A Pirate's Love

Chapter 6

Chapter 6

            She couldn't look at him.  She turned her head away from him but he forced her to look at him.

            "Where is your husband?" he asked.  Anger seething in his voice.

            "Dead." She said not blinking.

            "How long?"

            "What do you mean how long?"  she tried to look away from him once again but he forced her took at him.  His hands squeezing her upper arms.  "Jack, let go, please." She pleaded as she felt his fingers digging in.  He loosened his grip, but did not let go.

            "I asked you how long ago did your husband die?"  she could see the anger in his eyes.

            "Four years ago." She said quietly.  She could see the wheels in Jack's head turning.

            "Four years eh? You certainly didn't waste any time finding another man now did ye?"  Madeline could feel the tears beginning to well in her eyes.  She pulled out of his arms and slowly started to walk towards the Turner house.  "So ye hopped out of my bed and right into someone else's?"  Madeline stopped suddenly.  The tears began to flow down her cheeks and she quickly wiped them away.  Jack walked up to her and faced her once again.

            "If you loved your husband, why are ye crying?"

            "Why do you care Jack? You've never loved anything in your life except for your damn ship!" she yelled at him and picked up her skirts and broke into a run once again.  By the time Jack caught up with her she was running through the gates into Elizabeth's garden.  When he caught her, he held her tightly to him.  His arms wrapped around her as if he was never going to let her go.

            "Don't ye run away from me again lass! I don't like it!"

            "I've never ran away from you in my life, now let go!" she yelled. Struggling to free herself.

            "Yes you have lass.  Five years ago too long for you to remember love?" Her eyes widened.

            "I don't know what you're talking about Jack."

            "Stop lyin' to me lass! I know you weren't kidnapped off me ship.  You left on your own."

            "I was kidnapped Jack.  I'm not lying to you."

            "Yes you are Maddy love.  Members of your crew knocked members of me crew out.  Then you made your way."  Jack had pushed her up against a wall of trellis in the garden.  He lifted his finger and traced the outline of her jawbone and he moved his mouth to her ear.  "Did my touch frighten you love?  Or did it excite you beyond belief.  The touch of my hands on your naked skin."  He snaked his tongue out to her earlobe.  Madeline couldn't help but moan out loud.  "That's it love.   Remember who I am.  What I can do to you."  He moved his hand to caress the curve of her breasts.  They molded in his hands and he could feel her nipples through her dress.  She arched her body towards him.

            "Jack." She gasped as his tongue moved further along her neck.  She wanted more.  Dear God she wanted him.  She had never stopped.

            "Remembering that it is only I that can make you scream.  Not your dead husband."  Madeline shot back into reality and shoved him away.  Tears once again filled her eyes and she ran into the house.  Jack watched her.  He loved her.  She never gave him the chance to tell her.