“Do you have a light?” she said, fumbling a cigarette from a box in her purse. I reached into my pocket and turned to light her cigarette when the...round paleness of her breasts caught my eye. Her shirt was very open, revealing freckles and the pink of an areola.I pretended not to notice, but she smile even wider as I lit her cigarette, unable to look away.“Thank you” she said, inhaling deeply and exhaling a sigh of smoke and boredom. “Do you come here often”I admitted I don’t usually, glancing. Early the next morning we came in sight of one of our pirate brother's sanctuaries protected by a number of land-based canons on high bluffs. No warship would venture too close to shore without running the risk of being holed by one of those nasty pieces. We were already in the harbor before I spied the presence of a large Spanish Man of War that must have sailed in under a flag of truce for a parlay of some importance.At the end of the long dock, we saw the raised platform for the dignitaries. Without it you'd be gorgeous. Either way, you're very sexy."She looked at me and gave me a smile as she blushed. she thanked me before confiding "you might not believe me but I'm really shy. Not only that but I've had this damn scar since I our dog bit me when I was eight years old and I guess you've noticed I'm a little self-conscious about it. There was always something about you that attracted me though. It's even worse now and I can't figure it out. It's not 'cause you look cuter now. ” He hollered.A woman stepped to the door with a shotgun in her hands pointed right at him. He saw a movement from the corner of the house and glanced that way. There stood a tall thin girl just a few years younger than him, she too had a gun pointed at him as he sat his horse, and wished to hell he’d never stopped here.No one said a word as the women eyed the stranger, as if he were a snake, and the man eyed both women trying to figure out if they were gonna pull the trigger or tell him to.