Don't Mess with Me by D.A.Sanford - HTML preview

The Widow Maker

There is some woman that drives an all black pod racer that is tricked out to the max. She has never taken off the black skin tight leathers she wears and that helmet always stays on with the smoke colored visor down. She is a total mystery. She never speaks but her pod racer says it all. Emblazoned on each side is the words “Widow Maker” in blood red including the look of those letters dripping.

No man has ever beaten her in a race. No contest. Even so, there is always someone that wants to beat her. Always someone that goes down in defeat. I want someone like that for my mate.

I am the heir apparent to the kingdom. Corruption is rampant and my father, the king, is old and wants to step down. The only thing stopping him is the fact that I do not have a wife.

Father’s do have a tendency to go behind backs and mine is the same. I am summoned to the throne room.

A conniving father of three daughters wants one of his as queen. Cindy is the oldest, Sharon is the middle and Josaline if the youngest. The first two are already engaged but they are the cutthroat type. Each will dump those engagements in a heartbeat. .

Those three strike me as not the ones. Cindy is an I want it all, I’m oldest and most important. Sharon is her pet dog. Very subservient to her with no other wish than being with Cindy forever. They both are engaged to different men so that would mean going to different families.

Josaline being the youngest seem to have interests in other directions and has refused any engagement presented. After all being engaged to a third daughter is low in any family.

The first two are looking like a hungry dog waiting for a chance to steal the steak off the masters plate. The youngest looks pissed that she has to be here. She looks like she has better things to do.

My father already knows that the first two are promised and tells their father that they will not be considered. The man seems totally dejected but he now is pitching the third.

I stop the fathers, looking at her, “That one only wants to get out of the room. She does not care about this in the least. This is a farce. There is only one for me, that is the Widow Maker. I have a plan to beat her in battle. She is the only one that shows the determination to stand by me or up to me. She will make me whole. I don’t care what she looks like under that black leather. I don’t care if she is noble or commoner. I must best her to make her mine.”

I tell my father that none of these will do. “I won’t allow an engagement to be broken, especially to those two gold diggers that would dump those contracts to be queen. That third one is only getting mad the longer she is here.

Looking at her I say, “I am not arrogant, I’m sorry that both of us have been dragged into this. May you find the one that is yours, not their wishes.”

I leave the room. There is work to be done on my racer and I have a woman to beat

He wants the widow maker because she is independent. She is bold and she is ruthless. She is everything he sees as his ideal mate. He could have the royal backing and order the guards to bring her in and marry her but he feels that she needs to be conquered in a battle of iron verses iron.

She built her pod racer by herself away from her family. She made her outfit herself. By beating all challengers, she did hear others start to call her the widow maker. She liked that and the next race day that was painted on the pod. Even that car was all black. Black deep enough to swallow up all light and all hope.

The prince has taken the same disguise as she does but he decides that he wants all white with a smoked visor.

The heir has the same drive but each race, she beats him every time. He does gain her respect. All others quit challenging her and then spread rumors about cheating in some way. He does not. He holds his head high and admits defeat vowing to come back stronger.

After getting beaten for the fifth time, he really looks at her speeder. Something that was right in his face is noticed by him for the first time. Underneath the normal front air intake are two inconspicuous air scoops. They look like ones that would be on the side for pilot cooling but the placement says something very special. He knows what it is.

Back at his workshop, he thinks and works out what it likely is. Most likely an intercooler power booster that needs special cooling. He modifies his pod but he uses a special one that is only available to the military. Being a prince has its privileges. The one thing is that the cooling scoops are on top and behind the canopy. The air is cooler by a few degrees on the top surface.

The next race day, he challenges the Widow Maker once again. She nods in acceptance because now he is the only one to give her a good run. He is the reason that she still has the thrill of racing. What all did not know is that she was ready to quit because the thrill was gone. All the other racers had given up. She was bored. After she wins this one, she has determined that she will just fade out and become a legend.

On the line, they get the signal. He has decided that he wants to play so he does his usual, side by side. The faster he goes, the more she lays on the throttle. He lets her pull ahead but when they come off the third turn, he engages the new intercooler and blows her away. He finally beats her in a fashion that there is no question on who won.

He can tell that she is not mad but excited. It seems like this is exactly what she was looking for. Someone that could meet her expectations. Not someone she would have to settle for but someone that would take any measure to compete with her. Someone that would treat her as an equal. Not just a trophy to sit on the shelf and get dusted off once in a while.

There is stunned silence when he takes off his helmet revealing that he is the prince. He takes to the knee and asks her to marry him and become his queen. She takes off her helmet. It is Josaline. They marry, his father steps down and he becomes king Josaline becomes queen.

The marriage and right after that, on the same day, was the coronation. Her father was bursting at the seams but her two sisters, there with their now husbands, look really pissed but you do not show that to the king and queen.

After the coronation banquet, the sisters had to part and go to their husbands villages. It was rumored that they both ran off and were spotted in another kingdom trying to get divorces.

After all the celebrations are done. Both retire to the country estate to celebrate the marriage. As a wedding gift to her, he secretly had a regulation track built with two fully equipped garages. One had a pod called the Widow Maker and the other had a pod with Queen Maker painted on the side.

They have been known to take most of their vacations there. Lately they have been staying close to the palace. After all, she is carrying the future heir. She hopes that somewhere out there is another Widow Maker.