She didn't go because her father sent her.
She went because she wanted to.
The debt was real. The beast was real. And Evangeline had been watching the castle from her bedroom window since she was twelve years old, waiting for a reason that was good enough.
She closed her fist around one of his roses the first week. Let the thorns cut her palm. Waited to see what he'd do.
He cleaned the wound like she was something worth being careful with.
Willing is a Beauty and the Beast retelling told from the inside out - not the story of a woman who learns to love a monster, but a woman who already knew what she wanted and walked through the gate anyway. Dark, patient, and entirely on her own terms.
Book Two of the TK Veil Fairy Tale Series.