“Do you think you can address me that way?” Hardraker’s flashed face was shining with evident hatred.
At first Johnny didn’t even understand what he was saying. A moment before the pirate was shouting against him; a moment later his neck was firmly clenched between the pirate’s fingers.
“I could break it”, Hardraker warned him. “It would be just child’s play for me, believe me.”
Johnny tried to get free, stamping his feet uselessly on the deck boards, and rolled his eyes to Avery, certain that he was going to intervene: he found him rock-solid in his indifference.
So it isn’t true that he is ready to do anything in order to rescue me, he thought in deep frustration. The place surrounding him started to get blurred. I wonder what I had taken into my head. I’m really a fool.
His mind ma
