It was not only his kindness that attracted her, but also the times he had treated her poorly. xxx18 She had no idea where The Beast slept, but she knew if she found it she would be closing the door and moving on. She would learn poise and cultivation. More than that, she enjoyed dong as she was told. She realised that she was not being honest with herself. That was her plan, and she would stick to it. Rose fled. When the lesson was nearly over, she turned the page to find she had reached the book’s concluding lines: a poem for the dead.
