Chapter 6
Belle looked at her disheveled father confused. “How did you get here, Papa? You were supposed to be heading into the city.”
“Oh, Belle, I was. I was a day’s journey in when night came and I climbed into the carriage to get some sleep. When I woke up the carriage was moving and it was still dark. I couldn’t figure out where I was. There was frost on the ground, Belle. How could there be frost on the ground in late spring? Then after circling around for a day, the wolves attacked.”
“Oh, papa,” Belle said terrified for her father even now.
“They chased Tebo and me for miles. Belle, I lost the clock. I was going to use the money from it to move you away from our horrible village,” her father said heartbroken.
Belle thought back to the broken clock she had seen on her way there.
