Page 5 of His Pirate Wife

“Devin, we’re here, help us,” Mia cried and pounded again on the planks. “Devin, the tide, theti—”

“Mia, hold on I’m coming.” He stood and pulled his jacket off. He could go in and lead themout.

“Captain, no you can’t. She’s trapped,” Mr. Brinks said. “Both ends of the supports are solid rocks. She’s trapped between them and theship.”

“Get the ship out of the way. Pull the ship back,” Devin heard a man yell, but that would take too long. The waves washed out then back in this time before Mia could callout.

“No. Get a pry, an axe,” Devin yelled, and someone passed the request to the very ship trapping his wife, and he assumed the child, in thewater.

“Captain,” Asher called, holding out one of the axes hecarried.

Devin waited until the waves rolled back. “Mia, move port—port Mia,” he warned then with a nod he and Mr. Asher raised the axes high and brought them down. But it was no lightweight wood dock they hacked at. These boards were meant to hold tons ofcargo.

“Hurry, Devin,” Mia called, and he heard her cough and choke. Another wave camein.

The axe next to Devin’s hit especially hard and Devin looked to see Grim had taken over for Asher. “Hurry, Grim,” Devin urged and lifted his axe again. “Hurry man, smashit.”

Two more strikes and Grim’s axe broke through. He kept chopping away, opening the space wider. Pries were held out. He and Devin both tossed the axes aside to get down and work the boards loose. As soon as the hole was big enough the boy’s head was pushed through. He gasped, coughed, and cried. Mr. Asher grabbed a fist full of his clothes, but the hole wasn’t large enough to pull the boythrough.

Looking down, Devin could see Mia was holding the child up at her own peril. The wave washed out and Mia’s face appeared. She sucked in a breath and that was all she could do before the waves came in again. “Grim, cut through there,” Devin pointed. Mia’s head and body were at this hole. He’d have Grim start opening wide from a few feetdown.

The man lifted the axe and brought it down with force enough to shake the ground. Two more swings of the same strength and the boards fell away. Asher pulled the child through so Mia could reach up and get air. But she didn’t surface. “Mia?” Devin screamed reaching down into the dark waters and searching blindly for her. Nothing, he was about to stand and go in when he felt the tug on his sleeve, then he felt her take hold and he did the same lifting as others stepped up to help him pull herup.

Mia was pulled out and dropped on the dock face down. Still as death. Devin rolled over her, straddled her, and setting his hands on her back, shoved upward. Once, twice and with the third push, Mia coughed up water and gasped for breath. She coughed violently for a long while before taking a first fullbreath.

“Mia?” Devin rolled off and lifted her into his arms. “Mia, are you allright?”

“Aye,” she managed, coughing again. A collective sigh was released by all the witnesses. Devin helped her sit up as she tried to look around. “Theboy?”

“He’s out. You saved him,” Devin said holding her closer and patting her back while she tried to take a deeper breath. She was hampered in theeffort.

“I hate corsets,” she said then her face crunched up. “And I hate England,” she wailed then turned her face against him andsobbed.

“I’ll book us passage straight back to Jamaica right now, Mia,” Devin said, relieved when she stopped crying to look athim.

“No you won’t.” She sniffed and used her soaking wet sleeve to wipe her face. “It’s so cold, Devin,” she told him even as she began to shiver violently. Whether from shock or the cold winter water, he didn’t know, but he needed to get her dry and warm. He stood then dragged her to her feet before lifting her into his arms. But he wasn’t sure where to take her. Back to the ship could be best, but he didn’t have the means to dry and warm her fast enough. Everything was packed andstowed.

“This way, Captain,” the vice admiral said, turning him towards the street. “Someone’s gone ahead to see a room iswaiting.”

“Here, Mia,” Mr. Asher stepped up and dropped a blanket overher.

Devin was led up to a cab and placed inside. The driver was ordered to take him to the hotel that was booked for him for the week. The vehicle lurched forward, and Mia started sobbing again. “It’s so cold, Devin,” she said and placed her hand on his arm. Her fingers were blue. So were herlips.

“Let’s get out of all this.” He yanked the strings on her bonnet which lay against her shoulder rather than on her head. He let it fall to the floor. Her cloak followed then he turned her and pulled the buttons loose, not caring that the dress tore with his haste. Mia pulled her arms free then putting her hands on his shoulders, stood enough that he could tug the dress down. It landed in a sodden puddle at her feet and she stepped free and kicked it away. Mia spun around put her hands on the opposite wall and looked over hershoulder.

“Get it off me, Captain,” she cried, and Devin pulled the small knife and cut through the laces of the corset. It fell away, and Mia sucked in a deepbreath.

That little bit of air gave rise to color though she still shook, and her teeth banged together loudly. “Off with it,” Devin said as he lifted her foot and pulled off the slipper and stocking. She was still sitting there when he lifted the next. “Out of the shift,Mia.”

“Devin, I’ll be naked,” she said through herchattering

“Yes, that is what you’ll be. It’s that or frozen. Now off with it.” He saw her hesitate then lift up so she wasn’t sitting on it and he pulled the shift over her head. She tossed it down with a dramatic sigh and before crossing her arms over her breasts he caught a view of those dark nipples standing straight up. “Here now,” he said trying not to laugh as his relief finally caught up to him. “Wrap up in this.” He shook out the blanket and spread it open over his lap. Mia moved into his arms and he folded the ends over and began rubbing her. “Better?” he asked as she was able to keep her teeth from knockingtogether.

“Aye, only…” She leaned against him. “Only when I dreamed about being naked in a coach with you. This wasn’t what I had inmind.”

“God save me Mia,” Devin yelled then burst out laughing and pulled her in tight. “God saveme.”

Chapter 3

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