Chapter 26: Further Investigations

*Princess Belasarius*

Keeping my new relationship with Gravestone a secret was no easy feat when my father was away, when he got back--and when he learned of the attempt on my life and thus beefed up security around me--it got even harder.

Not because Gravestone and I weren’t good liars, far from it. One of the things we were on the same page with was how easy it was to lie to get what we wanted.

No, the problem was the fact that me and Gravestone had trouble keeping our hands to ourselves for more than five minutes.

“Seriously?” I hissed, while the man merely smirked back in that way he knew damn well made my knees turn to jelly. We were in the library, people all over the place, hell, people across the room with their backs turned. Any one of them could have spied my bodyguard getting a moment’s handful of my a*s, as short yet…striking, a moment as it was, and yet he just had to run the meter.