Pot of Gold and Emerald Isle by Megan Hart

Author:Megan Hart [Hart, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781940078120
Publisher: Chaos Publishing

Chapter 14

Winston was no match for him at fighting. The man might have had tutors and training, but Robin had learned to defend himself against some of the most bloodthirsty, cutthroat blackguards on the sea. Now he twisted his body away from Dandrew's casual threat and lifted his own weapon.

Nora slipped to the side, but Robin had no time to see if she was all right. Dandrew attacked. He moved like a man unused to being fought against. He slashed out, and Robin blocked the blow with his machete. Dandrew countered with another swift swing.

Robin ducked, and Dandrew's sword whistled over his head.

"You'll have to try harder than that to kill me."

"Gladly," Dandrew snarled and leaped forward.

Robin pivoted on his heel and blocked another swing. He wished for a real sword instead of the blocky machete. He had no real range, no grace, and could only block and hack. Dandrew, with his dueling rapier, had an advantage.

"Just turn around and go home," he advised Dandrew. "There's naught for you here."

"And leave you with the gold and my wife?" Dandrew gave a laugh worthy of the scurviest pirate.

Robin slashed and caught a chunk of brush near Dandrew's back. "She's not your wife!"

"She's as good as mine." Dandrew whipped his blade close enough to slash the thigh of Robin's trousers, though the skin beneath remained unscratched. "Damn it!"

"I don't think the lass wants to marry you any longer, Dandrew."

Robin danced out of Dandrew's reach and paused. Dandrew threw him a contemptuous look. He kept his sword at the ready. "Her father as good as sold her to me. I'll be the one to decide if we marry or not."

"Just walk away," Robin repeated. He gave Nora a quick glance. Her face looked strained, but her eyes snapped angrily at Dandrew's back. "Walk away with your dignity intact, mate."

Dandrew laughed. "My dignity? As if you could ever take it from me? A filthy, worthless pirate? You stole my ship because you had none of your own, and I see you stole my bride for the same reason. If there's a man here who needs to learn some dignity, it's not me, Steele."

Robin itched to simply run the man through and let his guts spill out of his belly like festival ribbons--but he held back. Nora knew him as a pirate. She didn't need to see him as a ruthless murderer.

"You got your ship back, mate," he said quietly. "And the woman is no more mine to command than she is yours. She'll make the choice of whom she wants to be with. Just go before this gets ugly."

"It's already ugly." Dandrew swiped his blade through the air again. "And I believe there's something here I want to take with me when I go."

"You'll not take the gold. 'Tis mine. I found it. I worked for it."

Again, Dandrew scoffed. "I doubt you've ever worked for anything in your entire life, you ingrate."

Dandrew lunged, and Robin countered. Together, they made a deadly dance. There'd be no mercy now.

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