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A stowaway. Balthazar had not time to deal with such annoyances. Not now, when his thoughts were full of Bianca.
Оглавление“Mendoza!” he shouted. “Turn back to Santo Domingo. We have a knave to set ashore.”
Balthazar reached down to grasp the lad by the collar of his doublet, knocking his cap askew. One long, dark brown curl escaped, falling along a startlingly graceful neck.
The stowaway shoved Balthazar’s hand away, standing up straight as he/she pulled off the cap. Bianca glared up at him, shaking her hair free over her shoulders.
“You cannot turn back, Captain Grattiano,” she said. “The wind is against you.”
As Balthazar stared at her in utter astonishment, he heard someone roar with laughter. “Looks like we have a new crew member, captain.”
“I can swab a deck or mend a rigging rope with the best of them,” Bianca declared. Her words were bold, but her eyes—her eyes still held that deep caution. That distance.
A distance that had suddenly grown much narrower.
Balthazar caught her against him, his lips coming down hungrily on hers as his crew broke into raucous cheers.
