Through Dark Storms (Beneath Black Sails, #4)

by Clare Sager

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

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

“Queen of Pirates, Queen of My Heart, the best bounty I ever chased,

“It’s a promise in ink and blood that I’ll always come back to you.”

“When you’re a queen it isn’t murder anymore. Just execution.” “Hmm.” She gave him a thoughtful, wicked kind of smile. “Maybe being queen isn’t so bad after all.” His eyes widened. “Oh, gods, I’ve created a monster.”

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

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