Pirate's Pleasure by Mariah Stone

Author:Mariah Stone [Stone, Mariah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stone Publishing

Chapter 8

Cole

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Mine. Mine. She’s mine. My heart beats against Lisa’s back.

I hold her, still shaking and breathing heavily. She’s silky and warm, and we breathe together like one being, the movements of the ship underneath us echoing the rhythm.

I allow myself a moment or two more to absorb the delicacy of her body against mine and flow in the waves of softness. Then I detach myself, untie the rope around Lisa’s wrists, and begin to dress.

The experience with her was the most intense I have ever gone through. My time with Duchess Chestwitch does not even compare to the exquisite pleasure I felt with Lisa.

The fresh sea breeze touches my skin, and a cold shiver runs through my body. What I felt with Lisa was so full of light. She took me high, so high I could see the stars and the moon. I worshiped her, as though she was healing water and I was a deathly sick man.

And what I tasted was life.

And I want more.

But there will be no more. She is about to leave me forever.

And I do not want her to stay—why would I? She makes me crave dangerous things. To forget about other women, to want no one but her in my arms for the rest of eternity.

Is what I feel towards her something my father felt towards my mother? I remember the last time I saw him. I was just a boy, getting ready for my first big voyage. His face was too old for his thirty-five years: weathered, wrinkled, tanned like leather. I remember his hunched back, the gray, watery eyes. He always smelled like fish, even after the monthly bathing when my mother scrubbed him clean with lye soap.

“You were born to the wrong family, son,” he had said while we were out fishing on his boat—the most precious thing he owned. “Had I never had you, had I never married your mother, I would be free. But you will end up like me.” He looked at me and my three older brothers, his face bitter. “You all will. You will all find a girl you will be stupid enough to fall in love with, marry her, and then every year there will be one more mouth to feed. Mark my words.”

That was the day I knew I would do everything not to end up like my father. No mouths to feed. No woman to love. No one to tie me down.

These thoughts, these emotions make a cold sweat break through my skin. I haven’t loved anyone since Duchess Chestwitch. I was ready to forget my father’s prediction. When she got rid of me like of an old undergarment, it almost destroyed me. Although later I realized it meant that I was still free. What I feel now, for Lisa, is so much stronger.

It could make me forget my wish to stay free.

It could ruin my soul completely.

I need to keep my distance from her. She will not stay for me.

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