Belle (More Than a Story Book 3)
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  • Reads 22,855
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  • Parts 16
  • Time 1h 55m
Complete, First published Sep 02, 2016
"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.
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