Marrying the Captain by Carla Kelly

Author:Carla Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2009-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

Oliver knew he wouldn’t sleep, so he lay in bed with his hands behind his head, counting all the ways and reasons he loved Eleanor Massie. I must survive this war, he told himself. I want her for my wife and children of her body.

At three o’clock, he dressed again and repacked his duffel. He looked around the room, with its shabby, comfortable furniture, and view of the ocean, dark now, but out there, always out there: a friend sometimes, an enemy other times.

He put on his cloak and slung his duffel over his shoulder. Mr. Proudy shook his head whenever he hoisted his own duffel, but Oliver knew he never stood on much ceremony. Besides, he had seen the great Lord Cochrane himself carry his own duffel.

He went down the stairs, and stopped.

Nana had almost kept her word. Wrapped in her robe, a pillow under her head, she had curled up on the settee in the front hallway. He looked closely at her in the light of the lantern, which still gave off its soft glow. She must have worn herself out with crying, from the tear streaks on her face.

“Bless and keep you, my love,” he whispered. “God knows if we shall see each other again.”

Quietly, he took his cloak from his shoulders and laid it on her. She stirred, but did not waken. He had another cloak aboard the Tireless.

He had not ordered a hackney on purpose. He had a long walk, but Mr. Proudy would have the Tireless trimmed and anchored in the Cattewater. The jolly boat would be waiting quayside. His men would row him out to their frigate; the bosun would pipe him aboard, and life would go on.

Everything had changed except the duty ahead.

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