The Following Sea (The Pirate Wolf series) (38 page)

She smiled with gratitude and lifted the locket out of Gabriel’s hand, her throat closing too tight to express how much it meant to have it back.

“Open it,” he said.

She swallowed, determined not to shed any more tears, and flicked the tiny hasp with her fingernail. When it opened, she gave a little cry and the watery floodgates burst open again despite her resolve.

It was the ring. The plain gold ring she had found hidden in the coral box.

Gabriel rose off his knee and took the ring out of the locket. He slipped it gently on her finger then raised her hand to his lips.

“It isn’t all I have to give thee, my love, not by a far cry… but it is a jolly good start.”

THE END

If you have enjoyed Gabriel’s story and have not yet read the first two books in the Dante series,
Across A Moonlit Sea
features the Pirate Wolf himself, Simon Dante, who finds love in the arms of the Black Swan as he sails with Sir Francis Drake to attack and burn the Spanish port of Cadiz. The second award-winning book in the series is
The Iron Rose
, the story of Juliet Dante, who saves a pompous English nobleman and teaches him harsh lessons about life on the Spanish Main.

Other unrelated high-seas adventures include
The Wind and the Sea
and
Bound by the Heart
.

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