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He tenses and narrows his eyes "No, you knoouldn’t"

"Then you can’t use being a pirate as an excuse for being a monster"

He stares at ht, I can’t"

I look out at the blue ocean, and closesomersaults and my entire body is tense I’m nervous, scared as hell and desperate for answers Hendrix wraps an ar to be okay No ht

The island is equally as beautiful as the one ere on before It’s a little smaller, and the sand is , the trees thick, the air fresh and pure Both ships come to a complete stop a few hundred meters out This island has little sand and et over to it As soon as we all stop, I see rip Hendrix’s hand desperately

"Got your back, baby," he htened," I whisper

"Indi," my father says when he stops

Up close, I can see he has two scars on his face: one going up on an angle from his top lip, and the other up near his temple His eyes search my face, and I can see so much emotion in them He cares, even in all my fear I can see that I look at Hendrix once ether alk off down the beach When we’re out of sight, he finds a spot on the sand and sits down I do the sao…"

"No," I whisper, looking at my hands "You don’t"

"I do, because I, too, have had to live without the only thing I loved"

"You don’t love me You wouldn’t have left if you loved me"

"I had no choice"

"There’s always a choice," I cry, turning to hio?" I ask, feeling ht when I was out I…killed so my eyes ith tears "What?"

"It was an accident, I was drinking and decided to walk home He came out of nowhere and tried to attack me for money, and in my self-defense I went too far I hit him so hard he went backwards and landed on the footpath, hitting his head and killing him instantly I knehat I had done, and I panicked I couldn’t spend the rest ofI could: I ran"

He stops for athe ht away I spent four years running, but one day I , and he told me stories of pirates and the laws on the ocean Tired of running, I used what little money I had left to buy a ship I’ve been out here since"