Me??
He turns back to face Beauty silhouetted by the night sky. I marked you and this bond between us is different, you're different. His hands twist into shaking fist at his sides. You can feel my pain my emotions that's not normal .....He said. I have no idea what will happen tobyoh if I die. His words settle ober Beauty lile fallen snow gentle at first then colder and colder. He's right the bond could mean.....
I'm so sorry Beauty.....
Alarik turns away again gripping the ledge with white knuckles. I've brought you to this deadly place taken your freedom and now....I may have sentenced you to a death far more worse than the one Xander was going to give. The stone beneath his grasps crack with the force of his anguish. I don't expect tg 6ok to forgive me ....He said. Beauty stare at Alarik shaking witb anger in the darkness. He looks so ashamed but this isn't his fault....Beauty thought.
Without a second thought Beauty close the distance between them wrapping her arms around his broad back.
You have nothing to apologize for Alarik. None of this is your fault. She whisper to him. For a moment he doesn't move. And that didn't matter to Beauty. She hurries her face in his warm muscular back. His heart beats loudly against her ears. You said it yourself you never wanted to mark me...I don't blame you. And if it means i die in 39 days....then I die...She said to him.
Beauty...
I don't car ed I'll accept my fate as it comes. Just lile you are accepting yours ....you're brave Alarik. I'll be brave to.
Suddenly his large arms fold over Beauty body pulling her to him in relief. You are stronger than you look...He commented. He tucks a hair behind her ear his brows burrowing when he makes contact with her cheek. You are shaking let's go inside.....He said.
But Xander improbably waiting for us in your room. We are not goung to my room..He told her.
Before she could ask more question, Alarik leads her back inside. She wind through the secret passage....
They came to a hall with many doors. Behind each door Beauty hears moans of ecstasy, chains clinking, gasps and pleas.
Wait is that a....
Shhh....Alarik kn cut her of.
He pulls her into a room and thrust the door shut. Whennbeauth looks around her heart begins to pound. Whips,gags ,and other devices line in the walls. The bed might as well be a cave adorned with thick iron cuffs.
This better be a hiding place and nothing more...She said.
It's a brothel...He answered.
That doesn't answer my question. Alarik strides over to a dresser picking up a particular piece of lingerie.