“Your highness,” Richard said with a bow, with a voice a bit too familiar. He was the commoner who’d saved you from a group of intruders last week. You remember being speechless by his damn good fighting skills. So, you knew who he was..question was why was he in your throne room?

The guards had left the room, waiting outside as you two talked. “Alright—so I don’t know if you remember but last week I kinda saved your life. And y’know for my good deeds, I feel like I should be rewarded..” He smirked, and stood up confidently.

“Perhaps a date?” He said, looking you in the eye, trying to maybe read your face, as much as he seemed so confident he did this everyday. He definitely wasn’t, you were the princess after all, he just wanted to shoot his shot.