Save the Sea (Saved by Pirates #3)(44)

“Go and enjoy your life with your pirates. Just please come back sometime. I want to meet this little one, and I will miss you,” Everly says, placing her hand on my bump. It’s harder than I thought it would be to leave her here, but I know this is her story and not mine. Everly is one of the strongest people I know, and she doesn’t need me. My story was always to get her here, and to set my people free. Now it’s time for me to enjoy what I fought for.

“Nothing could keep me away,” I promise her, and she nods, wiping her tears away.

“Be safe,” she whispers, and I hug her once more, whispering, so only she can hear.

“I am so proud of you, my lovely sister, and the true queen you were always meant to be.” I pull away before she can reply and walk over to my pirates, knowing we are finally free.





Epilogue





Cassandra





“Riah! Get down from there, you could fall!” I shout at my daughter, as she swings like a monkey on the ropes hanging off the sail. She is always climbing something, that girl.

“I will get her,” I hear Jacob say behind me with an amused tone. I smile as he pulls himself up, grabbing our daughter who laughs and jumps on his back. He climbs back down, putting the naughty little five-year-old on the deck. She grins up at me, her dark-blue eyes proclaiming innocence like I didn’t just find her climbing again. She looks so much like me in some ways, with her brown hair in braids, and her changed one mark on her forehead. Riah's is a crown, and I was shocked when she was born with it.

“Dinner is ready, and you know your dads will be mad if you are late to dinner again,” I tell her, and she huffs, rolling her little eyes at me. I try not to laugh as she picks up her little pirate hat, putting it on, and stomping off.

“Stubborn, brave, and fearless. Who does our daughter remind me of?” Jacob asks, and I laugh, shrugging.

“No idea,” I say, wrapping my arms around him. I watch the water sway in the distance, the calm peacefulness of the sea, and the sight of Vivo flying around Onaya which we have just left.

“This is everything I could have ever dreamed of,” I say quietly, and Jacob kisses my forehead as my bond flares to life with happiness and joy.

“Everything was worth the fight, for the life we now have.”





Thank you so much for reading Save the Sea! I hope you enjoyed the last book in the Saved by Pirates series! Please keep reading for a excerpt from Heir. Which is the mermaid spin off and Everly is the main character.

A big thank you to Meagan, Michelle, Taylor, Olivia, Amanda, my Arc Team and everyone that has made this book possible.

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Heir Spin off





Chapter one of the Saved by Pirates spin off-

Heir (Mermaid’s and God’s series)





“Queen–” Tyrion starts to say as he bows at me in the hall. I trail my eyes over his built body in his new red shirt, the tight black trousers, and his messy brown hair. It’s curly, with little curls falling into his brown eyes when he looks up at me. He is so handsome, and I know I’m not the only one that notices. It just seems like I’m the only one he doesn’t care about noticing in return.

“You don’t have to call me that Ty, it’s Everly,” I smile at him, but he keeps his expression cold and emotionless. He's been like this from the moment I told him about the promise I made to the mermaid king. The price I paid months ago to save my friend and to save Calais. To marry him, a complete stranger. Yet, he doesn’t care about that, apparently. My best friend won’t even look me in the eye.

“Queen Everleigh, the council has called you to the throne room,” he says, and then turns to walk away. I start to follow him, but I don’t because he walks away too fast, and I can’t run to catch up. I have a stupid damn limp in my leg because a sword did too much damage in the war. I look back at two of my personal guards, both of them silent as always, but they are watching. I swallow my annoyance at Tyrion and walk down the corridor and towards the stairs, limping the whole way. I try to hide it now, but it doesn’t make it easy. Everyone here knows about it, anyway. I finally get to the second to top layer of the mountain, where my rooms, the throne room, and the council room are located. The council does have another room above us, but only changed ones can enter that. Changed ones are people born with a mark on their forehead, marking them as kissed by the sea god and special. The war was because of them, because the old king used to hunt their kind and kill anyone that protected them. Like he tried to do to me for protecting my best friend, Cassandra. I smile as I think of my best friend, knowing she must have had her baby by now, and I can’t wait to get a letter to find out if it’s a boy or a girl.

“Queen Everleigh,” three guards at the door say as I walk into the throne room, and I hear them close the door behind me and my guards. I look over at the two council members in the room, Master Pirate and Master Light. Both of them I have come to trust. I stop when I see the woman standing just behind them. Her bright-blue hair is down, and she actually has clothes on this time, when usually she never wears them. Mermaids don’t from what I’ve seen.

“Kiaw?” I ask, walking over and offering her my hand to shake. She does, and I feel how warm she is, almost burning.