The Heir's Secret Child: A Royal Scandal
“We sail from Myrkon to the nearer island and back, ferrying things that missed the big merchant routes.”
“This is good, Lena,” he said, before turning his attention back to Catherine. “I’m Nico.” He tipped his head, the movement almost like a bow, but casual. “Where are you from?”
Usually, she would have said ‘Eldoria”, but as her mother told her, she replied with, “From… Inland.”
“Places with more trees and fewer gulls?” he guessed.
More gold and less freedom. “Something like that.”
He smiled fully now and looked down at her work. “You sew neater than my last crew, anyway. They’d lose half a seam to a bad wave.”