Through Dark Storms (Beneath Black Sails, #4)

by Clare Sager

“Oh, Lords, how? I—bloody hells, I realised months ago.”

Didnt we all...

Please, no. Not hurt. Please.

This is actually kind of sad

This one know loss—is last of kind.

🥺🥺

This one give thanks.

Me love kraken

Fetid and rotting—she smelled it before she saw it,

Our girl is septic

Her gift in his. She’d said his was there inside hers, too. And hadn’t it happened as they’d made love? Had they inadvertently performed this ‘bonding ritual’?

WE LOVE MATE TROPE

One with light. The tip of the kraken’s tentacle touched a silvery line that traced across their body. As waves of lighter and darker red flowed through their flesh, that line remained pale. A scar? One this one knows.

I love that Knigh can talk to him

“A ship is safe at shore, but that’s not what ships are built for. Your heart is the same.”

“It never was only a town. Nassau is its people—it’s you and me, and as long as we still stand, so too does Nassau.”

and up on the quarterdeck stood Knigh Blackwood.

FINALLY

Vice fought a smile as fierce, hot pride bloomed in her chest. Good gods, she loved him.

This was home on sea or land. Whatever Sanctuary ended up being, she would always have a place here.

IM SCREAMING

most of all, the way he consumed her like she was air and he was a man drowning.

“I am gladly your subject in all things, my Pirate Queen, but let me have this.”

SCREAMING

“Queen of Pirates, Queen of My Heart, the best bounty I ever chased, the most infuriating woman I’ve ever known”—the corner of his mouth quirked—“the most wonderful, too…” His chest rose and fell under her hands. “I love you.”

When all he wanted was to be alone with Vee, to marvel at the fact he loved her and she loved him, and they were together at long fucking last.

ONE MORE TIME FOR THE PPL IN THE BACK

I found that smutty book of yours, Vee”—his finger slid against her, stealing her breath—“and I read it cover to cover.” He circled her once, twice. “I found it quite informative.”

This is top tier

“Come here, Blackwood.” She placed her hands on his shoulders. “Come home to me.”

I love this line

He is my complement, my match in drive and determination, and my opposite in the things I lack. He’s my partner in crime, and I want him to be my partner in captaincy.”

I love everything about this

“There’s no one else I’d rather share a captaincy with—no one I’d rather share the world with.

“I just couldn’t find my pistol this morning. It must be in the lockers with the others, but I feel naked without it.”

Pshhhh Is got it or their mom

asked Is and Mother about weapons.

Little do they knw the mother has the gun and is gonna kill mercia

“But Mercia”—she fluttered her lashes, hand going to her chest—“you said I was your guest. Don’t tell me that was a lie.” She tugged theatrically on Knigh’s sleeve. “Say it isn’t so!”

I love her so much

“Mama!”

Shiiiiiit

If only people’s hearts and minds were so easily mended.

“We did it.

Were less than halfway and theyve found it... This cant be good

Sanctuary was no uninhabited island—it was a thriving town.

Velaris but in water

“So he has woken the leviathan.”

SO heres my plan… go get your friend the kraken

“Yes. I do want you to tell me those things. Because then we can talk about them.”

The communication FINALLY

“I was wrong about Father and about Mercia. But I’m not wrong about you.” The intensity in his eyes held her still, but her heart thudded, solid and loud. “I have faith in you, Vee.”

She raised one shoulder. Not many things in life compared to Knigh, and certainly no one’s tongue matched his.

“Whatever monsters come, this will guide you home.”

“Only the gods know what tomorrow will bring,” he went on, “but this place, this night… I’d do it all over again to be here with you, now. And I might die tomorrow, but I hope not, because if we survive this, I’m hoping you might do the only thing that can make me even happier than I am now and marry me.”

AHHHHHH

“I’ll never lock you up, but I’ll never leave you, either.”

“My queen on her throne.”

he was a warrior whom everyone jokingly called Thor, because his weapon of choice was a war hammer, and he looked a lot like the thunder god from his ancestor’s homeland of Noreg.

Lolololol

The final thread snapped. And she became the storm.

Oh yes, he was going to enjoy repaying his future wife most thoroughly.

Tmypt

He didn’t check which way the needle pointed—he knew where north was,

It welcomed her, cradled her. It was still safe, still hers.

I kind of love this

The kraken.

YESSSSS

They’d won this battle. Won this home.

But where is mercia??

As soon as she was back in her body, he’d do that.

ALso can she be out of her body this long?

“I must find George.”

Mercia is def using George to get Knigh

“We’re all a bit broken, aren’t we? I think I’d rather be this kind of broken than the one I was before.”

“Friends come and go, like waves on the shore, but the true ones stick around in your life, like an octopus to the face.”

HA

He tried to stamp out everything wild in me, just like Papa did.”

This makes me hurt so bad for her

“I am more than happy to submit to you in any way you wish. I am yours, whatever you wear, however ladylike you do or do not wish to be, whatever ‘wifely duties’ you wish to perform or to ask of me.” His grip tightened. “When I become your husband, I promise I’ll still be the same man I am now.”

She was definitely a pirate, because she stole the breath clean from his lungs.

“I used to think love was weak,” she went on, “but now I know it’s only for the strong.”