Winds of Change 2 by Lee Rowan

Author:Lee Rowan [Rowan, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Gay, Fiction, Erotica, Gay Men, Historical Fiction, Sea Stories, Historical, General, Love Stories
ISBN: 9780979777349
Google: EHUNQAAACAAJ
Amazon: 0979777348
Publisher: Cheyenne Publishing
Published: 2007-01-01T11:00:00+00:00

Winds of Change

good humor dragging him from the bog of his own somber moods. Davy was gone. Dead. Forever. Marshall had no great faith in a hereafter, no hope of a resurrection, whatever the Book of Common Prayer said. There might be a God, and there might be a Heaven, and if they existed, Davy was there. He deserved to be; that was where angels belonged. But I won’t be. If he had deserved punishment for his hubris, for taking that stupid risk with Davy in the carpenter’s walk, this was punishment indeed. But it should not be Davy lying in the ground. He did not deserve death.

He is gone.

I will never see him again.

The tears started in afresh. It felt as though someone had cut his heart out with a handspike, and he had inexplicably failed to die. He couldn’t even finish the job himself; he had a duty to his men, to his ship, a duty to honor Davy’s memory.

A soft knock at the door. Oh, please, can’t you leave me alone? He mopped at his face with his bedraggled handkerchief. “Come in.”

It was Captain Smith.

“As you were, Mr. Marshall.” Without further ado, he took the hand-towel from beside the basin on the chest of drawers beside the door, poured a bit of water on it, and handed it to Marshall as if he were a little squeaker of a cabin-boy.

“Thank you, sir.” He tidied himself as best he could, and tried to look alert.

“Mr. Marshall, I would like you to accompany me on a short visit.”

Oh, no. He didn’t want to leave this room. It was not fondness for the room, but aversion to moving, to any movement or thought not absolutely required. “May I—may I ask where we are going, sir?”

“You may. But I am not able to tell you.” He frowned at Marshall, apparently assessing his state of disrepair, and 74

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