A taste of the next scene in “Beautiful Creature…”
Pain soured his face as he inched another step closer. “I have much to atone for in this world, but I am no one’s servant now but yours.”
Those words warmed her heart, and as much as she could have tasted his addictive lips again for it, her mind still weighed his words for lies. “If you are so repentant, so dedicated to healing, why be a voice in the night and take me away? Why not just come forward in the manner noble heroes do?” she insisted.
His head cocked to the side, eyes flashing in dark, incredulous humor. “Oh and show up at your brother’s court and introduce myself? Yes, greetings Your Highness, it is I, Lord Sauron. I want to begin by first apologizing for throwing you and your men to the werewolves in Tol-in-Gaurhoth, but I have since changed. I am warning you of a darkness far greater than I could wield, and I am here to help you fight it.” He smirked wickedly, “Oh, and as for your beautiful and fearsome sister you have oppressed for decades under the guise of protecting her, I would take her for my own. No,” he sneered, “I have not the luxury of showing my true self among the noble heroes that ride in the sunlight and ask for the hand of the princess.”
Posting tomorrow on my AO3