"Then take me."
Hiro's breathing stopped, or so he thought. "What?" he carefully asked.
"It is inevitable now that the King may do whatever he pleases to me. So I beg you, take me. Make my first a happy one to remember. Please Hiro."
Hiro looked at his beautiful Denaire. He knew it wasn't yet the right time. He knew it wasn't. But the idea of her under the King makes him want to murder the King even more.
"Denaire, you could always back out. I'll kill him for you."
"Hiro," Denaire clutched Hiro's robe. "You know I don't want you to get killed."
"And you'd rather he'd kill you? Is that what you want?"
"No. He wouldn't kill me. The main reason he wanted to marry me is to spite you."
"What?" Hiro asked in surprise.
"The King told me how you always turned down his invites in his parti
