crush me to
death,” she said, looking up at his towering hulk.
“I would not. Wasn’t
I very gentle with you earlier, in your cell, when I made you feel so amazing,
as you put it? Right before you—”
Right before she
cut him and ran. Yes, she could recall something like that happening.
“It’s really not ‘willing’
if I must bed you for my freedom,” she pointed out.
“Forget I said anything,”
he growled. “I’ll see you safely to your cell.”
“Wait!” She paused,
frantic, not willing to give up her one chance of freedom. And also not willing
to give up a very rational excuse for having more experiences like the one he’d
given her earlier. “Three months. Then I can go.”
“Six months, and
you do everything I say.”
“It’s—It’s a deal,
Beast.” She sighed. “I’m yours for six months. And then you set me free and you
forget all about me and my Papa.”
Beast smiled.
Yes…definitely a smile. “I very much doubt I will ever forget you, beauty. But
I’ll never harm you.”
Her thoughts
immediately flew to her sore bottom, at the way he spanked her so thoroughly.
Although, it was as he said. He’d hurt her, he had not harmed her. She would
remember her punishment when she sat down for a day or two, but it wasn’t like
he’d crippled her.
Or ate her. That
was something to be grateful for.
Beast looked around
his castle as though seeing it for the first time. “I suppose, if you’ll be
staying awhile, we could arrange more suitable sleeping quarters for you.”
“In your bed,” she
guessed.
“You’ll have your
own suite.” He spoke louder, and Belle realized he was probably summoning the
fairies. “Belle will need a suite, with a four poster bed, a bath, dresses in
the armoire, and a fire ready for her.”
“The fairies can do
all that?” she asked.
“Fairies?” He shook
his head and began to say something, but it just sounded like growling to her.
“Pardon?”
“Never mind. If you’d
like to believe we have a fairy infestation, then by all means. Believe what
you will.” Beast gestured for her to follow him up the stairs and into the west
wing of the castle.
She followed,
mesmerized by the glorious tapestries and paintings that adorned the long
hallways. Where had a beast gotten such wealth?
One oil painting,
of a young man, about her age perhaps, caught her eye. His handsome face seemed
to draw her in. Belle stopped in front of it, gazing at the portrait.
“He’s beautiful,”
she whispered.
“Thank you,” Beast
said. “I mean…I’m glad you appreciate the art in my castle.”
There was something
familiar about the young man’s intense green eyes.
“Do I—do I know
him?” she asked.
“Perhaps. You would
have been a child when this portrait was taken.”
She looked at the
inscription on the gold plaque beneath the portrait. It said “Prince Frederick,”
and was dated ten years prior. That would have been when she was nine years
old, and certainly never out and about, gazing into handsome princes’ green
eyes.
“I suppose I don’t,”
she said.
For some reason the
thought made her sad. What had become of that young man? Perhaps the portrait
was from another country. She’d never heard of a Prince Frederick before.
Beast kept walking
down the corridor, so she followed.
“I imagine you ate
everyone who lived in this castle,” Belle said. “That’s why they aren’t here,
and…you are.”
Beast whirled
around, and she was so caught off guard that she stumbled against his enormous
chest.
“I’m sorry,” she
gasped.
“That is not what
happened.”
“The painting was
ten years ago. Ten years ago, you changed. You told me so. I was merely…taking
an educated guess.”
“There was nothing
educated about it,” Beast said. “And if you’ll be staying under my roof for the
next six months, you might want to reconsider playing guessing games if you want
us to get along.”
She put her hand to
her mouth. “I apologize.”
“We’re here.” He
stopped in front of a large door, with the words “Belle’s Suite” etched into a
small silver placard on the door. “If you need anything—”
“I’ll just ask the
fairies,” she finished for him.
“Um, yes. Exactly.”
“Will I be
sleeping…uninterrupted?” She blushed as she spoke the words, but she had to
know if he’d be taking her up on their deal tonight.
“Dawn is almost
here. Sleep as late as you’d like. I won’t bother you until you come to me.”
“But…what if I never choose to…come to you?”
Beast raised his
heavy brow. “Your six months begins when you do. Take as long as you need.”
He held opened the
door to her suite and she stepped inside, reveling at the sight of the large
four poster bed with the flowing white linens, the glowing warmth of the fire
burning in the fireplace, and most of all…the roses. They were everywhere, the
scent beckoning her.
“Good night,
beauty.”
I think that is an important things in some writings. I can remember those authors, who made their context like the main character.
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