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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