The Wedding Ring Quest (2014)
“His boat cloak enveloped them both, which she found comforting, not because she was cold, but because it felt like protection she hadn’t known since her parents died. Her aunt and uncle were busy leading their own lives and she understood that. Here was this man she could barely call a relative, going out of his way to care a little. It was unexpected and altogether gratifying.
She couldn’t help but lean into that pleasant hollow between a man’s shoulder and chest that she remembered on one... occasion from her late lamented lieutenant, before he’d pleaded poverty—her poverty—and cried off. She didn’t want Captain Rennie’s pity, though, and she sat upright to tell him that.
Before she got a word out of her mouth, he gently pushed her head back against his shoulder and tightened his grip on her.
‘Suffice it to say we have both missed out on many things, thanks to Boney,’ he told her. ‘I will probably hate the man until I die, this employer of mine.’ ‘You probably shouldn’t call him that.MoreLess
She couldn’t help but lean into that pleasant hollow between a man’s shoulder and chest that she remembered on one... occasion from her late lamented lieutenant, before he’d pleaded poverty—her poverty—and cried off. She didn’t want Captain Rennie’s pity, though, and she sat upright to tell him that.
Before she got a word out of her mouth, he gently pushed her head back against his shoulder and tightened his grip on her.
‘Suffice it to say we have both missed out on many things, thanks to Boney,’ he told her. ‘I will probably hate the man until I die, this employer of mine.’ ‘You probably shouldn’t call him that.MoreLess
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