The Pirate's Daughter by Marie Hall

Author:Marie Hall [Hall, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blushing Books Publications
Published: 2017-11-05T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Mia rolled to face the wall and pulled the pillow over her head. It was getting harder and harder to ignore Hong Chin’s constant berating of her. For three days he’d been after her to get up and stop making the captain unhappy. Now he wanted to blame the entire crew’s unhappiness on her.

It wasn’t her fault the weather turned bad and everyone was trapped below deck as the rains and winds continued to hold the ship in place east of Tolfar and the port city there. No one wanted off the ship as much as Mia. Devin’s displeasure regarding her ending Gillmore made its presence known every minute. She wore bruises from the top of her ass to the place where it curved under. Strangely there wasn’t a single mark on her legs. That strap burned like fire, but an hour after he’d finished ranking her stern, her legs ached, but nowhere near the throbbing way her ass did.

She’d not been able to sleep that night either. As exhausted as she’d felt, she lay there waiting to feel a hatred for her husband. With every beat of her heart pain pulsed through and she waited for rage to wash up. But try as she might, nothing more than guilt crashed on shore.

Maybe if he’d said he hated her for what she was she’d be able to hate him back. Only he told her he didn’t even think she was a pirate. In truth, she wasn’t, neither were Papa or the crew. Although she had known for a long time Papa did things, much like she did with the slaver, in an attempt to find the one behind the attack on her childhood home of Hermosa Alma—the attack that killed her mother and infant brother when she was eight.

Mia learned her tactics from him. And she’d employed them as she, too, tried to find the people behind such a cowardly act. He didn’t want her involved, but she needed to do something. That very morning she’d yelled terrible things at her mama. She had accused her of loving the baby boy more. She ran from the house with her mama calling after her, saying she’d send Papa for her if she didn’t come home before dark. But Mia thought then Papa loved the boy more too. He was after all his real child. She’d been sure as she listened to the cannon fire roar over the port that Papa would save them. Papa would save them and not come looking for Mia. She expected he’d take Mama and Charlie and the three of them would sail away. Mia stayed in the groves for two days after the ships fled the harbor. On the second day, Grim found her and carried her home to Papa who was weeping until he saw her. She remembered then how tightly he’d held her. Saying that it was a miracle she was with him. That he’d thought he’d lost her. Mia asked where Charlie and Mama were.

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