Swept to Sea by Manning Heather

Author:Manning, Heather [Manning, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Astraea Press
Published: 2013-11-24T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Eden stripped off her soaked undergarments and replaced them with dry ones and a simple yellow dress she had found in the back of the armoire. She assumed most of the dresses she wore came from other ships or perhaps the captain’s dead wife. A pirate ship did not seem to be a place to find miscellaneous dresses lying around.

She wrung her damp hair out and tied it up into a tight bun, all the while trying to put a stop her sobbing.

Why she had fled from Caspian like that, she was not sure. The poor man certainly had not done anything to hurt her or make her act like that. He did not deserve her childish reaction. But she was so… so touched that someone would say something like that… say that she was special, that she had simply not known what to do. So she had run.

As she always did to escape anything that troubled her.

A knock sounded on the door. Startled, she leapt up. Should she open it? It was probably just Caspian, coming in to console her. Again. Did the vexatious man not understand that when she left him like that it meant she wanted privacy, and not to be hunted down by him? Why could he not just leave her be?

She shook her head and opened the door a crack, lest he become worried because she failed to answer the door.

But the door was forced open upon her touch, sending her scrambling against the bulkhead to regain her footing.

Caspian would never be so rude to her. That much she knew for certain. Who could it be on the other side, forcing his way in?

Kelton’s leering face met hers. His sun-streaked, blond hair hung in disarray around his shoulders, and his black eyes sparkled with lust.

“What is it you want, sir? The captain is not here. I am afraid I must ask you to leave.” Egad, she should not have said that. She wanted to get rid of him, but she did not want him to realize she was all alone without Caspian to protect her. How foolhardy could she possibly be?

By the look in his eyes, she had divulged exactly what he wanted to know.

He gave a lecherous grin that sent a tremble all the way from her spine to her feet and confirmed her fears.

“Good. I do not want that prissy, little man here anyway. And isn’t it perfectly obvious what I do want, my little trollop?” Placing both hands on her waist, he shoved her backwards in one sharp swoop.

“I am most definitely not yours, and I am certainly no trollop!” She tripped on a bit of the bulkhead that jutted out before stumbling downward.

Eden’s head struck the bedpost as she fell and she cried out in agony. It seemed as if she had hit the same exact part of her head as when she had bumped into Caspian’s desk earlier in the voyage. Her vision swirled and she took several long, deep breaths as she struggled to maintain consciousness.

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