There were three things she realized during her outing with Liam that she wasn’t expecting:
She did come to enjoy being in the market again, rather quickly too. After a few worried steps where she clung to the arm of the Pirate on her left, she eventually left his hold all together to examine things on her own.
The people in the market who had been there for years did actually care about her. There were many older ladies who pulled her into their grasp, having heard rumors and speculation about what happened to her. Some stories had truth in them, while others were clearly based on wild fantasy.
And the last was that Liam had a charm he turned on that could make the most fearful person want to cut deals with a Pirate, and not out of fear, but because they wanted to.
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