Fortune of Emerald and Salt (Seas of Marecult Duology Book 1)

by Monroe Wildrose

"You aren't Georgette Baine, sister of Elias Baine, daughter to Hazel and Nathaniel Baine, Captain of the Pirate ship The Siren, the ship with a stolen princess aboard?" "A female pirate captain with a stolen princess aboard her ship? Sounds like the stuff of fairytales."

"Has anyone told you that you are too lovely to be a pirate?" His eyes sparkled with mischief. "Has anyone ever told you that you might sound better without a tongue?"

"What will you give me for my name?" "Not a princess," I said, blocking an advance as he started pushing me toward the end of the pier. "That hardly seems a fair trade." "It's a very good name," he countered. "It would have to be very good indeed." "How about a kiss?" he suggested instead, and a sharp bark of laughter escaped my lips. "Do you often hand out threats of murder followed by requests for kisses?" "Since I have sworn to kill you next time I see you, this may be my only opportunity to kiss a pirate."

I gave him as graceful a bow as I could manage and blew him a kiss. I watched as he held his hand up in a gesture to catch it.

"It was something about the way they apologized to each other and touched foreheads after they fought. The way they refused to disparage the other and how they danced. Something in their determination to outdo one another in showing their love to the other. I cannot quite put words to it. I know that when I see it, I know it to be the love."

"If the sun and the moon cannot be in love for their differences, are all opposites to suffer the same fate?" I asked, shifting the tone of the conversation to be slightly lighter. "Day and night might be doomed as well?"