It wasn’t fair. It wasn’t fair, Caro mused, because they had won. They had somehow managed to fight off five men. They deserved this victory.
But now it was going to be snatched away.
“You boys arrived in the nick of time,” Snakeface said from his prone position. “Seize them!”
Caro heard Fanny swearing more viciously than the sailors as two men grabbed her arms. Henry was shouting at Caro to run. Four men had seized him, but he somehow managed to surge forward, struggling frantically as he dragged the startled sailors halfway across the room, such was his desperation to reach her side. His eyes met hers for one second before he was shoved facedown onto a crate, and Caro mused that if she was about to die, at least the last thing she would ever see was Henry Greville looking at her like
