On the other side of the door, Princess Brynne Isleyn smiled to herself as she eavesdropped on the pirate and his first mate. Everything was going according to plan, so far. She’d be damned if she was going to marry the old, decrepit king her father was trying to marry her off to. She’d rather die.

So, she came up with an ingenious plan to escape her unwanted betrothal. She contracted the most adept thief in the kingdom to steal her dowry from her father’s treasury. The thief was allowed to keep two million of the six million gold pieces. Brynne paid a courier one million gold pieces to keep the remaining three million gold pieces safe at sea until Captain Callahan completed the instructions she’d sent him in her letter.

Of course, he thought he was working or a neighboring kingdom. She chuckled to herself, shaking her head. The poor fool had only tied her hands. It was time to begin playing her part. Brynne banged on the heavy wooden door with her tied hands, crying out in the most indignant voice she could muster.

“Where the bloody hell am I? I don’t know who you are, but I demand an audience!”

Brynne struggled to suppress a grin when she heard both men go still, and one swore quietly.

~To Be Continued~