CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
HOOK: THREE YEARS AGO
If it hadn’t been for the fact that a pirate even worse than myself were looking for me, I never would have stumbled into the home of the Endlesses. Sometimes, I went there to do trade. But I tried to stay away. A few years ago, I’d been sent to kidnap a young girl. Emma Endless. With her jet-black hair, and dark green eyes, visions of her face had haunted me.
The girl had people who loved her.
A whole family willing to die to protect her. Or at least, that was what it seemed like. They certainly hadn’t taken kindly to me kidnapping the girl. Now, years later, it seemed to be the complete opposite.
They were all more than willing to send her off to the wolves. She was going to be devoured. If she was going to be devoured, she might as wel
