Within A Captain's Soul by Lisa A. Olech

Author:Lisa A. Olech [Olech, Lisa A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2017-07-31T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 14

The last hour felt like ten to Jun as she dismissed the men hired to add twenty more junks to her fleet. How was she expected to concentrate when Will was waiting for her? For the last twenty minutes alone, she secretly used the sign for ‘please,’ as in please stop talking and stop showing me new hull designs and please let us be finished.

“Are you feeling unwell?” asked Peng. The pointed angle of his eyebrows met in a sharp frown.

Jun bit her lip to keep from screaming. “No, why do you ask?” Please let me leave…

“You’ve looked flushed all afternoon and keep touching your chest. Are you having pains? Should I fetch your physician?”

“I’m fine, truly. Nothing that a bit of peace cannot cure.” She saw her chance to escape. “If you’ll excuse me.”

Please, no one call my name. She moved with a determined clip to her stride, but as she pushed through the doorway into her private quarters, Jun hesitated. She still didn’t have a good answer to the question Will posed earlier.

The words he wrote had churned in her mind since she’d left him to wait for her. ‘What are we doing?’

“I don’t know.” She threw her hands wide and spoke to an empty room. Once Will kissed her, her mind hadn’t been able to think of much else. Jun brushed her fingertips over her lips, savoring the memory. He needed to kiss her again, and soon.

The entire scene had been her idea, bringing him back to the exact moment they had been interrupted. But once there, Will took command as he had the night before, capturing her, plundering her mouth, stealing her breath. Jun smiled a small, seductive smile. Capturing, plundering, stealing… He might be a merchant captain, but he sure as hell kissed like a pirate—not that she’d been kissed by many.

Yes, he needed to kiss her again.

She pulled her armor off once more, reveling in the lightness. Was he still in the garden? Had he stayed? Jun headed toward the doors. In her haste to join him, she almost forgot to remove her headdress. Pulling it from her head, she tossed it aside, smoothed her hair, and hurried into the garden where she nearly collided with Ting.

Ting held up her hands to stop her. “Mistress, you must come see where my mischievous daughter chose to take her afternoon rest.”

“Is Captain Quinn still here?” Jun loved Qi, but hoped she wasn’t bothering Will.

“Yes, come see.” Ting led the way before turning and laying a finger over her lips. “Shhh, I found them just this way.” She swept her hand toward the alcove.

Jun’s heart flooded at the sight of Will and Qi sitting side by side, with the child innocently curled around his arm, sleeping soundly against his chest. Will held Qi’s tiny hand.

Jun made a sound like air leaving a set of bellows. In her brutal world of battles and bloody conquests, fleets of hardened, vicious men, when was the last time she

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