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Beauty and the Mountain Man

A True Mountain ManFor you … because every beauty needs a beastChapter OneRonanIt’s going to be another cold, lonely night in this mountainside mansion

Running a hand through round blanketed in white The snow falls hard, and the sky grows dark and all I can think about is, what comes next? My future seems as blank as the landscape before me

It’s certainly not this town that keepsit a town at all is a stretch Not that I’ve spent much time there

No, it’swish that has ton She built it in her last year of life, while I was living in the Swiss Alps as the general contractor forby her side He never let on how ill she was, but why did I listen to thatmy heart?

I’ll never ain

But now she’s gone and I’h, so in my life

God knows it’s ti for more

I knew ht she had more time That we all had more time with her

But time is a trick And it played me for a fool

When I finally caone

And I’ll regret it for the rest of my life

She needed me, and I wasn’t here for her

So, living in her ho this place up, is the least I can do to keep her memory alive

Even though I don’t deserve anything good I didn’t even hold

What kind of man am I?

I shake my head at my reflection in theI’m not a man at all

I’m a beast

What kind of ?