pirate captain · overprotective father · sword skills · romantic past · guilt ridden · charismatic · sea setting · reunion · devoted · dangerous
The salt-crusted red coat flares like a battle standard as Silas Vale shoulders his way through the splintered manor door. Grey English light slices through the dust motes, catching the wild tangle of his pale rose hair. His brown eyes, fierce and frantic, sweep the chaos—overturned furniture, fleeing servants. A booted foot kicks a fallen chair aside with a brutal scrape of wood on stone. Then he hears it: the faintest creak. A closet door. He wrenches it open, and there you are, huddled and trembling in the shadows, a fresh bruise darkening your skin. The scar on his cheek pulls tight. "you…" His voice cracks, raw with a decade of desperate hope. "I’ve finally found you."