CURSED KINGDOM- A Darker Steamier Version of Beauty and the Beast

Chapter 27

"Annie, Hun please wake up." I blink and look at James kneeling in front of me. "I need you to eat and drink something this morning." I go and try to sit up. He helps. Then he moves my legs to hang off the bed.

"How are you feeling today." He asks

Without looking at him I respond "fine." He takes my hands in his and kisses them.

"Please talk to me." He says, I look in his eyes. I can't get over this whole situation. It makes me so angry and frustrated. I also can't get over what he did. Even though he was drugged, and she was in disguise I am a horrible person for still being mad about that whole thing. I stand up and walk to the table and sit down. He has a pile of food waiting for me. I can't help but smile. He is so caring. I take a deep breath; he would not cheat on me unless he was drugged. Although I felt like I cheated on him.

"What happened." I say looking at him. Not wanting to finish the what happened to Ralph.

"I am not 100% sure. Ralph and his team are dead." He says walking to the table "I did not kill him, the Howls did. Although I wish I could have been the one to do it. It was weird, when we got there the howls did not even notice us, they went straight for Ralph and his team. Then it was like they knew we were looking for you, a few would run ahead, then stop and look at us. We knew they needed us to follow them. They led us to you, and even broke down the door. Then they let us leave.

"I guess they got their revenge." I say

"What do you mean?" He asks. I look at him.

"He created them, not the witch. They use to be other animals, and he has been experimenting with them."

"What" he said shaking his head.

"He also killed your father, and planned on over throwing you." He looked lost after I told him that.

"I was so close with him, and devested when he was gone. To think, this whole time I mourned him, he was plotted my death." That broke my heart, and I gave him a hug. He held me so close.

"I am so sorry Annie." He said then backed up a bit to look at my face. "This is all my fault." I smile at him.

"No, none of this is your fault. This happened because your uncle was twisted." He grabbed me again and gave me a hug.

"I feel like it is my fault, I promise to never let anything like this happen again. I will always protect you." He says. He then backed away, looking at me I could tell he had bad news.

"Blare escaped." He said growling "Until she is found you are not to leave without guards." I looked at him.

"Ok" I say, knowing she could still get to us. She poisoned us before, there are passage ways everywhere.

He looked at me again. "Annie, I love you. Nothing happened between Blare and me. The only reason you came in to see what you saw was because I was drugged. Both of us were drugged. Right after you left, I placed her in the dungeon, but she somehow escaped." I started to cry again. "Please don't cry, I am so sorry I hurt you." I stand up and look away from him.

"He did things to me." I say Shaking, tears still falling. James stands up and puts his arms around me.

"I'm so sorry this happened to you." He takes a deep breath "Did he force you too"

"No, he was planning on doing that when everything happened." I take a deep breath and hug him harder. "He was going to inject me with some sort of drug that would..." I can't finish that sentence. "Thank you for saving me." I whisper wiping the tears away.

"Always, I will always save you." He says smiling. "Please eat for me." He walks me back to the table and sits me down. We eat together, but in silence.

Later that day, James flew me down to my camper. We both just sit and watch the water fall. I am sitting on his lap with my head resting on his chest. We have 6 guards with us. 3 surrounding the campsite and 3 more scattered around the lake and creek.

Then I see a group walking to us. Nora, Terry and Margo run to me. I stand up and so does James. They all give me hugs. "We were so worried." I smile. I look at James. Where would I be without him. I love him so much.

"I'm ok." I say, then I remember what Ralph said to me about the curse. I am so selfish, why am I just now thinking about this. He saved my life, he told me he loved me, and yet I never told him how I felt.

"Give me one moment" I say to them. They nod and walk to the others. Everyone chats by the lake. I look at James.

"I love you." I say to him he smiles. Then pulls me in. "I have loved you for a long time, I am sorry I did not tell you sooner."

"You make me so happy. I don't know how you can love a beast like me, but I love you more than anything in this world. You are my world." He says. Then he steps away from me. Then a flash of pain goes across his face. Blinding light is making all of us close our eyes for a moment. I back away from him and other start coming closer. Wow I really did break the curse. I smile. I see his red skin turn tan, and claws turn to hands. I am in awe as I watch his transformation. Across the creek I see a flash of something shining.

I squint my eyes and I see that it is blare. She has such hatred in her face. She has a gun in her hand and aims it at James. I jump in front of James. One of the guards see her and shoots her in the head. She falls as she does, she squeezes the trigger. I look at James, it does not look like he was hit. Or at least not what I can see.

I turn to see James still glowing as his skin is still changing. No, she did not hit him. I see the guards walk over by Blare. I turn back around to look at James.

I suddenly feel my side start to hurt. I put my hand on it and it feels wet. I look at my hand, and it is covered in blood. Then my world starts to spin. Just fucking great, I break the curse just to get myself killed. I looked at James changing and smiled at least the curse is broken. All my friends are free. Looking at James, I smile and think he is going to be an amazing king. Then I let the darkness take me.