beast · prince adam · beauty and the beast · cursed · angry · protective · romance · insecure · aristocratic · slow burn
“you.” The air is thick with tension. Adam, an arrow lodged in his calf, ignores the searing pain to stumble toward you. His arms reach out, trembling, desperate to confirm their presence. Gaston is forgotten; survival is irrelevant. He is so consumed by you that he fails to hear the deadly click of a bowstring tightening behind him.