Eye of the Storm by Lee Rowan

Author:Lee Rowan [Rowan, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Gay, Erotica, Romance
ISBN: 9781602021785
Google: 9aVBiH-B9EgC
Amazon: 0979777356
Publisher: Linden Bay Romance
Published: 2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The Frenchmen had not moved. And Archer knew they would not move until they had determined why that small English vessel kept returning to linger near the mouth of the bay.

The other ship’s presence was worrisome, but in a way it was reassuring. He had finally decided that if Will had been captured, the French captain would certainly have left a guard at the chateau and sailed back to Le Havre with his prisoner, to turn him over to the authorities. No, unless Will had gone somewhere else altogether, he was surely at the chateau.

Why had the place not been searched? Did Beauchene have some acquaintance with importance in Bonaparte’s new empire that would make a mere naval captain reluctant to disturb him? If so, how was it that the man had not signaled the ship himself, and surrendered his guest?

Then again, if Beauchene accepted Will’s story, he might feel that while an Englishman was an unusual sort of guest this far off the beaten path, his presence was not a threat. In fact, this far removed from contact with the larger world and tied to his home by poor health, the poor old sod might be so desperate for any company at all that Will would have to steal the silver and seduce the housemaid for Beauchene to throw him out.

And Will, for his part, would be trapped almost literally between the devil and the deep blue sea. Whether or not Dr. Colbert showed up, Will could not venture out of the chateau until the French frigate had given up waiting and gone on its way.

There was no chance the Frenchman would give up so long as the Mermaid kept hovering about. What Archer needed most was a diversion to bring that Frenchman out and send him elsewhere. If they were at war, that could be easily managed by sending a few men ashore with some gunpowder a little way up the coast. But the Mermaid’s boat was too small to get men in and out again before the frigate would be upon them, and in any case this was not the place to fire the first shot of new hostilities.

There was one other thing he might try. He could go ashore at the dark of the moon, with a handful of men, and see if he could bring Will out under cover of night. That tactic stood a chance of success. The only problem with it was that if it worked at all, it would work once, and only once, and if he went in to fetch Will before the doctor arrived, they would not get another chance.

He had to draw that frigate out of the harbor. What I really need most is another ship.

What I really need is Will.

He stood at the rail for a long time, gazing out at the roof-line of the chateau, a ghostly silhouette in the light of moon and stars. He should have taken a chance, pushed past Will’s natural reticence, climbed out of his own hammock and into his lover’s.

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