The Wicked Ways of Alexander Kidd by Quinn Paula

Author:Quinn, Paula [Quinn, Paula]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Medieval, Fiction / Sagas, Fiction, Romance, Sagas, Historical, Scottish, Fiction / Romance / Historical / Scottish, Fiction / Romance / Erotica, Erotica, Fiction / Romance / Historical / Medieval
ISBN: 9781455519460
Publisher: Forever
Published: 2014-10-28T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Alex had been right. The days aboard the ship were getting more difficult. Trina’s growing misery, though, had little to do with boredom or spoiled food. She missed her kin and worried what would happen when they came for her. But it was the captain’s face, the glistening, golden slabs of muscle moving in his bare arms and even his belly when he practiced with her that kept her awake at night. He was crafted to fight, to move, to mesmerize. And mesmerized by him, she was. The skill with which he disarmed or potentially killed her every time they practiced impressed her. The way his arms felt coming around her, making her feel protected rather than captured, stilled her heart. The sound of his husky voice telling her he’d won again boiled her blood.

She wanted him to kiss her. She ached for it in places that made her blush and burn. She wanted to run her hands and her tongue all over his hard planes. Without truly understanding it, she wanted to lie beneath him, touching him, kissing him, while he slipped himself deep into her.

She feared she was growing overly attached to him. It had been difficult not to ever since the day he asked her to stay with him. She’d been happy that Captain Delgado was such a lech that she was able to stay with Alex, but she knew she couldn’t remain with him forever. What would happen when he left her? She tried to think of it as little as possible.

Training with him was torturous and eating with him was no less challenging. He laughed with the crew at her or Kyle’s tales of their kin back home. He watched her eat, mostly bug-free food. He watched her drink and speak with the others. She felt his eyes on her often and sometimes turned to catch him looking. His smile, across the span of his drunken crew, was sober, intimate, and longing for her as well.

But he hadn’t kissed her since Lisbon. Save for their practice time, he barely touched her. It was driving her mad. She wished they could drop anchor at the nearest port and leave the ship, even for a few hours. She needed to be away from wherever Captain Kidd was.

They were three weeks in. She wasn’t sure how much more she could take. To keep her mind and her eyes off him, she kept busy with other activities, one of them being how to climb the ratlines and finally make it to the crow’s nest. At first, Gustaaf didn’t go along with keeping his instruction a secret from the captain, but Trina didn’t let up on him until he agreed.

That’s why she felt so bad for him one day when Alex discovered her on her way down from the mast. She hadn’t seen him on the forecastle deck and nearly slipped through a hole in the ropes when he shouted her name.

Her near fall didn’t help in the argument that ensued between them.

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