I Hate to Love the Pirate King
Cover is a placeholder. Midjourneying isn't easy. I spend at least 20 seconds per prompt. "Look at you," he growled. "All bothered because of a filthy pirate. How can you live with yourself when you clearly want me so much?" -- --- How can she want him dead so badly when she desires him? --- #FANTASY #WSA2022 --- Mature content, violence, slow burn and dark themes. You've been warned. This is not your average fantasy love story despite the bad boy theme. --- Mariana Adams is a young woman in her early twenties, living in the fantastical world of Ad Rath, which is plagued by ghosts, sea monsters and ancient curses. She gathers herself a crew of battle-hardened privateers to hunt down her ex, the pirate king Captain Daniel Brandon. Their years together haunt Mariana, as does his betrayal...but how come can't she keep her eyes off him? Even when she finds out her fate as a savior of the world in a battle against ancient monsters, she keeps coming back to him across the ocean in this game of cat and mouse. On and off. Hot and cold. It's dangerous, but it's so addictive...but what if Daniel is even more demonic than she has thought? What if he keeps her in his domineering, hypnotic allure and won't let go? What does he really want from her? Her body? Her hatred? Her love? When angels and demons fall in love in a world of magic where anything can happen on the high seas, skies will crumble and hearts will be broken. There is only one rule in magic... You cannot forbid a heart from desiring. --- This is a bad boy / good-ish girl SLOW BURN love story set in a high fantasy world that may be familiar to you from Water Belongs to the Dead: Heart of the Witch and Evil Occultist. Set in a time of pirates, magnificent treasure ships and witches, I Hate to Love the Pirate King will plunder your heart. --- discord link finally. it's an actual functioning server afaik: https://discord.gg/tmeZKG5dqT
Do They Maroon Angels?
"You need to touch him," Daniel said. "Touching him will send him back to where he came from. Do it!"
Mariana didn't need to hear that twice. Although Dars made an attempt to run with her, Mariana's new, awakened body was faster. She sprang towards him like a cat or a fox.
She put her hand on his face. For a moment, she thought she would get bitten, but then Dars started to scream.
So, he had been the actual source of the scream.
He was shriveling up like someone suffering from old age, although this was a vastly faster process. His rapid deterioration left Mariana holding a skull covered in skin that was so brittle that it became black powder when she squeezed it.
"Ew," she said. "That's disgusting."
"Angels don't say ew," Daniel said and got up, clutching his wounded left leg.
It didn't seem like there was any damage done to his arteries, but it was still a wound, it needed to be dealt with.