Her emerald green eyes seemed to into his soul. They knew what he longed for. He wanted change. He knew his days of pirating where coming to an end. He needed a wife. He wanted to settle down and live out the rest of his days peacefully. He knew that the fragile frame of the woman before him could give him what he desired, what he needed. There was a coldness about her though. Her eyes could see into his soul but his could not see into hers. There was nothing but darkness in her eyes. No love or happiness. Just hurt and darkness. He knew that he would have to leave every other woman from his past behind. She would not be easy to woo, but she would be his, in time she would be his.
His eyes looked intensely into her eyes. She would let him see all that had happened to her. Every other man she had ever been with, even if only for a night, somehow found out, but this man before her wouldn't. She wouldn't let him. She closed her heart and let all those old memories of hurt turn to stone. He would never know, she promised herself that.