A Kiss in the Wind by Jennifer Bray-Weber

Author:Jennifer Bray-Weber [Bray-Weber, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Historical, Romance
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2012-05-19T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“Don’t raise your voice to me.” Blade pulled her inside the companionway away from the working crew. “I doubt Carrion let your tongue wag under his command. I won’t have you doing it here.”

“Carrion.” Marisol had been unaware of her father’s brethren name. Disgusted by the sound of it, she spat, landing her mark directly on Blade’s boot. Blade lifted his eyebrows, not at all pleased with her aim. “To hell with Carrion,” she said, for good measure.

She reached her limit. The edges of her control began to crumble away. She’d dug herself in too deep this time. All she wanted was to have her brothers together again. A family sailing the ocean blue in search of adventure and riches. Fanciful? Perhaps. But something to dream of at night after she lay her head down.

As usual, she tangled things up, plunged herself into another bungle. This time it became clear Alain no longer planned to bail her out. She’d been problematic, at best. If not for her, Alain would not have gone after the Gloria. The Sablewing would not have been damaged. And she would not have been traded off to a pirate captain she knew damn well and good she couldn’t trust herself around.

It hurt. Deep inside, she hoped that Alain loved her more, at least more than his actions showed. Hadn’t she proved to him her loyalty? Hadn’t she worked on an even keel with the rest of the crew, expecting nothing but fair treatment in return? Hadn’t her escapades helped pad his strongbox with riches? What more could she have done?

The truth was hard to swallow. To expect to earn his love had been foolish. He showed so little of it with her mother and she wasn’t certain he was even capable of the emotion. She assumed that there had to be some fiber of affection within him since he occasionally visited her mama. For what other reason would he go to her if not out of love? His visits made Mama happy. His visits made them all happy.

But this wasn’t about Alain.

She gave Blade a hostile glare. “How dare you demand me of him?”

“I’m a pirate, love. It’s what we do.” He braced a hand on the wall behind her head. “We take what we want.” His smoldering green eyes darkened as he bent his head. He had her pinned with absolute craving. She couldn’t be sure if it was his desire or hers that kept her fixed in place. His lips loitered so close. “Especially if what we want holds some advantage.”

His musky scent mingled with a hint of sulfur from the earlier gun battle, a deadly mixture sure to break her. She inhaled deep and slow, breathing in as much as she could of him. “You want me?”

“Aye.”

The word fell like heavy velvet, warm and thick. Curse it! I’m going down. She lifted her mouth to meet his.

Blade pushed off the wall, away from her. “You may come in handy when I need my rum brought to me.

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