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London, Grosvenor Place, 1901

Once upon a time there was a prince with golden hair and dark green eyes. He fell in love with a princess whose mind was as sharp as her looks.

Her dazzling grey-blue eyes were something he longed to see, her voice a melody he never wanted to stop. She was everything he could have ever wanted in a person and he would've done anything to protect her from the world's harm.

For the longest time he was happy with the company the princess provided him. But just when he had convinced himself he may act upon his feelings, a prince from a neighboring kingdom told him that his mother the Queen had been unfaithful to his father the King.

In despair, the prince purchased from a faerie woman a potion that would force his mother to tell the truth. But when he gave it to her, she swooned away, near to death. The royal physicians came, and in their silence, they cured the Queen, but they could not save the child who would have been the next prince or princess of the realm. And worse, the truth was soon revealed: the Queen had never been unfaithful to the King.

The princess had been there to comfort him despite the news having not reached her yet. She held him in her arms, whispering sweet things to him while his heart grew numb.

There was only one thing keeping him from turning into the monster that he felt like and that was the princess who would forever have a hold on his heart without even knowing it.

It was then that the prince learned that innocence lost cannot be regained. There are stains that cannot be washed away. Not after years of repentance. Not in a whole lifetime of regret.

And the princess who he had given his heart to was someone who had suddenly became off limits in his eyes. He would not let the beauty of the girl be tainted with his own wickedness.

He would never be anything more than a beast and not even the princess was a beauty that could turn him back into a prince.

This was his curse and, after all that had happened, the prince welcomed it with open arms knowing that he would be destined to watch the beautiful princess find her happily ever after without him.

If only he knew that her happily ever after would only ever be with him.