The wind proved to be favorable for Yuri’s men. The ship carried them to Ruritania in just two weeks. But the days Anna spent on the ship were fraught with the constant fear of being tortured or r***d.
Gustav, the man she’d learned was the leader of the men in charge of her a*******n barely kept control of the other men on the ship. It was a shocking thing to witness. She recognized many of these men, some who had served as guards since she was a child. She’d once trusted her life to them, and now she feared for it.
The unfortunate truth was that Captain Fain was the reason the men held themselves in check. Soon after she’d arrived on the ship, she’d heard soldiers’ whispered tales of his brutality as they spoke to each other over dinner or card games, and it left her cold and shaking at
