The Abandon Trilogy by Meg Cabot

Author:Meg Cabot [Cabot, Meg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction - YA, Paranormal, Kids, Teen, Love and Romance, Romance
ISBN: 9781447267775
Google: h0BGAgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2013-12-05T05:00:00+00:00

My hairband fell to the sidewalk. I knew I would never find it again. Too many people were passing by, drinking from the red cups that they were buying from a Captain Rob’s Rum stand nearby.

Of course I didn’t think I’d heard him correctly. Why would he have told me something so important now, so casually, in the middle of a street fair?

Before I could stop myself, I blurted out the first thing I thought.

‘Just one?’

The look he gave me was shattering.

Given everything I knew about him, though, I’d expected him to have killed a man.

It was the fact that his having taken a single life had resulted in his banishment to the Underworld for all eternity that I found so astonishing.

‘I had no idea,’ he said with a dry smile, ‘that you were so bloodthirsty, Pierce. Should we try to find you one of those pirate costumes?’

‘It’s . . . it’s not that one man isn’t enough,’ I stammered. I could hardly hear myself think with all the music. The Latin rhythms seemed to pulsate along with my heartbeat, which had quickened at the realization of my callous blunder. ‘It’s just that I’ve had to stop you from killing quite a few men before, in my presence. So I’m surprised—’

He saw that I was being jostled by the crowd in the street, and, taking my hand, drew me towards the sidewalk until we stood beneath the low-hanging branches of a gumbo-limbo tree, away from the masses and the lights, where it was a bit darker and quieter. Hope had followed us, of course, and she sat in the gutter, contentedly pecking at an abandoned grilled corn on the cob.

‘The man I killed was a ship captain,’ John said. His voice had lost its hard edge, but his expression was remote, as if he were telling someone else’s story. ‘He was captain of the Liberty. I was his first mate.’

This was a little bit of a shock, but I said nothing, keeping my gaze on an orange tabby cat that had slunk out from behind the fence in front of which we were standing. The cat’s eyes glowed as it eyed Hope . . . then it caught my warning gaze, and slunk off quickly.

‘We were sailing from Havana to Isla Huesos,’ John went on. ‘From there we were to head back to England. Not far from Isla Huesos I discovered something . . . unsatisfactory with the course the captain had charted. I tried to discuss it with him privately, but he wouldn’t listen. Word about his plan got out, and some of the crew agreed with me. There was a mutiny. I’m sure you know what a mutiny is.’

‘Yes,’ I said. I’d seen a movie about a mutiny once. The crew of a ship had ganged up on the captain and taken command away from him, because they hadn’t liked the harsh and unfair way he was running things.

‘Then you probably know that a mutiny is considered a serious offence,’ John said.

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