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Peace of mind?
Redemption?
She frowned as she realized she had no idea what it was he truly sought. He had said his fury was dulled. He’d destroyed Winston. So what was left for him?
When all was said and done, what then would become of the pirate turned patriot?
“What is it you want out of life?” she asked. “Will you spend the rest of your life wresting Americans away from the British? Or is there something more you want?”
Morgan sighed. “I’ve never given it much thought. I suppose I’ll be like Barney, an eccentric old man walking around with a bald old bird.”
She smiled in spite of herself.
He looked down at her. “What about you?”
Her smile fading, she sighed as she thought about her useless wants. Other than writing, there had only been one other thing in her life that had seemed important. Something that was every bit as illusive and impossible as her wish for a career. “I always wanted children,” she confessed past the lump in her throat. “Two boys and two girls.”
“Then why did you never marry?”
She gave a bitter laugh. “Who would marry me? What with my ludicrous ideas of mutiny, what man could ever put up with it?”
Morgan smiled gently at her. Any man with an ounce of common sense would put up with her.
But he couldn’t say it out loud. Confessing that might give her hopes about them. After all, she was a reckless dreamer who already fancied him as some sort of mythic legend. He didn’t dare say anything that might make her think she could win him over.
He’d already made that mistake with a woman, and he wasn’t the type of man who repeated his mistakes.
Unlike Serenity, he was a realist who had banished foolish dreams along ago.
Even so, he stroked her soft cheek with the back of his fingers, wishing that things were different. Thathewas different.
“I have your word then?” he asked her. “You’ll never write one word about my identity?”
Her eyes twinkled mischievously, and deep inside he cringed. “Only if you promise me one thing.”
He realized he had no choice. “Anything.”
“I want you to take me up to the crow’s nest.”
