He said nothing until they were in her bedchamber. Dominic pointed to a stack of clothes Lucy was laying out on the bed per his earlier instructions. “Dress in these and meet me outside in a few minutes.” The maid’s eyes turned to Dominic.
“How is Mr. Lee?” she asked.
“Grumbling a storm because you aren’t on the Dragon,” Dominic answered with a grin. He had noticed that the little maid had taken to his reluctant cook. Lee, like Reese, had discovered Luke was in fact Lucy only a day into the voyage to Tortuga and had seemed quite captivated by the woman. If there had been more time, there might have been a future between them, one that would have proven beneficial to the bellies of the Dragon’s crew.
“Is he to return here soon?”
“He had to return to the ship to see to the men there. But
