Captain Tomas threw his head back and laughed hysterically. “No one will know what happened to you. I will simply tell anyone that comes looking that I dropped you off in Narrwin as agreed. Dar' Ven is a jungle, my fine royals, and many disappear within its borders every year.”
His words chilled Rhiannon to the bone because she knew he was right. With her dead and Fianna gone, she had left Ventra with no ruler. She did not know how Kyia would handle being the Proxy Empress long term and she knew Shankee did not want the position any longer—if she ever did.
Rhiannon pinned him with a sharp look. “Why are you doing this? You could ask for a ransom that would make you rich?”
“Let me tell you a story, lass. My brother’s story. He was also a pirate, like me. He frequented the eastern shore o
