Chapter 51: Pirates!

PART TWO: The Reliance

1668 – Porto Bello, Panama

Captain Edmund Merrick propped his head in his hand and gazed at the angel lying next to him. He eased a curl from her face and smiled as she squirmed and snuggled her head deeper into the pillow. How many nights had he spent without her these past three years? Too many to count. Now that he was back in the Caribbean for good, he found he could not keep his eyes off his wife.