Beauty and the Beast (an erotic
re-imagining)
By
Shoshanna Evers
From
bestselling erotica author Shoshanna Evers comes an erotic re-imagining of the
classic fairytale, Beauty and the Beast.
With
her father’s freedom at stake, Belle agrees to be the fearsome Beast’s prisoner
in his enchanted castle. Held as his willing captive, Belle must submit to the
Beast’s most primal desires to survive.
The
Beast can’t let his little Beauty go free, not while there’s still hope that
she might be the one to end his decade-long curse…and with true love’s kiss,
return him to the Prince he once was.
Their
story is one that begins with imprisonment—he in his monstrous body, she in a
dungeon—but without this predicament, Beauty would never have met the Beast.
So
we shall begin with what occurred on that fateful night when everything
changed: when a lover was betrayed, a man deformed, and a castle shrouded in an
enchantment…
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Beast bared his fangs, and she cringed.
“Y-you’re smiling,” Belle said. It might take her a while to
get used to that.
“I am. I have a proposition for you.” He gently smoothed her
skirt back over burning bottom, and turned her around to face him. “I haven’t
had a woman in my bed for a very long time. If you’d be willing to sleep with
me, I’d reduce your lifetime imprisonment to one short year.”
Belle gasped, both at the idea of sleeping with him, and the
idea of a life sentence being reduced to a year.
“You’d crush me to death,” she said, looking up at his
towering hulk.
“I would not. Wasn’t I very gentle with you earlier, in your
cell, when I made you feel so amazing, as you put it? Right before you—”
Right before she cut him and ran. Yes, she could recall
something like that happening.
“It’s really not ‘willing’ if I must bed you for my
freedom,” she pointed out.
“Forget I said anything,” he growled. “I’ll see you safely
to your cell.”
“Wait!” She paused, frantic, not willing to give up her one
chance of freedom. And also not willing to give up a very rational excuse for
having more experiences like the one he’d given her earlier. “Three months.
Then I can go.”
“Six months, and you do everything I say.”
“It’s—It’s a deal, Beast.” She sighed. “I’m yours for six
months. And then you set me free and you forget all about me and my Papa.”
Beast smiled. Yes…definitely a smile. “I very much doubt I
will ever forget you, beauty. But I’ll never harm you.”
Her thoughts immediately flew to her sore bottom, at the way
he spanked her so thoroughly. Although, it was as he said. He’d hurt her, he
had not harmed her. She would remember her punishment when she sat down for a
day or two, but it wasn’t like he’d crippled her.
Or ate her. That was something to be grateful for.
Beast looked around his castle as though seeing it for the
first time. “I suppose, if you’ll be staying awhile, we could arrange more
suitable sleeping quarters for you.”
“In your bed,” she guessed.
“You’ll have your own suite.” He spoke louder, and Belle
realized he was probably summoning the fairies. “Belle will need a suite, with
a four poster bed, a bath, dresses in the armoire, and a fire ready for her.”
“The fairies can do all that?” she asked.
“Fairies?” He shook his head and began to say something, but
it just sounded like growling to her.
“Pardon?”
“Never mind. If you’d like to believe we have a fairy
infestation, then by all means. Believe what you will.” Beast gestured for her
to follow him up the stairs and into the west wing of the castle.
She followed, mesmerized by the glorious tapestries and
paintings that adorned the long hallways. Where had a beast gotten such wealth?
One oil painting, of a young man, about her age perhaps,
caught her eye. His handsome face seemed to draw her in. Belle stopped in front
of it, gazing at the portrait.
“He’s beautiful,” she whispered.
“Thank you,” Beast said. “I mean…I’m glad you appreciate the
art in my castle.”
There was something familiar about the young man’s intense
green eyes.
“Do I—do I know him?” she asked.
“Perhaps. You would have been a child when this portrait was
taken.”
She looked at the inscription on the gold plaque beneath the
portrait. It said “Prince Frederick,” and was dated ten years prior. That would
have been when she was nine years old, and certainly never out and about,
gazing into handsome princes’ green eyes.
“I suppose I don’t,” she said.
For some reason the thought made her sad. What had become of
that young man? Perhaps the portrait was from another country. She’d never
heard of a Prince Frederick before.
Beast kept walking down the corridor, so she followed.
“I imagine you ate everyone who lived in this castle,” Belle
said. “That’s why they aren’t here, and…you are.”
Beast whirled around, and she was so caught off guard that
she stumbled against his enormous chest.
“I’m sorry,” she gasped.
“That is not what happened.”
“The painting was ten years ago. Ten years ago, you changed.
You told me so. I was merely…taking an educated guess.”
“There was nothing educated about it,” Beast said. “And if
you’ll be staying under my roof for the next six months, you might want to
reconsider playing guessing games if you want us to get along.”
She put her hand to her mouth. “I apologize.”
“We’re here.” He stopped in front of a large door, with the
words “Belle’s Suite” etched into a small silver placard on the door. “If you
need anything—”
“I’ll just ask the fairies,” she finished for him.
“Um, yes. Exactly.”
“Will I be sleeping…uninterrupted?” She blushed as she spoke
the words, but she had to know if he’d be taking her up on their deal tonight.
“Dawn is almost here. Sleep as late as you’d like. I won’t
bother you until you come to me.”
“But…what if I never choose to…come to you?”
Beast raised his heavy brow. “Your six months begins when
you do. Take as long as you need.”
He held opened the door to her suite and she stepped inside,
reveling at the sight of the large four poster bed with the flowing white
linens, the glowing warmth of the fire burning in the fireplace, and most of
all…the roses. They were everywhere, the scent beckoning her.
“Good night, beauty.”
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Critically-acclaimed
author Shoshanna Evers has written dozens of sexy stories including
Amazon
Erotica Bestsellers Overheated, and Enslaved, Book 1 in the Enslaved Trilogy,
as well as the post-apocalyptic dystopian Pulse Trilogy from Simon &
Schuster Pocket Star. Her work has been
featured in Best Bondage Erotica 2012 and Best Bondage Erotica 2013, the
Penguin/Berkley Heat anthology Agony/Ecstasy, and numerous erotic BDSM novellas
including Chastity Belt and Punishing the Art Thief from Ellora's Cave
Publishing.
The
non-fiction anthology Shoshanna Evers edited and contributed to, How To Write
Hot Sex: Tips from Multi-Published Erotic Romance Authors, is a #1 Bestseller
in the Authorship, Erotica Writing Reference, and Romance Writing categories on
Amazon.
Reviewers
have called Shoshanna’s writing “fast paced, intense, and sexual…every naughty
fantasy come to life for the reader” with stories where “the plot is fresh and
the pacing excellent, the emotions…real and poignant.”
Shoshanna
used to work as a syndicated advice columnist and a registered nurse, but now
she’s a full-time smut writer and a home-schooling mom. She lives with her
family and two big dogs in Northern Idaho.
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5 comments:
I loved the excerpt from the book and can't wait to read it. So excited for u Shoshanna! Happy V-day :)
Thank you so much for featuring Beauty and the Beast today! Happy Valentine's Day! xo
Happy Valentine's Day! I love the premise.
I like how he left the decision up to her on when she starts her six months. That was kind of slick!
Can't wait to find out the background story.
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