Bend Her: A Dark Beauty and the Beast Fantasy Romance is the story of Rhaim the All-Beast, a cruel Beast mage doomed to die at the hands of the woman he must protect at all costs, and Lisane, the sheltered Princess of Tears, who has been given into his care and who needs him to teach her magic so she can be free-no matter how much it might hurt her.
And I. she was mine, to do with as I pleased. . .
Which meant in the present .
She knew nothing about my fate or future with her, or how she was destined to kill me.
She had no idea who I was, or what we were to each other.
And so, when a group of soldiers brought a bound and drugged woman to my doorstep, to bribe me to fight in their war, and pulled the bag off of her head and I saw her there-the woman from the vision at my Ascension, and who has haunted my dreams ever since-I knew it was the beginning of my end.
There is no amount of magic that can escape it.
You need to know, deep in your bones and now scarred on your skin, that while there are things in the world you can change with your powers, death comes for us all.
In all instances, we\'re told, the reasoning behind the visions is the same: if you\'re strong enough to be trusted with powers, then you must learn to accept the hand of fate, as surely as you\'d earned it as your mage-mark.
Some men see snowy peaks or waterfalls, others bucking horses, and some lucky few see themselves with old and wrinkled hands, passing peacefully in their sleep. ◆◆◆ Rhaim the All-Beast: Every mage gets one clear vision on the eve of their Ascension into their full powers, right before they get the brand of their mage-mark: you see the thing that will cause your absolute demise.
I had been kidnapped.
The very thing my father had been afraid of for me for my whole life-and the reason I lived in a gilded cage, only getting to leave the palace when I had throne-sworn mages by my side-had apparently happened.
Tied up, in the dark, on the ground, with a bag around my head.
Wherever here was.
And now I was here. . .
The last thing I could recall was being in a carriage...
We\'d been running away from the Deathless .
But I wasn\'t accustomed to my own breath hot against my face, or the rough feeling of fabric against my cheek-or knowing that my wrists were tied behind my back, painfully tight.
Lisane: My whole life, I had been a creature used to candlelight. . .
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Bend Her: A Dark Beauty and the Beast Fantasy Romance is the story of Rhaim the All-Beast, a cruel Beast mage doomed to die at the hands of the woman he must protect at all costs, and Lisane, the sheltered Princess of Tears, who has been given into his care and who needs him to teach her magic so she can be free-no matter how much it might hurt her
