The Special Operations Flotilla: The Dorset Boy Book 2 by Christopher C Tubbs

Author:Christopher C Tubbs [Tubbs, Christopher C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: graogonzo
Published: 2019-06-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12: Lost Innocence

“Did you have to kill him?” asked Caroline as they lay together in bed after a vigorous bout of lovemaking. Marty looked at her and wondered at the smoothness of her skin, which he could see quite a lot of as they were laying on top of the covers.

“I was taught that there is only one way to win a fight, and they drummed into me all the places you go for to finish it fast. I can’t fight any other way.”

She looked at him. At times, he looked his almost seventeen years with a sort of innocence in his face, but when she talked about his past or his life in the Navy, she saw the man he was, and part of that man was a killer and a leader. Confident, cool, and able.

He had told her about his early life in Dorset and being found by Captain Turner and his influence on him. He also talked about the other mentors he had had, John Batrick, the Cox, who had taught him to knife fight, Tom Savage, who had taught him so much about sailing, The Master, Mr. Trubshaw, who had taught him to Navigate, Mr. Evans, the Purser, who taught him to negotiate, and now Admiral Hood, Armand, and the Count de Marchets.

“Dead enemies don’t follow you around,” he grinned at her, “and I hate looking over my shoulder all the time.”

She was nineteen years old, a widow and, although she was only three years older, Marty was aware she was much more experienced than him in life and, particularly, in sex.

But, she thought wickedly, he was a fast learner.

He had received a note from her the day after the duel, inviting him to visit at her London house and the Count had encouraged him to do so. Evelyn had sniffed and put her nose in the air and refused to talk to him about her. He had taken her up on the invite and was now living there while he was in London.

Caroline had inherited a large fortune from her husband and had houses in London and Bath, an estate in Cheshire that covered three thousand acres or more and had enough tenants to populate a descent sized village. She was the youngest daughter of a merchant family and had been married to the much older Lord Candor for her family to gain some social advancement. He was the last of his line, and she had inherited his entire estate.

The rumour that the old boy had expired while ‘in the saddle’ were false as he had actually died of food poisoning after gorging himself on badly cooked Lampreys.

This made Lady Caroline the most eligible widow in Britain. However, she resented being treated like some kind of broodmare in waiting and she despised the fortune-seeking gadflies who constantly pursued her.

Marty on the other hand just accepted her as she was, made no demands, was good in bed (and getting better), was independently wealthy (to her surprise), and didn’t have any interest in her fortune.

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