“Hey Indy, what’s up?”
“Indiana’s here?” Her excited, soft voice makes me smile as Ryker steps back, opening the door so I can see her seated at the table, finishing her breakfast. She wears a small shift dress, hanging on by two tiny straps over her shoulders.
“Hi, Sugar, how are you feeling?”
Her cheeks redden and she bites her lip before answering, “Good, did you come to say hi?”
“Yes, your husbands wouldn’t let me come see you before now, but I decided I can’t wait any longer, I came to break you out,” I tell, standing up tall as my eyes bore into hers.
“You guys should have told me he wanted to see me!” she chastises them, making me smirk.
“Red, we were a little preoccupied.”
“Still…” she mumbles before looking back at me. “So you’re here to break me out?”
“Actually, I wanted to ask you to be my date to the village festival tonight.”
“A festival?” she asks excitedly. “That sounds like fun, I’d love to be your date, what should I wear? I don’t really have much clothes, come to think of it.” She frowns, looking down at herself.
“I actually have a plan for that, too. If you want to get dressed now, in anything you like, Silver has made arrangements at a local clothing store to get you some new clothes. We thought the four of us could take you there and help you get outfitted with what you need for this world.”
“That sounds amazing, but does everyone know I’m not from this world?” she asks in concern.
“No, just us three,” I reassure her. I haven’t told anyone and I’m pretty sure her husbands haven’t either.
“Okay, I’ll be down in twenty minutes, is that okay?”
“Take your time.” I nod to them before closing the door and going downstairs to wait.
“So?” Silver asks eagerly when I get downstairs and sit at the table beside him. We’re in the same tavern as before, they are just in a larger room now.
“She seems excited.”
“Good.” He smiles, looking down at the table, deep in thought.
“Are you going to actually tell her you wish to court her?”
“What?! No, I don’t want that.” He shakes his head, clearly in denial. I just raise an eyebrow at him and he continues. “You don’t understand, once she knows I’ve spent years as a pirate, she won’t want anything to do with me.”
I laugh at that. “You clearly don’t know her yet at all if you believe that to be true. You know where the three of us come from, and does she judge any of us from our pasts?”
“Well, easy to say when your pasts don’t include anything quite so uncivilized as being a pirate.”
“Silver, I haven’t known you long, but I can tell you aren’t a bad guy. Tell me, did you hurt any innocent people?”
“No.”
“Did you steal from people who didn’t deserve it?”
“No.”
I shrug telling him, “Just tell her that, I’m sure she’ll understand. You saw the way she reacted to the magic, she’s pretty open-minded.” I wonder how open-minded she truly was, what would she think about my brother?
Footsteps interrupt my train of thought and I glance up to see her walking down the stairs in the emerald dress she was married in. It looks truly exquisite on her.
Silver and I both stand as she approaches, Brax and Ryker right behind her like sentinels.
“You ready to go, Sugar?”
