“Guess I should be flattered, shouldn’t I?” Her voice was like velvet. For a moment—a wholly unprecedented moment—Jin’s throat thickened. No woman should have a voice like that. Except in bed.
“Why did you sink my ship?” The steely edge he had learned as a lad came to his own voice without effort. “She was the fastest vessel on the Atlantic. What kind of privateer are you, putting a prize like that under water? She would have taken a fine price.”
She screwed up her brows.
“It’s true, I could’ve kept her, Master Brit. Or sold her. But it was such fun seeing the mighty
Red washed across Jin’s vision. He tried to blink it away. His gut hurt. Damn and blast, he wanted a cutlass and pistol more than life at this moment. Or perhaps just a bottle of rum.
She smirked.
They said she was a fine sailor for a woman, but no one had ever said she was mad.
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KATHARINE ASHE lives in the wonderfully warm Southeast with her husband, son, two dogs, and a garden she likes to call romantic rather than unkempt. A professor of European history, she has previously resided in California, Italy, France, and the northern U.S.
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