BEAST There are secrets hidden within the walls of this church. That secret is me. Beast.
It’s the name Father Cogsworth gave me when I was abandoned on the doorstep of Lumiere. The nuns scurry when they see me coming, and the priest, he did this to me.
I’m the face of evil. I know they’re right. The nuns… The priest. When I look in the mirror, I see the monster he created. When she shows up, and I find myself wanting to escape inside her.
Her presence makes me feel, and the beast doesn’t do feelings. I break everything that I touch but she isn’t scared of me. I should warn her but what fun would that be? I want her fear… I crave it. And if she tries to run, I plan to catch her, and drag her right back. BELLA My name instills fear into people. My father is the head of the Amorro mafia . A man you can’t say no to. That’s why I am to marry Gatson. As a mafia princess, I have to do what is expected of me. And marrying him will bring peace. When I’m told I need to brush up on our family’s history, and that the answers lie within the library, I didn’t expect to feel his eyes follow me everywhere I go. He thinks I’m unaware of his presence. Little does he know, I enjoy the chase. Everyone in this town knows who I am. But unlike them, he doesn’t look away in fear. What people don’t know, is that I’ve never been afraid of the monsters under my bed. They raised me. The library holds all the family’s secrets within its walls. Ones neither of us intended to uncover. Especially one secret… so dark it could send me to my grave.