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Having my groceries under my arm, I sprinted through the falling rain. The rush was actually no use anymore, I had already rained completely soaked, but the atmosphere around me was dark and I quickly wanted to sit by the fire so I kept running until I was at the Inn. I didn't earn much so I lived above the only inn in Havana, but it was better than nothing. Greeting the kind owner, I wanted to talk with him some more, but someone else had suddenly caught my eye first and I dropped my groceries in shock. The man like an lion was talking to three other men I didn't quite know, but I remembered him as no other. The blue eyes, the voice, he had grown up, but I was sure it was him standing there.
Swallowing, I noticed the whole inn had went silent and were focused on me when I had lost my grip on my bag and I shyly backed down a bit. I didn't like being the center of attention, but there was no where to flee to at the moment. And then it happened, he looked up... slowly surveying me from head to toe and back up until he locked gazes with me. I had the urge to look away, do anything to fight my desires, but his eyes kept me where I was. He was the only man that had been my listener, the only one I could tell anything without being judged, the only one to help me with rather embarrassing female things.
We were young, slaves, but he no matter what had always protected me, caught the lashes that where meant for me, took the blame on himself every time, helped me when I was in pain, embraced me when I was cold. That was until he was suddenly gone, gone out of my life, like he had just vanished and had never existed at all. I had never heard from him again and here he was, right before me, on the opposite side of the building. Grown up like a true man, probably a lot of girls in his life I couldn't fit between, a true king and a true lion in his kingdom.
"Y/N!" He seemed as baffled as I was and the three men surrounding him were even more surprised and confused when the handsome man left his friends to step towards me. One man who had talked to him was taller than the lion with a long black beard and was elderly than the other two. The one on the right was red haired, you could notice that by looking at his beard because he was bold everywhere else. The last one on the left was a bit smaller with an out of fashion sideburn and black hair. He had pushed himself through the crowd that had finally continued dancing and gambling and I took a quick glance around me if anybody was watching the scene.
"Charles." I stumbled over my words as I watched the lion making his way towards me. After he smirked at me when I uncontrollably stared at his chest and he spread his arms.
"Permission granted." With innocence I glared up to see that the man meant it and I lifted my arms to wrap them around his neck while he tightly hugged me back, something I never thought would happen again.
"Honestly... I... I missed you." I silently whispered in his ear as he softly left a kiss on my earlobe while I had still buried my face into his neck.
"I missed you too." I heard him respond to me and I met his eyes when I backed off a bit.
"Really?"
"You have been an important chapter of my life. Would be too precious to forget that pretty face of yours." His hand stroked my jaw as he explained further. "I couldn't get you out of my head. Somewhere deep down I still wish I had shown you love before I unknowingly left."
"You... we... we can't be more than friends." I sighed, checking my surroundings.
"Why's that?" The man slowly closed the gap that had formed between us again and he raised an eyebrow before smiling, making me stumble back even more until my lower back met the wooden bar.
"You-..."
"I'm a monster, a criminal, a pirate captain? So you heard?" He hissed through his teeth, but remained calm while his fists clenched. Probably filled with rage, but trying not to hurt me or scare me while thinking I was judging him or afraid of him.
"You are beyond my reach." I finished my sentence, not caring he was a pirate, hell, I would have loved to be something that would have granted me that much freedom as well. "You can conquer other women."
"What if I tell you that's not what I desire?"
I went silence as the man leaned into me so my back was almost laying flatly on top of the bar and I could feel his hot breath stroking my neck as his face was just a few inches away from mine. Suddenly, every emotion I thought I couldn't feel at the same time rushed over me and I tangled my fingers in the captain's hair while crashing my lips on his. He didn't seem shocked and melted into the kiss within seconds before lifting my legs with his hands to hook them around his waist so he could press his body on top of mine even more until I was laying on the bar completely flat this time with the air being knocked out of my lungs by the intimidating moment.
"You'll always be mine." He breathed into my ear before pulling me off of the bar, acting like nothing had happened even though everybody knew different. His blue eyes met mine and I smiled at him while he grabbed my hip, escorting me to where he first stood to introduce me to his friends.