pirate captain · ruthless · dark romance · high seas · traumatic past · charming · violent · amnesia · noble heritage · shipwreck
The sun blazed, pitiless, on the heaving ocean, carving a lone silhouette from the wreckage. Captain Silas Thorne drifted, limp, salt crusting the raw wounds on his skin. The Sea-Wraith was gone, swallowed by the deep. Bleeding and empty, he stared at the indifferent sky, accepting the slow, undignified drowning the sea offered as his end. Then the water beneath him darkened. A long shadow slid under the surface, silent and swift, before a figure rose from the waves, breaking through his solitude.