My Lady Pirate by Danelle Harmon

Author:Danelle Harmon [Harmon, Danelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780380772285
Google: ad_BLTRpcL0C
Amazon: B009NLFKU2
Goodreads: 2098345
Publisher: Avon
Published: 1994-01-02T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

El Perro Negro, locked in a small, choking hold deep in the bowels of HMS Triton with the six surviving members of his bloodthirsty gang, woke at about the same time the Pirate Queen, several decks above him, did.

He might have slept forever and died in his own blood, had Pig-Eye’s ministrations not

penetrated his unconscious haze.

“Capitan!” There, the voice again, drifting into his swimming senses, and a slow awareness of pressure ringing his arm as someone drew a bandage tight. Ah, yes, he remembered, now. The merchantman . . . the schooner . . . a savage fight between pistols and cutlasses . . . and the African, charging out of the smoke and cutting him down as he’d emptied his pistol into her captain. At least he’d had the satisfaction of seeing the disbelief on the Pirate Queen’s face, extinguished by that one savage blast, before his own world had gone dark . . .

He hoped she rotted in hell, the whoring bitch. Cursing, he clawed himself up through sheets of pain and opened his eyes.

“Ah, Capitan, you are awake! Thank God!”

It was Pig-Eye, his face barely discernible in the thick gloom. “Idiota!” el Perro Negro snarled, for with consciousness came a deep, searing agony in his left arm that spread fire all the way up and into his shoulder. “Why didn’t you just let me be, you stupid shit?” But even as he sat up, tugging at the too-tight bandage the faithful wretch had made from strips of his own shirt, he realized he was in a grave situation and his survival instincts, honed by years of running from the law, took over. Shoving Pig-Eye aside, he pulled himself to his feet, stumbled over a sprawled, groaning body, kicked it in fury, and groped desperately at the seams of a shut and locked door.

“It is no use, Capitan,” Pig-Eye said, dejectedly. “We have already tried to escape. El almirante is no fool. Not only is the door bolted shut, but he has placed a marine guard outside to make sure we . . . behave. There is no way out.”

“What do you mean, there’s no way out? What the hell are you talking about?”

“We’re prisoners, Capitan, ” he said, nervously. “After you shot the Pirate Queen, her crew snatched her up, fled back to the schooner, and loosed a broadside into us that killed most of our crew. We may be fine fighters, but we are only flesh and blood—no match for a cannon shot.

Next thing we knew, they’d overpowered those of us who were left and dragged us off to Nelson

—”

“Nelson?!” El Perro Negro snared Pig-Eye’s filthy collar and yanked him savagely forward, nearly snapping the man’s neck. “We’re on Nelson’s ship? You damned fools, why didn’t you tell me?”

Pig-Eye shrank back, his eyes white in the darkness, the sweaty stench of his terror ripe and hot against a background of other, fouler smells—bilge water, damp wood, and closer, the stink of vomit and blood. “I did not say we are aboard Nelson’s ship, Capitan, ” he gasped, trembling.

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