ASHES OF HER MERCY
"We reach the coastal waters of Florida in forty-eight hours. Until then, you stay in your stateroom. Captain Miller has strict orders not to let you on deck without an escort."
He turned on his heel, his long, deliberate strides carrying him back toward the warmth of the glass-walled main cabin, leaving me alone in the freezing ocean mist.
I collapsed into one of the exterior deck chairs, my breath coming in ragged, painful gasps. My body was broken, my heart was a ragged ruin, but deep inside the cold ash of my life, a tiny, stubborn spark of anger began to burn.
He thought he had won. He thought by freezing my assets and putting me in this floating prison, he had extinguished Seraphina Va