Business of the Beast (34)

Zane woke the next morning with a hangover from hell. He found a note with some pills.

[Snap out of it and get back to work. The Company needs you.

Dad]

If the company need him then the company would have him.

He dress in a high end suite and left for the office.

The Beast was here. Deals where made and rejected. Project were sent back to the planning table. Everyone that had to deal with him was shaking.

He fired three people for being incompetent. He was being the power house he was born to be.

His father wanted him to run this company and he would make everyone of them to wish he was dead.

By the time mid day came. He crushed three companys. As he poured himself a glass of scotch he heard a voice.

"Is that the mail clerk?" he called out to his secretary.

"Yes Sir." She said.

"Send him in here."

He sat on his couch with the glass next to his forehead.

"Yes, Mr. Heart?" Robert Beauté said.

"How is she?" he whispered.

"You have no right to ask now."

"Please, I need to know." He looked up and Robert could see the pain in is eyes.

"She hurt herself smashing a mirror. Then completely broke down. I had to commit her. She won't say a word."

"Send me the bills for her care. It's the least I can do."

"When Bella lost her mother she withdrew from us. She sat all day and read Fairytales. It took a lot to bring her back. That's why she worked so hard to keep going. I don't think she'll come back from this. We take care of the ones we love we don't need your kind of help." He walked out.

Zane sat there what choice did he have.

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The first said, "Who has been sitting on my stool?"

The second, "Who has been eating off my plate?"

The third, "Who has been picking at my bread?"

The fourth, "Who has been meddling with my spoon?"

The fifth, "Who has been handling my fork?"

The sixth, "Who has been cutting with my knife?"

The seventh, "Who has been drinking my wine?"

Then the first looked around and said, "Who has been lying on my bed?"

And the rest came running to him, and every one cried out that somebody had been upon his bed. But the seventh saw Snow-White, and called upon his brethren to come and look at her; and they cried out with wonder and astonishment, and brought their lamps and gazing upon her, they said, "Good heavens! what a lovely child she is!"

And they were delighted to see her, and took care not to waken her; and the seventh dwarf slept an hour with each of the other dwarfs in turn, till the night was gone.

In the morning Snow-White told them all her story, and they pitied her, and said if she would keep all things in order, and cook and wash, and knit and spin for them, she might stay where she was, and they would take good care of her.

Then they went out all day long to their work, seeking for gold and silver in the mountains; and Snow-White remained at home; and they warned her, saying, "The queen will soon find out where you are, so take care and let no one in."

But the queen, now that she thought Snow-White was dead, believed that she was certainly the handsomest lady in the land; so she went to her glass and said--

"Tell me, glass, tell me true! Of all the ladies in the land, Who is fairest? tell me who?"

And the glass answered-- "Thou, Queen, thou are fairest in all this land; But over the Hills, in the greenwood shade, Where the seven dwarfs their dwelling have made, There Snow-White is hiding; and she Is lovelier far, O Queen, than thee."

Then the queen was very much alarmed; for she knew that the glass always spoke the truth, and she was sure that the servant had betrayed her.

And as she could not bear to think that any one lived who was more beautiful than she was, she disguised herself as an old pedlar woman and went her way over the hills to the place where the dwarfs dwelt.

Then she knocked at the door and cried, "Fine wares to sell!"

Snow-White looked out of the window, and said, "Good day, good woman; what have you to sell?"

"Good wares, fine wares," replied she; "laces and bobbins of all colors."

"I will let the old lady in; she seems to be a very good sort of a body," thought Snow-White; so she ran down, and unbolted the door.

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The nurse came in and reached for the book. Bella pulled it tight to her chest.

"Miss it all right. The book needs to stay here. You need a shower and then we will doctor your wounds.

It took two men to get her book and she was bathed and dressed. She ate what the hand feed her. But she still did nothing on her own.

When she returned to the room the nurse handed her the book and Bella hugged it close. "I said you could have it back. See we took good care of it."

Betty and Babs showed up with a few clothing and personal items. Bella just sat there while Betty brushed Bella's hair.

"Bella, I have decided to start a party planning business. When you get well you can help me. Babs is working at the library now, so if you need books just tell her. The book you have now will need to go back. It was already reserved or we would just check it out again. So we all chipped in and got you one of your own. It will be hear tomorrow."

Bella let her hair be brushed but still no movement. Was this her fault, she had always been mean to her but now she did not know why she did it.