trueblue132
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- Parts 16
"Take me instead." I said with no hesitation.
I felt my father's cold fingers wrap around mine through the steel bars. "Belle, no." He was cut off by another body rattling coughing fit.
I don't know how I knew, but the man hidden in the shadows softened somehow, thinking over my proposition. "You would...take his place?"
Papa yelled out more protest, but I ignored them for now. "If I did...would you let him go?"
"Yes..but you would have to stay here forever."
I bowed my head, my mahogany waves come forward as a curtain to hide the shame written on my face. Forever?...Was I really willing to give up my freedom to a man who I just met?
"You have my word." I heard myself say
"Done." He sneered as he dragged my father by his shirt collar, leading him up the stairs and out of the damp dungeon.