Desire in the Sun by Karen Robards - Desire in the Sun

Author:Karen Robards - Desire in the Sun [Robards, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Mystery
ISBN: 0380755548
Google: sGdHoblMxJcC
Amazon: B0099QYMPU
Goodreads: 629614
Publisher: Avon
Published: 1987-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

XXXI

Rough hands grabbing her beneath her armpits and dragging her out of the warm cocoon in which she slept woke Lilah. She had a single shocked instant to register that it was no longer night but dawn. Pink and purple pinwheels spiraled out from the pale yellow sun just peeking over the eastern horizon. The tide lapped far up the beach, dangerously close to where she had been lying, narrowing the strip of sand to a width of less than a dozen yards.

Then in the same instant she realized that she had been sleeping in Joss’s arms on the beach, and she was now being dragged away from him, her bare skin scraping over the gritty sand. A grinning, dirty-looking man in a scarlet shirt and black breeches whom she immediately took for one of the pirates stood with his bare foot on Joss’s shoulder, aiming a pistol point-blank at his face.

Joss, too, seemed stunned by what was happening. As Lilah looked on in horror, Joss’s head rose an inch or two from the sand, swiveled in her direction. The pirate holding the pistol said something, cocked the pistol, and Joss’s eyes swung back to the pistol and the man who held it. Joss froze, every muscle in his body seeming to tense. The pirate’s grin broadened. His finger seemed to tighten on the trigger. …

Lilah then understood that the hands holding her belonged to another pirate, one with a lush red beard and a missing front tooth, who was leering at her nakedness as he dragged her farther along the beach. Lilah had no doubt that in a matter of seconds the pistol in the hand of the first pirate would explode, Joss would be killed, and she would be brutally raped by one and possibly both men.

The reality of what was happening sank in at last and she screamed.

The sound was as loud and shrill as a steam whistle. The man dragging her jumped and cursed, kicking her in the back with his bare foot. Lilah barely felt the blow as she struggled to escape his hold. Her scream had apparently distracted for a vital instant the pirate bent on murdering Joss. Even as she fought to break free of her captor, she was aware of Joss’s hand closing over the hand holding the gun, of the pirate who had threatened him twisting through the air. … Suddenly there was an explosion, and then she was free. The red-bearded man abandoned the fight and took to his heels as Joss came running toward them. The other pirate lay motionless in the sand. Lilah sank to her knees, shaking. After a single glance at her that seemed to register in a millisecond that she was unharmed, Joss chased the red-bearded man along the beach and into the forest. And it was then that Lilah thought that even if Joss caught and killed the other man, the pirates would certainly miss two of their number. They would come looking for their crew-mates.

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