Across A Moonlit Sea by Marsha Canham

Author:Marsha Canham [Canham, Marsha]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Marsha canham
Published: 2011-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

“Cadiz?” Jonas queried. “Why the devil—?”

“The King is showing off his fleet preparations,” Beau said in awe. “He is showing off his armada.”

Dante grinned again. “I told you, you were going to have stop doing that: being so clever.”

“But …” She looked down at the paintings. “How can you be certain these are accurate depictions? How can you be certain it isn’t just braggadocio and wishful thinking?”

Dante gazed at her a moment, then ran the tip of his finger along the soft auburn wisps of hair that curled against her neck.

I know because of these. They’re standing on end. And because of these—” He reached into the crate again and withdrew a thin sheaf of papers. They had been heavily waxed and sealed with the imprint of the King’s ambassador in Veracruz. With fresh wine shimmering in his cup, he pulled a chair under the lamplight and began skimming the pages, translating from the Spanish as he read small excerpts that might interest his audience.

“‘Like hawks they came out of nowhere, struck, and flew away again in the night, with Satan himself blowing in their wings. We are told the attack was led by the French dog,’” He paused in his reading and scowled. “Dog? When was I demoted from a wolf to a dog? At any rate, ‘… the attack was led by the French dog De Tourville, with some measurable success, which, I regret to inform Your Most Royal Highness, bears a loss to the treasury of some five hundred thousand ducats.’” Dante stopped again. “The thieving rogue. It was no more than four, by God, although he has put the reward for my head up to fifteen thousand ducats. Five thousand more and I’ll be worth as much as your hero, Sir Francis Drake.”

“Fifteen thousand is tempting enough,” she said wryly. “Believe me.”

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