Chapter 23
Vicente “How is she?” Tito asked as I made my way back onto the deck. I had mostly kept to myself after my morning visit to Ines and now that it was noon, I made sure to bring her tea and check on her wound. “She’s much better. A bit shaken up but she’s fine.” “Is the young lady in need of anything?” A sailor asked me, his head bowed down in shame. Shortly after I had carried Ines to my quarters I had heard shouting from outside the door. AfterI tucked her into bed, I exited to see the men in a panic and enraged at us for having a woman on board. “That’s not right!!” They screamed. “She’ll bring misery to us you see!!” “The ocean will swallow us whole with her on this ship!” Tito was angrily pushing them away from heading towards my room along with an older gentleman and his son.
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