Dawn and the Pirate Assassin by April Marcom

Author:April Marcom
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: revenge, pirates, pirate treasure, pirate romance, historical pirate romance, female pirate, assassin romance, romance clean, pirate revenge

Chapter Six

Sea of Death

Growling and howling suddenly filled the air, waking Troy with a start. He stared outside his bedroom door and began scooting back, falling off his bed when he saw the skin-dripping corpse in the hallway. The hideous thing gnashed its teeth and howled eerily as it knelt over the door that led to Dawn.

They'd only been at sea for two days since the morning of strawberry jam. They couldn't have reached the Sea of Death already.

But the silver edges of haunting figures were moving from all over the room toward him. Teeth were barred. Backs and shoulders hunched over as they made to grab him. Troy felt himself shaking.

The corpse-man in the hall threw Dawn's door open a moment before another monster came running and sliced through him with a sword, sending his body below.

“It isn't real,” Troy shouted. He couldn't hear his own voice over the moaning of the shadowy figures surrounding him.

The dead thing did, though. It held its sword over one shoulder as it advanced on Troy, so Troy took his cutlass from a bedside table and hurled it across the room into the other man's chest. As the ugly figure curled up on the floor, becoming the thing he’d only appeared to be, a corpse fell into the hole in the hallway where the door had been left open.

“Dawn,” Troy murmured, struggling to ignore the illusions clawing at his face. His skin stung as if it was real. It didn't matter. He had to get to Dawn.

He took the sword left on the floor by the crumbling man and ran into the hall, where the living dead roared and shrieked, running to and from nearly every room.

He thought briefly of his captain’s safety, but remembered the trap door hidden underneath Ravenheart’s bed. The old man would be able to escape any danger easily.

Troy jumped into the hole and landed with no injury beside a lifeless body just in time to see a knife hurled from the corpse in pants at the one behind the bars in a baby blue dress. The woman tried to move out of the way, but the weapon sunk into her rotting hand. Her screaming echoed through the room as she pried the blade from the palm of her hand and threw it into her attacker's forehead.

“Are you all right?” Troy asked, moving toward her. He still couldn't hear his voice.

Dawn dove for the crate against her door and pulled her pistol out from under it. She stood and aimed it at Troy.

“It's me,” he said, knowing it was useless. He knelt and held his hands up.

The gun went off. Troy collapsed, sure he'd been hit. Something kicked him so he looked back to see the man she had shot. Unrecognizable in the widespread delirium, the man lay dead with a bullet in his head and a gun beside his hand.

Something began pulling on Troy’s arm. He realized Dawn was trying to get him to stand. As he rose, her horrifying, bald head drew closer and he fought an inner war not to run away.

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