A Crown Cut with Salt
A princess, even one only pretending, has no business wanting a pirate.
When the watch changed and the deck got its quiet back, Kade put me on the midnight to two. He took it with me.
“It’s a waste of a captain,” Jas said dryly as he gave up the wheel.
“It’s my waste,” Kade returned, equally dry.
We stood with the wind in our faces and the sea black and honest ahead. The bell from the galley ticked the hour; the compass heard it and didn’t care. His sleeve brushed mine once, not by accident, and then never again. He showed me how he reads the dark by the feel in the palm, not by what the eye lies about. I showed him how a city reads a crowd, a different sea, a different tide, and he listened
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