His Lover from Long Ago: A Time Travel Romance by Caro Carson

Author:Caro Carson [Carson, Caro]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-26T16:00:00+00:00

“Is she awake yet, sir?”

Does she look awake? Griffin wanted to snarl at Terrence, but he kept his anger leashed. He would not turn on a boy who’d recently lost his brother just as Kayna had lost her...Guinevere. And Arthur. And Merlin.

It was not possible that she grieved for the legendary characters of Camelot. Still, her cry at the sight of the old castle had been the cry of a person who’d lost her entire family in one stroke. Every man on the ship had recognized her wail as one of loss. Their hostility had turned to pity at her keening.

Poor mite. Lost her family at sea, she did. We came upon her just after their ship sank, hit by that lightning, most like. The men who’d feared a mermaid, then lusted after a maiden, then drawn pistols on a woman who’d shot their captain, now wanted to adopt the poor orphan they’d netted out of the ocean.

They’d doffed their hats as he’d carried Kayna into the cabin and laid her once more on his bed. Shutting himself in with her, he’d unfastened the brooch and pulled the blue tunic down her body, much more gently than she’d kicked it off herself that first night. She slept now in her white shift, looking as serene as an angel among the sensual furs.

Terrence set a goblet on the desk. “The cook warmed some wine for her. He says it’s good for the blood when you’re in distress.”

Griffin grunted an acknowledgment. The crew were still sympathetic, then. Griffin hoped this current attitude stuck for a while.

“And the cook sent a mug of wine up for you, too, sir.”

Griffin shot him a dark look. “You drink it. Your distress is far more recent than mine.”

But there had been a time when Griffin’s loss had been new. There’d been such a time for everyone on the ship. Men didn’t become pirates after a cozy life of familial prosperity; they risked their lives only when they had nothing left to lose. All of them had, at some point, lost everything dear to them. When Kayna had cried in grief, they’d remembered their own pain.

So had Griffin. Kayna’s grief made his fresh once more. Raw.

Griffin’s loss had come by letter. He’d been a sailing master’s mate in the British navy, not yet disgusted by the fact that he was doing his master’s job while the master drank his way across the Atlantic. He’d still had hope, because a man could still make his fortune in the navy, although it wasn’t as easy as it had been during the last war. With money, he could marry into the right family. He could even be knighted, and his whole family would prosper when he became Sir Dennehay.

But after a month docked in Boston, a letter had caught up with his ship. All the Dennehays were dead, felled within ten days of each other by a putrid fever. Griffin was the last of his family. He’d been the last for two months, only he hadn’t known it before receiving the letter.

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