Then fate removed him as he sailed for America to purchase more unwary young girls lured into warehouses, or abducted from the streets and boarding houses of New York. On April 15, 1912, Sir Drake disappeared as the Titanic slipped below the freezing surface of the Atlantic. Thus twenty-one year old Richard became Sir Richard Cailean, Laird of Blackthorne House.
“You’re a pretty little thing.” Garrett put his hand under the sobbing girl’s chin and lifted it to look at her face.
The newly captured girl whimpered. “Please, sir, don’t do this to me. Please, let me go home.” The brunette’s brown eyes glimmered with tears, her arms stretched upward, framing her heart-shaped face.
“But you are home, my lovely little dove. This cage is your new home, and we are going to teach you how to make m
