Chapter 35 Choices and Costs
I found him where I always did.
Corner booth. Chair tipped back like he trusted the balance of it more than the floor. Hat low, shadow cutting across his face so clean it felt deliberate.
For a second, I just stood there.
Watched him breathe.
Watched the slow rise and fall of his chest, like not...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Dancing with Dockhands
2. Chapter 2 Last Mug, Last Tales
3. Chapter 3 Hey, Ma
4. Chapter 4 Bones of the Tavern
5. Chapter 5 Predators at the Door
6. Chapter 6 Queen of Tavern Rats
7. Chapter 7 Names in the Wreckage
8. Chapter 8 New Footsteps in the Wreckage
9. Chapter 9 Whispers in the Dying Sun
10. Chapter 10 Between the Crates
11. Chapter 11 Dockside Chaos
12. Chapter 12 Adrift
13. Chapter 13 The Only Woman Aboard
14. Chapter 14 The Captain's Quarters
15. Chapter 15 Lessons in Rope and Salt
16. Chapter 16 A Seat at the Captain’s Table
17. Chapter 17 Rum and Reckoning
18. Chapter 18 Drag Me In
19. Chapter 19 Between the Waves and the Door
20. Chapter 20 Red Sails Rising
21. Chapter 21 Rival Pirates
22. Chapter 22 Ready Aim FIRE
23. Chapter 23 Sink or Float
24. Chapter 24 Washed up
25. Chapter 25 Strangers on the Island
26. Chapter 26 One Bed
27. Chapter 27 Grief of My Mothers Ring
28. Chapter 28 Safety In his Arms
29. Chapter 29 Old Habits in a New Tavern
30. Chapter 30 Blue Ribbon
31. Chapter 31 Stories in a Dark Corner
32. Chapter 32 Another Day A Different Mark
33. Chapter 33 A Mark Gone Wrong
34. Chapter 34 Salt Crusted Pirate
35. Chapter 35 Choices and Costs
36. Chapter 36 Card Games
37. Chapter 37 Blood trails
38. Chapter 38 Dawn's Betrayal
39. Chapter 39 Rebellion
40. Chapter 40 What I missed
41. Chapter 41 The Dive
42. Chapter 42 I want this
43. Chapter 43 Choices
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