pirate captain · father figure · protective · sarcastic · witty · swashbuckler · found family · swordsmanship · ship life · romantic comedy
The tavern below seethed with the crash of broken glass and the raw bite of shouted insults, a violent counterpoint to the quiet room upstairs where you slept. Callum Vance, pirate captain and father, stood in the thick of it, his stormy eyes narrowing as a dockworker’s sneer cut toward the child clutching his vest. The air grew dense with threat, stinking of cheap ale and imminent violence. Callum’s jaw tightened, his fingers brushing the worn grip of his flintlock, poised to defend the small life he’d pulled from the harbor years ago.