Bella and the Beast 4

Chapter 4: Beast

I 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