The Pirate Prince by Michelle M. Pillow

Author:Michelle M. Pillow [Pillow, Michelle M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781603940108
Published: 2011-03-15T04:00:00+00:00

“You are the women I saw running?” she whispered, staring at Lucien and Viktor.

The men began laughing, all but the two Dere brothers who looked sheepishly at the ground. Jarek watched, impressed by her quick observation. “You are, aren’t you? You are thepu ren I saw running away from Emperor Song’s palace.”

“Ah, well, you see....” Viktor began.

“It’s not what you think,” Lucien inserted, kicking at the floor. “We didn’t like it.”

“We don’t do that,” Viktor added. “You know, wear women’s clothing like that.”

“We had to,” Lucien said.

“You two appeared to enjoy it to me,” Lochlann teased wryly.

Mei stepped closer, studying all of them intently. Finally, her dark eyes turned to Jarek. His gut tightened in response. She just had that affect on him. He couldn’t breathe when she looked directly at him. It was a shock of electricity through his system, like

someone took a phazer to his heart.

Sacred Cats! She was beautiful. Everything seemed to go into slow motion as he stared at her. His body ached just to be near her. And she intrigued him too. Everything about her utterly and completely fascinated him.

“There are no other women on this ship, are there?” she demanded.

Jarek gave a sheepish grin and shrugged. Stepping forward slowly, she stopped to run her finger lightly over his chest. She looked at him and smiled, completely unashamed by what the others might assume from the gesture. In fact, her eyes claimed him, as did her open expression. Her hand stopped above his heartbeat and she stood, gazing up at him as if she wanted the crew to know she was his. “What did you take from Emperor Song?” Mei kept her hand on his chest, as she looked them over, one by one.

Lucien and Viktor cleared their throats and looked away. Evan and Jackson turned back to work on repairs. Dev didn’t move. Lochlann grinned. “Who says we took anything?” Jarek asked, looking down at her. He liked that she wasn’t embarrassed to be his woman.

“So, what? You went to Emperor Song’s palace just so you could streak though it in women’s clothing? And now you’re going back there to do it again?” Mei nodded mockingly. “Or is it you are going to look for this Rick who is missing? And, for some reason, you believe Emperor Song has him as a prisoner?” “We mean no harm to your Emperor,” Jarek assured her, amazed at her perception.

“Emperor Song?” Mei laughed. “He is not my Emperor. Singhai is not my empire.”

“You were a prisoner?” Dev asked. Jarek’s heart squeezed in his chest to think of her in harm’s way.

“Have you seen Rick in the prisons? You know him?” “No. I was a guest of Emperor Song’s,” Mei said.

Her eyes stayed trained on his.

“And I don’t know your Rick.”

“Then why did you try to escape, if you were just a guest?” Jarek didn’t really have anything to hide from his crew. Not in this. When it came down to it, regardless of what he was feeling, her presence on the ship affected them all.

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