The Captain's Pearl (27 page)

He laughed. “You may force me to admit I was wrong about one thing, blue eyes.”

“Yes?”

“You may prove to me that you are not a little fool after all, for believing that our story would have a happy ending like the ones in the thousand stories box.”

“This is not the ending.” She pulled him over her. In the moment before his lips found hers, she breathed, “This is just the beginning of that happy-ever-after.”

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