Pirate Lord Omnibus Books 1-3 by Sloss Marcus

Author:Sloss, Marcus
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Royal Guard Publishing LLC
Published: 2021-08-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Pirate Hideout: The Ridge / Monster Isle - Day 56

The ‘night’ aboard the Ravensworn passed without incident. No other pirate lord’s lackeys tried to make a scene. No one attempted to force us to leave. Nothing.

Either the other pirate lords had been persuaded against acting by Jean’s intervention, or they were trying to remain neutral about the whole situation.

An interesting stance for a pirate to take, I thought.

Of course, I’d made the most of the night with both Freya and Dew, despite Kaede taking on the dual role of guarding our door, but also being our peeping tom. After we woke the following morning, Lira warned us to be well prepared, so we made sure to fully equip ourselves before bidding our farewells to Kiel and making our way onto the upper deck.

I didn’t expect the welcome we got when we stepped out of the stairway onto the deck of the ship.

“There ya are! I thought ya’d be at it all day!” Jean strode forward and laid a hand on my shoulder. “My friends have come down to welcome ya into their little home away from home!”

Despite the fact she was nearly the same height as me, it seemed like Jean was trying to appear taller. Probably had something to do with the audience behind her.

Three other pirates stood at the bow of the ship, each one showing a completely different set of emotions. The trio couldn’t have been more different from each other, but their openly displayed pirate tattoos proved their allegiance, and their confidence.

“Daemon,” the first pirate, a scraggly high elf, snarled as he stepped forward. His glare was full of hatred, bitterness, bile, and any other negative emotion you might think appropriate for your worst enemy.

Probably that Kray idiot’s boss—the one who’d tried to get us thrown out the day before.

“Nice to meet you, Wes. The name’s Wraith.” The second pirate, a pure wood elf dressed in a well-fitted set of leather armor, didn’t seem to care one way or the other about welcoming us to the hideout, though I could tell the man was amused by his colleague's open enmity toward us.

Inter-faction rivalry aside, I didn’t feel any danger from the elf.

But that type made for the deadliest of enemies if you didn’t keep them in your line of sight. His name hinted at duplicity, too, all by itself—although that could just be further misdirection.

“Smith.” The third and final pirate lord spoke slowly. His voice was raspy and crackled with age. Even if I wasn’t comparing him to his relatively young comrades, Smith appeared to be quite an elderly high elf.

I thought he wouldn’t have been at all out of place in a council meeting back in Keria. Unlike the others’ tight-fitting leathers and silks, he wore a light and comfortable shirt and robe that was ill-suited for the rigors of pirating but perfectly designed for an official who worked behind a desk, in an office.

Still, the rapier belted at his waist proved the old

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