Velvet Lightning by Kay Hooper

Author:Kay Hooper [Hooper, Kay]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Fiction, Historical, Regency
ISBN: 9780553219807
Google: rh4ZPQAACAAJ
Amazon: 0553219804
Publisher: Loveswept
Published: 1988-04-15T14:46:03.763000+00:00

Tyrone went to his ship. He tied his horse at the harbor and rowed himself out to The Raven in the longboat. Lyle and the other men on board were unsurprised by his arrival, since he often checked the ship while in harbor. They greeted him casually, waited to see if he had any orders. He hadn’t.

He went to his cabin, shut himself inside. There was a logbook on his small desk, and he made a brief entry. Today's date. The Raven was still tied at anchor in Port Elizabeth. He stared at the entry for a long moment, then closed the log and sat back in his chair.

The captain’s cabin was large for a ship of The Raven's size, almost luxurious. It was actually two rooms, this study area and a second room partitioned from the first and holding a full-sized bed. In the study were the desk and a couple of chairs, a number of books, maps, charts; in the bedroom were more books as well as the satin draperies and ornate furnishings that had amused him when he had had them installed years before.

Like a Turk's harem, he had thought ruefully. More than one woman had been impressed by the luxury, and more than woman had happily shared the draped and ornate bed.

Tyrone sat at his desk and stared blindly across the room. She didn’t hate him. She didn’t, really, want to end it between them because she still felt something for him. He knew that.

It had been slow in coming to him, that knowledge. He had stepped into the cottage, had seen that small bundle on the floor, and it was a knife in his heart. It had taken all his will to face her there in the bedroom doorway, all his control to hold in his pain and bitterness.

And, in the end, he hadn’t done a very good job of it. He had lashed out at her, and knew that forever he would regret the things he had said. Those dim, long-ago feelings of inferiority—laid to rest, he had thought, fifteen years before—had gripped him like vicious furies, blinding him to what had lain beneath her iron calm.

God, he hadn’t meant to hurt her! But he had. Every word he had said had cut her ruthlessly. He had all but called her a heartless whore, and that was something no woman should ever have to hear from a man.

She had been in so much pain and so afraid, beneath the calm, so terribly afraid. He hadn’t seen that, ruthless bastard that he was. Until he had cut at her, had hurt her even more. Then he had seen it, in her eyes, had heard it in the strange wrenching sound that had softly escaped her lips.

“Captain?”

Tyrone focused on the door of his cabin, realizing that he hadn’t heard the knock. “Yes, Lyle?”

His first mate stepped into the cabin, a bit hesitant. “Sorry, to disturb you, sir, but some of the men were wondering if you’re planning to go back soon.

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