Bettina
With Quartermaster Chub and his wife’s counsel, I’ve settled into my role as a pirate queen like a guppy to the sea.
I don’t miss my Kraken tentacles now that I have a purpose.
This crew of rag-tag misfits depends on me to keep them afloat, fed, and not swinging from a Sheriff’s picture frame.
Our first trip up the eastern coast of the continental colonies is honest work, but that doesn’t mean a prize won’t turn our heads toward the sweet trade.
Once I offload the debauched satyr we’re removing from Boston’s high society, our crew will seek our fortunes.
Hybris
When my parents named me, they shouldn’t have picked the word for overconfidence, willful arrogance, or insubordination.
All I did was live up to their expectations.
It’s not like I steal, fistfight, or drown myself in alcohol.
I’m a lover, not a fighter…which is exactly why I’ve been exiled from Boston.
If those women prized their virginity more, they wouldn’t have begged me to relieve them of it.
Oh, their pretty pleas ring in my ears as my parents lecture on my responsibilities in civilized society!
My ruined reputation isn’t my fault, but who listens to an other? As I board the ship, I can’t prove my parents hired pirates to make me disappear, but it’s my gut feeling.
Hybris triggers everything in Bettina’s painful past, but she can’t behead him as promised in her contract with his parents.
The ship seems to shrink as he befriends the crew and worms his way closer to her.
What will she do with the salacious satyr? Certainly not fall for his charming ways…
