Ch.27

Vane asked if I was going to leave him in suspense and I tapped Idelle's rear so she'd stand, telling her. "Bring me the best wine and prepare to spend the night in my company. Max is too tired and in need of rest lest I hurt her on accident. She's…sore from fucking."

Idelle blushed and left with a nod while I took out a pin and ink quill from the madam's desk. I wrote down a word with a number and sat down, sliding it to Vane and telling him seriously. "You burn that after you read it and keep your men's mouths shut or you'll die together before I set sail."

He nodded and read the message before rolling and burning it. He asked seriously. "What's my cut?"

I waved a hand. "Equals, down the middle for both crews after Eleanor's share and if there's two man o wars you keep one while I'll keep the other and we haul our ships back with them once the loot is loaded."

He nodded and held out a hand. I shook it and told him. "Two weeks exactly we set out. My men are beaching and cleaning out the Ravager as we speak. You do the same because if we're successful we'll need all the speed we can get to overtake them before reinforcements arrive. I don't fancy taking on a fleet of man o wars with my ass hanging in the wind. My men and I can still win, but I'd lose too many and I value their lives more than any prize, even this one."

He nodded and I sighed. "Word is Flint may have an interest so keep your men's lips sealed or I'll silence them for good. I don't fancy a war before the prize is even ours. Eleanor favors him and she has Hornigold's ear. We do this quick and quiet like and no one dies."

He nodded slowly and stood up before Jack and Anne did the same before he asked curiously. "Why me over Flint?"

I grunted. "You can be reasoned with. However savage we are, we're alike and I can count on you to know what I'll do if you try to fuck me. Flint is…less reliable. He fights when he aught to run, runs when he aught to fight and doesn't see reason without a blade over his throat or vice versa."

Anne said I sound almost afraid of him and I stood up, grabbing her by the cunt through her trousers as her blade graced my balls. I looked her dead in the eyes and coldly spoke. "I fear no one and nothing girl. Imply cowardice again and I'll make you see things you've no concept of before I fuck you until you can't walk straight for a week."

Her green eyes met mine and she smelled of fear and a hint of lust. My fingers vibrated across her leather clad cunt and arousal soon overtook fear. I released her and her arm before telling her never to question my honor again.

She straightened herself and I turned to Jack and Vane. "Flint is unstable and passionate. The same qualities that make him a praise worthy pirate in Eleanor's eyes make him an unreliable man to deal with in a partnership. I need to know those I trust won't stab me in the back and cost my men their lives needlessly."

Vane nodded and left with Anne and Jack on his heels. Idelle returned with the wine and sat in my lap saying Max had eaten and bathed so she's now asleep again. We go ad a couple glasses before we adjourned to her room while I tossed a bag of gold coin on the madam's desk while looking to the owner. "Tell the girls to wash up and come to the room as soon as they're done. It's going to be a long night and I'm feeling in need of stress relief."

Noonan nodded without a word as it was a very rare occasion indeed that I take anyone from the inn besides max to bed, let alone for a full night. Every girl, every hole, all night, I let my savage animal side fuck them all until they were fully tired and fell asleep. The entire night I burned through them faster than an addict in a field of coke and opium. I washed up and made sure we were all clean disease wise with my suit's nanites before leaving to Max's room at dawn to wake her up.

She said it was about time I found my way to her. I checked and when she didn't flinch, we began round three before I told her to tell the others to have Noonan bring them to the beach for a fuck tent for both the Ravager and the Ranger. She nodded and asked if Mrs.Mapleton was needed for the others considering I'd released on her stomach and tits.

I nodded. "I feared hurting you love, them I don't care about. She's taking care of them now."

I touched her chin. "You'll come to my tent and stay to see where the money for the pearls you swiped will be made up for?"

She nodded and smiled before asking if I was mad. I shook my head. "Not in the slightest mon cheri, but I will be very put out if our ventures reach Eleanor's ears through your bed. Honest, there may even be spanking involved."

She rolled her eyes and said her rear has been through enough punishment for Silver's games. I chuckled lightly and told her to wash up because she would be my eye candy while I plan with Vane. She said she would endeavor to please my eyes then. I left as Mrs.Mapleton finished cleaning the other girls out.

She asked if Max needed her and I shook my head. She sighed in relief as she said their cunts were so full there was hardly any room for the cleaner. I ignored her complaints, grabbed a bottle of rum and tossed a bag of coins on the bar in front of Noonan. He was more than happy with the arrangement.

I headed to the beach where the Ravager was being hauled, tied down thoroughly and the beginnings of cleaning. My tent was set up already so I told my first mate, Tato and my Quartermaster Augustine, that the fuck tents would need to be readied and a bed put in my tent for Max. They sent out the order and I told them they'd be sharing with the Ranger crew, but all the girls in the Inn were coming.

They told the men the good news and they were quite happy to work. I grunted and warned my first mate not to give the men alcohol, pure drinking water only. "They can fuck till their cocks fall off, but I want them sober for the work. I'll be abstaining as well so I'd best not hear bitching or they'll go without the fuck tents as well."

He nodded seriously and he gave the order to the quartermaster who made the crew see my reasoning. They didn't know what prize we were after, but seeing me abstain from rum and alcohol even from my own supply was enough to make them keep their mouths shut. Tato asked about the bottle on my desk and I grunted. "For Max and the women. You're to make sure they're the only ones that get it."

He nodded and I told him to send for Vane once their ship has been beached down the coast a ways. He nodded and I worked on the charts, asking for a glass of water and telling the cook to put a hog on the fire for the men. I worked ceaselessly on plans of how to take the Urca and the ships that may be in the area with as few casualties as possible. Tato brought me a glass of water as I smelled the hog cooking.

Noonan arrived with the whores and Max around noon with Mrs.Mapleton and a dozen men to protect his interests. I waved to the tents and the men began splitting into groups while some cleaned and tarred the ship, others ate and fucked, paying their own way. The women enjoyed food, sex and rum in a shady yet breezy beach. I grunted hearing the wind and told Tato to add three more anchor lines to the farthest trees and send a message to Vane to add five to his main side.

He nodded and gave the order to the quartermaster who saw it done before the runner returned twenty minutes later with Vane who rubbed his head. I tossed the boy a coin that nearly made up the whole of his hand and told him good work. Tato had him head out before Vane sat and noticed Max, mostly nude and relaxing on the bed. I grunted. "Best you keep your eyes on the work lest I consider Hornigold a proper fit upon your sudden lack of eyes."

He turned from her saying my moves have attracted Flint's gaze. I shrugged. "Our ships are beached. In two weeks they'll be ready and we'll be off to our prize. He has no proof, doesn't know the location and even if he did, he's behind by several days and doesn't have the guns or men capable of taking the Urca. If he wants to fight over an assumption he cannot prove, he can bring it. My men don't fear death Vane, they fear disappointing me for reason I've yet to decipher."

Tato spoke. "It is because of your generosity. They fear you'll not want them if they disappoint you. You've given us a great many things and bestowed us strength we wouldn't have lived to see if you'd not liberated us that day."

I shrugged. "I was bored and the slave ship thought I wasn't serious about being a pirate because I sailed in a dingy. They insulted me and died for it. You and the men were just there and I have no love for slavery. It's as simple as that."

Vane looked at me weirdly. "A dingy?"

I grunted. "A ship doesn't make a pirate. The will to do what you want no matter who sets the rules and be fucking free makes you a pirate in the eyes of the crown. I warned them I was going to board and take their ship, they laughed in my face and died before they could scream."

I tapped the maps and we cut the small talk before I told the men to set the fuck tent between both ships evenly and set up round the clock guards in case Flint tries his shit. Tato nodded and Vane called in the runner boy before telling him to give a letter to Jack Rackham. The boy ran fast and Vane looked to the charts while we worked. I told him the weather indicated a squall by the time we're ready to sail so with any luck the Urca would beach and lose her escorts if they've reached her, but if not, that's what we planned for.

He asked what happens if they're beached and I told him the guns on my ship can outreach any eighteen pounders as they were triple barrel hundred and eight pounders that can take down castle walls in minutes and level a city the size of London within hours. He was surprised and I shrugged. "I used to be a blacksmith and inventor before the sea called."

We went back to making plans for every outcome and days passed before Eleanor graced my tent, inquiring what prize I was after that I'd court a man like Vane. Vane put a hand over his heart saying he was wounded and she said he'd live. I told her outright. "I got a lead on the Urca de Lima from a fake cook aboard a ship Flint raided. He was a thief in actuality and I paid top dollar for the information. Five million in Spanish gold."

She asked coldly. "And you were going to cut me out of it?"

I raised an eyebrow. "Do I look like I'm cutting you out? I've not lied to you when you asked and I've no reason not to go after the Urca. The deal is set, you'll get your cut as we've been agreed to for a decade now."

She lost her cold tone knowing it wouldn't end well if she pushed now that I've been reasonable. She told me. "Flint is to join you."

I growled. "Flint isn't going near the Urca. I've courted the Ranger and our bargain is set as agreed to. I'll not break my word for a partnership with a man who killed his own crew member and called him a thief just to stay in power."

I stood up and glared at her as she stubbornly looked to me. I shook my head. "If Flint beats us there and takes the Urca himself I'll not say a damned word, but I won't give him the location and I won't help you appease a man over a childhood fantasy of love. You don't want to cross me on this Eleanor. You'll lose my favor next."

She cursed. "Fuck!"

I shrugged. "Me or Vane here, cause I'm not the sharing type with other males."

She glared at me and sighed. "You've fucked me on this one Oz."

I shook my head. "I've not fucked anyone. I simply don't like honor-less desperate men. If it's about the money he borrowed, your share will more than make up for the thousand I hear you lent him. If you need the money now I've got enough to recover your costs, but I'll take his ship as compensation since he can't pay it back."

She shoved my chest saying I was insufferably reasonable. I grabbed her chin and made her look at me as I growled. "Careful love, push too hard and you'll learn how unreasonable I can be."

I released her chin. "Whatever tale Flint has spun you will not end well. His fantasies are half baked and his will may be strong, but he mistakes hardness for strength. He will self destruct and take anyone nearby with him. It is his nature ever since he turned pirate and waged a bloody war of vengeance on the British nobles who screwed him over."