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Believing Stede is dead, Ed visits the Bonnet estate. Mary does not know whether she can trust the strange, sad man at her door.
(First chapter, Ed and Mary, grief and sadness. Second chapter, the softest of soft and romantic reunions, with the softest of romantic sex)
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Mary tries to close the door abruptly, and the stranger quick as a flash slips his boot into the gap. Damn.
The stranger lowers his voice, talking in a warm rumble through the gap in the door. “I need to talk about Stede.”
There’s something about the way he says his name, a tiny pause before, almost running out of air as he breathes out the word. His eyes flick away as he says it, like he’s looking to someone who used to be in the empty space beside him.