Monstrous as a Croc (Daughters of Neverland Book 4) by Kendra Moreno

Author:Kendra Moreno [Moreno, Kendra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-19T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Six

A week. That’s all that went by since the incident, but it felt like it took far longer than it should have, as if the very air was charged with change. None of the crew gave us any more trouble, and though it was Hook’s doing, it didn’t change my opinion of him. He could have done it from the beginning, could have stopped the savagery in its tracks the first moment Cutthroat opened his mouth. Instead, he caved and nearly killed Pete in the process. The day dawned and crested, and it felt different, like something big was coming. I didn’t know what, but Pete and I stuck close to Wendy. Something told me what was about to happen would change her.

We moved beside her, helping with her tasks before she leaned against the balustrade, exhaustion in her shoulders. Worried, I was just stepping forward to ask if she was okay when Hook appeared. There were dark circles under his eyes, as if he hadn’t been sleeping. Both seemed to feel the same, tired, desperate, agonized. “Are you going to keep ignoring me?”

When Hook leaned against the balustrade beside her, I moved just a little further away, but I could still hear their words, and curiosity has me staying close. Curiosity and that charge in the air.

Wendy didn’t tease Hook like she used to. She glanced up at him, her eyes holding all the emotions that Hook didn’t seem capable of understanding. “I’m not ignoring you. I’m thinking.”

“About ignoring me.”

Sadness filled me with his words. Wendy and Hook could have been another love story, even then, but both were too stubborn to see the emotions, both too blind to the emotion shining so clearly in each other’s eyes. I glanced at Pete and he nodded, seeing it too. Had Hook ruined it all? Was it really that surprising if he did?

“About how I feel,” Wendy sighed.

Hook tensed and I knew it wasn’t going to go well. The pirate Captain had never shown much emotion, and then here was Wendy, prepared to spill her heart out for him, in love though she would never admit it then. On that matter, neither would Hook admit his own love for her.

“How you feel about what?”

My hands stilled in my task, and I couldn’t even pretend I wasn’t listening anymore. The possibilities of this going from bad to worse were strong and we were all along for the journey.

“You. This ship. This world,” Wendy admitted, unafraid. “Something is in the air today. My skin is tingling, and I keep thinking, if this is the day I die, would I be okay with that?” My heart seized. Wendy was going for it. She was going to lay her heart before the Captain. Would he be strong enough to return the favor? “The answer to that is no.”

Hook stayed tense, but he tried to appear calm and collected, always the Pirate Captain, always the idiot. “When you say your feelings for me, do you

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