Fee-Christine Aks - The Green Woman

He had to keep a sober mind. Giving up was not an option. His luck and fortune lay in this ship, and he would not give her up. To forfeit everything now, he had already taken too many risks.

Like running wild coach horses the memories sped through his head: He had never had regrets about his decision to go to sea; even though he would have liked to leave his hometown Huntingdon in different circumstances. At Lloyd & Sons he had learned everything he needed as a carpenter’s fellow.

But a future in the provinces he would never have established, even if he had not aroused the hate of Melissa’s brothers. Maybe they had calmed down by now; after all, it was more than three years since he had turned his back on his county.

Well, what worried him much more right now was the promise he had made to Pamela’s brother. James Morton had vowed to give him Pamela for a wife, if he were to bring that small pouch of sailcloth to England without detection. But what of it, when they were now sunk here, somewhere between Sicily and Sardinia, by the damned Frogs?

John heard Talbot cry out. A moment later the poop deck broke open. The second officer clung to the wood like a rat and, still holding the steering wheel, went overboard.

John would never see how the nineteen-year-old disappeared. A huge tremor made him lose his balance and flushed him with the next wave through a gaping hole out of the dying ship’s hull.

His last thought was with the mysterious woman who was tied to his luck and fortune. He had not been able to save her sufficiently. Soon enough, they both would find their eternal rest in Davy Jones’ Locker. One last flash of cannon fire cut through the dark stormy night; then John passed out.

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