His fingers explored her body. Tomorrow it would all be over. xxx Or perhaps, he thought, she will sing when I give her a proper reason. Though she’d seen it only once more, again leaving via the balcony window across the way, she was certain that it stalked the grounds every night, and now that she knew what to look for she found signs of its coming and going every morning. She backed away as it came in, the whiskers around its muzzle twitching as its lips pulled back around the warning growl. Her knees were sore and her arms were close to giving out, but if she let herself fall her own weight and momentum would snap her neck in the Beast’s jaws, so she had to remain upright.
