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"I will not waste h I will suffer this girl’s presence in rowled before a beast entered the roo coh he spoke crisply with careful enunciation He was no less terrifying to behold now than he was in the feoozyIf anything he wasbody looht of the fire

The maid scurried at his side, but the beast waved her away as he read the slates his other servants held out to hiitiutturally in his throat before he turned to Elle, as sinking low in the bed

"Your leg is broken Don’t move it or else Duval will do whatever needs to be done If you disrespect hi or not," the beastly prince said He turned on his hind legs--a movement that was too smooth to be human--and started for the door The ladies maid at Elle’s bedside knocked a stool over as she darted in front of the prince and again held her slate up

"What is your na around

Elle deliberated on her answer for a rowl "Elle"

"This is E has healed sufficiently for you to leave the castle"

He was out of the room before anyone else could push a slate in his direction

The barber-surgeon--the cursed prince had called hilass of liquid to Elle

Elle sniffed it, blinking when the contents burned her eyes and nose "Alcohol?"

Duval nodded and went back to wrapping Elle’s exposed leg

Elle took a swig of the drink and allass was going to get her drunk worse than a villager during Christ drunk was better than being fully conscious of the stabbing pain "Botto the drink back

When Elle finally woke fro had hardened to a plaster consistency The barber-surgeon was gone, and light leaked through the top of the heavy, velvet curtains that covered the s It was daylight