Bab 98: Chapter 98

The taste of Shereen lingered on Darius's lips, but the real frustration throbbed below the belt. Probably a good thing they were interrupted before he did something that might change things forever.

He'd heard enough stories - some short, most tall - to know that kissing a princess was bad. The poor sod kissing had a tendency of being suddenly wedded to a stranger, getting eaten, or turned into some kind of monster. It depended on the tale.

What would be his fate for kissing a princess? Thoroughly, too. And while she was awake. The prince in that story got his head chopped off for kissing without permission.

However, he should have never actually laid his lips on hers. A pirate could not get involved with a princess. He'd just sail her up the river and drop her off.

That was the plan. He could already predict it would fail.