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Morgan cleared his throat and looked away as if embarrassed. “I never meant to hurt you.”
“Well then, if you do this much damage unintentionally, I hope to goodness you never set out for harm.”
He reached for her. “Serenity…”
“Go away!”
Morgan took a step back and stopped. He couldn’t leave her like this. She looked so frail in the moonlight with her white satin dress and her hair hanging about her shoulders in delicate curls. She’d laced her dress up tightly and worn a corset that lifted her breasts high. She wasn’t as endowed as the women who typically drew his notice, yet he found her figure breathtaking.
Delectable.
Had she done all this just for him?
In one way, he was flattered. In another way, he wanted to strangle her for putting him through the whole charade.
In one night she had turned him completely inside out. Had made Morgan Drake, pirate captain and man who knew the world and how to tame it, a babbling, bumbling jackass.
And for what?
Because she’d dared touch another man?
He flinched. That was ridiculous. What did he care if she touched someone else?
What did he care if shedidrun off with Fathead?
But the truth was, he did care.
He couldn’t deny it. The truth stood before him, just like the stone wall of the garden.
It was then he realized he loved her.
He felt as though he’d been struck.
Nay, he argued, he couldn’t possibly. She pushed him to the brink of murder. He couldn’t love a woman who delighted in tormenting him.
And yet he did.
He loved the challenge of her. Matching wits against a woman who could hold her own.
He loved her intrepid spirit.
He loved her lips, her humor, and especially the look she got in her eyes right before she started one of her infamous tirades.
Part of him wanted to cry it out, but for his life he couldn’t bring a single word past his lips.
Nay, he was a man of action, not words. He would show her his love.
He scooped her up in his arms and headed toward the stable.
“What are you doing?” she gasped.
“What I should have done a long time ago.”
Serenity stiffened in his arms. “Where are you taking me?”
“To my ship.”
“Why?”
