Beauty and The Beast: Chapter 11
Rose slept on the mattress on the floor where she had slumbered so happily with The Beast the night before. In the morning, The Beast brought her breakfast as always, but she rolled to face away from him and refused to speak until he set down his tray and left her alone. When she was sure he had left the house, she went downstairs and gathered supplies for herself. She took bread and fruit from the pantry and visited the library, where she found as book that presented itself as an autobiography of someone calling themselves Moll Flanders. Tomorrow she would worry about the future. Today her only concern was to mourn what could have been. ***********ing a bedroom at random, she threw herself onto the bed, flipped open the book, bit into an apple …