Seduced by the Pirate by Maggi Andersen

Author:Maggi Andersen [Andersen, Maggi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Medieval, Romance
Publisher: DragonMedia Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2019-06-25T04:00:00+00:00

Lydia rushed to the window. As the Golden Orion swung about, the ship sailing toward them came into view. A bright flash came from its guns. Cannon shot hit the water with a whoosh, and Jack’s ship shuddered. The ship swung again and blocked her view.

She kicked off her mules and gripped the pistol. She had to stay on her feet, alert.

Malik shrieked and hid his face against her skirts.

“We’ll be all right.” She hugged his rangy body to her. Should she have taken him into the hold? Wrestling with guilt and uncertainty, she gnawed at her bottom lip as panic engulfed her.

Surely, to be of help, she would treat the wounded. Jack’s men must not see him favor her. Truth was, she couldn’t stand the thought of waiting in that smelly, dark, horrid place with the rest of the rats, waiting to find out if she would be sent to the bottom of the sea.

She framed Malik’s face in her hands, making sure he understood her. “Captain will save us,” she said firmly.

Malik’s eyes were owlish with fear. Oskar set up a dreadful row. He danced on his perch and flapped his brightly feathered wings. “Shiver me timbers! Shiver me timbers!”

With a roar, the Golden Orion’s guns fired. Through the wisps of smoke, she watched cannon shot hit the other ship broadside, holing it near the waterline. With wild cries, the men scattered. She was forced to turn away when some fell into the sea. A flare of flame sent smoke drifting as the Spanish ship retaliated. She was almost knocked off her feet when the boards beneath her shuddered. Hit, the Golden Orion lurched. She could only hope it wasn’t a fatal blow.

After the ships came together in an awful groaning of timbers and were locked in place, she heard Jack’s men swarm aboard the Santa Maria with blood-curdling cries.

Lydia fought to breathe as the image of the leaping, twisting bodies flooding into her mind made her feel sick. Was Jack amongst them? Was he still alive? She couldn’t bear to think otherwise. It was maddening that her view was blocked so often by the movement of the ships, but in a way she was relieved not to be able witness the terrible carnage.

The sound of it sent a chill through her, the pistol shots, the clash of cutlasses, the screams, and moans of the injured filled the air. More bodies fell into the sea. She wanted to hide in the bed with the blankets pulled over her head, her fingers in her ears, but instead, she straightened her spine. With no surgeon aboard, if they won this battle, she would be sorely needed. She examined her medicines, organizing them, separating those which would be of some help.

She pushed aside Jack’s logbooks on the desk and found some scissors, cutting up her old gown for bandages. It wasn’t fit to wear again. The work helped to calm her as she sliced through the cloth. “We must roll these up for bandages, Malik, come help me.

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