Chapter Fifty Nine

She hugged him tightly

‘You have no choice, you must live for our daughter’

A week later she was dead and Gaston kept his promise, Belle was at school and the village was quiet as he carried her body and placed it into his truck. He drove to the outskirts of town the turned down a hidden track bumping along until he reached the circle of stones and pulled it to a stop. Gently he carried Agathe and placed her into the middle of the circle. He stood for a minute looking down at her beautiful face then opened the small book she had given him,

‘Left in despair

Promises broken

Forget and forgive

Never a truer word spoken

A body returned

A lesson learned

No more I can run

My life here is done

This rebel defeated

Your circle again completed’

Gaston placed the book on Agathe chest folding her hands over it, tenderly he kissed her ice cold lips and then stepped back out of the circle. For a few minutes, nothing happened then a blinding white light enveloped Agathe’s body and she seemed to glow