Riding With a Pirate: The Pirate's Deal, #2

By Claire Westwood

The second book in The Pirates’ Deal series!

When a crooked butler made off with Ana’s noble title and inheritance, she was determined to pursue him and get back what was rightfully hers.  But hiring Captain Jack and his band of pirates may not have been the best choice.  Ana has spent the last couple days of the voyage locked inside the Captain’s quarters - and used as his own personal plaything, doing whatever he demands for his own pleasure.

But Ana knows that she won’t have to put up with it for long, as the ship closes in.  Each day brings them closer to the fleeing vessel carrying the thief - and besides, Captain Jack isn’t all bad.  He may be vulgar and common, but he’s also roguishly handsome, and he makes her feel things she’s never experienced before.   In fact, Ana’s not quite sure how to regard this devilish pirate.  For now, she’s willing to let him use her...

The second chapter of The Pirates’ Deal, this sexy pirate thriller is guaranteed to leave bosoms heaving and masts at full sail!  Keep out of the reach of cabin boys - this is for mature audiences only!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Claire Westwood
• Release date: Jul 4, 2014
• ISBN: 9781501415661

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Author's Note

This is the second book in the series, The Pirates' Deal.  The first book, entitled A Deal With a Pirate, is now for sale.

CHAPTER 1

By the end of the first day at sea, Ana was totally sick of the whole thing.  In fact, she was just sick, overall.

This is not the way that a lady of her station should be acting! she told herself firmly, but no matter how much she tried to mentally retake control, she kept on spending most of the time with her head hanging out the large windows at the rear of the sailing ship she was aboard, sick as a dog.  As well, every time her eyes dropped down, she saw the waves crashing and breaking against the wooden hull of the vessel, and she would feel a new wave of queasiness rise up from the pit of her stomach.

Perhaps if Ana could have left the cabin, taken a walk around the deck of the ship, the exercise might have helped her to better get used to the new environment, to the constant rolling and pitching of the ship as it sailed over the endless waves, to the ever-present sounds of the creaking wooden masts, the rippling of the canvas sails, the thrumming of the taut ropes that ran everywhere across the ship. 

Unfortunately, however, she was unable to do so.  Actually, she thought to herself, revising that last sentence, forbidden might be the better term.  If it was up to her, she would immediately have gotten out of the cramped interior - but Jack, the captain of the ship on which she was a current passenger, had other ideas.

At that thought, Ana cursed.  Normally, as a lady of proper birth and upbringing, she would keep such vulgar thoughts inside her own head, to herself, but she was trapped in a cabin here.  Who else was there to hear?  And honestly, just thinking about that blasted man made her want to scream.

Over the last day, she had gotten to know him - far better than she ordinarily would have chosen to do so.  But there hadn’t been much choice for her, no other options left open.  The circumstances had demanded it.

And oh, what circumstances those had been?  Just a week previously, Ana’s father had still been alive, and she had been living happily with him, spending most of the time with her nose buried in a book.  It had