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I was surprised to find Agatha wasn’t at my side.
She stood beside Draw and my heart was in my throat.
This guy was dangerous and I had released some of the restraints.
Couldn’t she see that?
“Hey,” she said, smiling at Draw warmly. “You don’t need to be ashamed about this. We’re not going to tell anybody. And your men will never know.”
Draw responded by smiling appreciatively up at her.
“Thank you.”
“And you know,” Agatha said, bending down to retrieve the candle she’d dropped earlier. Its wick was still aflame. “You could always do this for yourself.”
She put it in his hand and they held it together as she tipped the wax over his skin.
He hissed with a mix of pain and delight.
Agatha joined me and I led her out the door.
I cast one last look at the obese figure in the bed and watched as he raised the candle over his body and tipped it to one side.
I swear, I would never understand how a man could prefer to do that than use the gorgeous hot body of the girl I had at my side right now.
On the plus side, it was better he was the one being (deliberately) violated than the other way round.
I prayed to the God of Small Mercies as we bolted down the stairs in the direction of the hangar and the route to freedom.
Freedom had never felt so damn close.
The stairs were too wide for me to take in bounds of two or three at once.
I could only manage one and a half at most.
I clutched Agatha’s hand and together we hurried down the stairs with a leap of excitement in our hearts that could only come with the knowledge of approaching freedom.
We would soon be out of here.
Still, the thought was tinged with sadness.
Agatha wanted to return home.
And I would want to go back to living a pirate’s life.
Or did I?
The idea of running down a freighter and marching on board like I owned the place didn’t seem quite so exciting anymore.
Or as necessary.
I had saved up a good amount of booty over the years,
I saved it with a single purpose in mind: to get more.
If anyone asked me what I wanted to get “more” for, I couldn’t have answered them.
It was the pursuit of money that mattered, not what I intended to do with it.
