His sheer size was already terrifying. Xxx Eventually, Rose became aware of how long she had been talking. The Bard, of course, but not only him. The Beast, by contrast, quizzed her intently on the minutiae of her life, asked her opinion on the topics that arose, and requested clarification when her answers did not fully satisfy him. “Your education sacrificed in the name of the vapidity that calls itself society – that is intolerable! I will not have a girl in my household who does not apply herself to the written word. At home, her family had always spoken of their own affairs. “I can’t really read,” she admitted. The doors down the corridor had been opened and the curtains in the rooms beyond them thrown wide so that daylight streamed in to the space.
