Three days on the island had brought about a fantasy life that Lacey had not even dared to dream of in her youth. Danny far passed how he was in her dreams. She wondered if he realized she was the same little girl he had caught in his arms on the dock over six years earlier. However, she was such a small child then and Danny was already turning into a man. She highly doubted he'd remember her at all no less being such an insignificant event probably to him. Yet, that moment made such an impact in Lacey's young life that it had carried over to the very moments she was spending with Danny on this island.

Danny stared over at Lacey. She slept soundly in their makeshift dwelling. Danny wondered if she felt at peace. He knew that he had found peace with her.

Danny watched her as her body lay nude before him. She was his everything now. She had captured him rather than him holding her captive now. He slid closer to her and enveloped her into his arms. He found himself blessed with having her near. Danny felt he would be happy with her forever here. However, would she feel the same with him? She deserved so much more than he could give her. He knew that.

Lacey's eyes fluttered open to Danny staring at her. "Did you sleep well?"

"Yes. I slept very well." Danny grinned at her. "Did you sleep well, my dear Lace?"

"Yes. I did." Lacey sighed and bit her lip. She whispered as if all could hear even though no one was around. "My body is sore this morning. I think that normal."

"We made love more than once. A lot more than once. " Danny winked as he sat up. "I say that is very normal for a female rarely touched before."

Lacey leaned up as she pulled on a shirt that the pirates left for Danny. She allowed it stay slightly open as she eased herself closer to him. "Is it normal that even though I am sore, I would like for your body to join mine again?"

Danny pulled her to lie on top of him. "I don't think there has ever been anything normal about us, Lace. Why start now?"

"Yes. I agree. Why start being normal now?" Lacey slid up Danny slowly as she enjoyed the feeling of their skin against skin. "Make love to me, Captain."

"My wish is your command." Danny teased as he captured her lips with his.

Two weeks had passed as the two lovers remained on the island in solitude. They didn't fear Rico Rinaldi's wrath any longer. They were sure that he had faced Lacey's death. Lacey worried of her family grieving. She hoped that Clara understood her secret message in the letter. It would not change if her family thought her dead. Lacey would still prefer her life on the small island with Danny to the life as a lady in Macau. That was strange because with Rico, she refused to leave her family to marry him. But with Danny, she'd prefer him to her family even if she loved her family dearly.

They made love again before breakfast. Then they sat to eat some fruit that Danny had gathered.

"Do you want more?" Danny handed Lacey a small bite of pineapple that he had cut with his dagger.

"No. I am very fulfilled." Her grin spread across her face causing her dimples to show.

"Are you being naughty?" Danny bit down on his own piece of fruit as he smirked at Lacey's sexual comment.

Luckily many fruits grew in this region. Danny and his men had brought those seeds to this island. Just in case they ever had to lay low for an extended time.

"I am." Lacey leaned back exposing her brown toned legs. She crossed her ankles as she licked her lips tauntingly at Danny.

Danny's shirt seemed to be her choice of attire on the island. Danny didn't bother putting one on. When he did, it was usually ripped off by Lacey most of the time anyway. She had become rather aggressive with him in the last two weeks.

"I think I've awoken a beast." Danny chuckled as he patted his lap.

Lacey didn't hesitate to crawl on his awaiting thighs. "Danny." She brushed hair from his eyes.

"Hmmm?" He stared lazily at her.

"Can I shave you? Cut off some of your hair?" She raked her hand over his long tendrils.

"Sure. You do not like my hair?" Danny teased her with a wink.

"I like how it curls when it is shorter." She raked her fingers through his chocolate mane. "Your hair length pulls your curls out. I prefer it touching your shoulders."

"I am yours. Do as you wish." Danny couldn't help but notice the tiny grin that crossed Lacey's face.

She pushed him down back against their makeshift cot. She placed a piece of pineapple on his lip. She dragged it along one lip then another squeezing juice as she went. Lacey then tasted his lips with her tongue. She raked her lip slowly over each of his. Her tongue jutted out to taste the juice of the fruit.

"MMmmm. Let me…" Danny was going to grab her and torture her body, a good torture that left her begging for more, as he had been at least three times a day for the past two weeks.

"No. Let me this time. Let me enjoy the body that you have given me." Lacey purred in his ear.

She licked around his earlobe and below it. Danny thought he taught her well in the last two weeks. Of course, he had never really done things to a woman as he did her. Josephine was too inhibited over her body to allow him to experiment with her. Lacey, on the other hand, allowed him to enjoy her as a female. Lacey ran the fruit over Danny's chin and down his neck. She licked her tongue down the same path. She stopped at Danny's Adam's apple to go beside it and suck. She placed her legs beside each of his hips as she sat astride his body. He placed his hands on her thighs squeezing her dark, toned flesh.

Lacey unbuttoned her shirt slowly. She licked her lips as she said seductively. "What shall I do with you, pirate?"

"Lace…Gaaawwd." Danny felt himself want to grab her and throw her down. He wanted to take her forcefully but decided he'd rather let his vixen play awhile.

Lacey leaned down again as she took another piece of fruit from the bowl. The juices dripped from the fruit as she held it over her mouth. The juice dripped to the tip of her tongue as she curled it out from her mouth. Danny wanted to taste her tongue with all the sweetness it had to offer. But still he resisted. Lacey pulled the fruit over Danny's chest muscles. Once again she leaned to taste the trail of juice left by her play.

"Please, Lace." Danny barely audible whispered.

"Do you beg me, Pirate?" She narrowed her eyes to meet his.

"Aye, I do." Danny moaned in a guttural growl.

"Then allow me to make you beg me for more." Lacey slid her body down Danny's legs.

She traced the fruit down the path between Danny's abdominal muscles swirling the juice around his belly button and to the hair that trailed beneath. Her tongue followed suit.

"Please, my lady. Don't tease me as such." His voice was husky with a craving for the taunting female.

"I'd never tease a pirate. It may cost me my life." Lacey kept playing her game. The mischievousness was obvious in her voice.

She licked and kissed down his body. Soon she found Danny's fingers entangled in her hair as his mouth begged for her. His begging sounded so sensual to her. It was a growl from deep within his throat.

Lacey knew one thing without a doubt when it came to how Danny longed for her physically...

A pirate had become her captive.

A few more weeks past as the two remained in a blissful state. They relished in all their time together.

"You better run." Danny teased as he chased after a giggling Lacey.

"Let me alone, you scoundrel." Lacey squealed in delight at their play.

Danny picked up the shirt that had wafted back in the wind. "You're naked!"

"Yes!" She screamed. "Find me!"

"Don't you want me to find you? I'll make your nudeness be covered…" Danny laughed as his new adventurous maiden. "With my body."

"Danny!" She grabbed him from behind. "I got you."

"I thought I was chasing you." Danny turned around to face his lover.

"It is not much of a chase if I wanted you to catch me." Lacey grinned widely with her patented dimples dipping on her cheeks. "Beside, you were taking too long."

"I will never make that mistake again." Danny swept her up in his arms. "Make love to me."

"You don't have to ask twice." Lacey wrapped her arms tightly around Danny's neck as he carried her to their lover's paradise.

"Lace…" Danny lay her down on their leafy bed in the place they now called home. "Do you want to leave? We can try to sail out. This may not be the way to live for one such as you."

"I miss my parents and sister. However, we'll be separated. We'll be taken from each other. Before it frightened me. Now it is unthinkable. I love you. We love you."

Danny never said the words back. Lacey assumed it was because she was not afforded his love. But she still loved and adored him with all of her heart. Lacey traced circles on her lover's chest with her finger. She sighed contentedly. Loving her or not, this man still beguiled her to give him her all. She knew true love for the first time. She would have to face that love not being returned.

However, she hoped someday that Danny would love her back as intensely as she loved him.

Pulling her to his chest to rest her head upon him, Danny entangled his fingers in her soft raven locks. "Tell me about your family, Lacey."

Lacey sighed out dreamily. "My father is a joking sort. He loves to laugh boisterously at the smallest of things. He will tell the biggest tales only to end them with a joke."

"He sounds like a good man." Danny stroked Lacey's back as he pulled her closer.

"He is." Lacey sighed in contentment as she enjoyed Danny's feathery strokes on her skin. "His name is Samuel. That is a good strong name. My mother is named Judith. Her name means she will be praised. It suits her so well. She seems to be loved each day more and more with her age. She is more serious than father but she loves to watch her family and admire us. My mother loves us dearly. Then there is Clara." Lacey giggled at the thought of her older sister. "She is so opposite of me, Danny. Not only is she opposite in looks but in actions."

Danny could feel his heart beating faster. Was it right to keep this woman from such a great family? The family she obviously adored. He didn't deserve her. Rico didn't deserve her either. Not many men would be worthy of such a treasure as Lacey.

"Clara is short and slender. Her hair is all the way to her buttocks. However, she keeps it pinned up due to it being thin. Her hair was white as snow when she was a child. It has darkened some but not much. It is lovely against her pale skin and pale blue eyes. It was very strange how she looks considering my mother's dark skin. My older sister is also a class of her own. She is very dignified. Clara was always trying to calm me down as a child. Yet, she was always there to listen to me speak of you." Lacey said without thinking.

"Me?" Danny frowned. "How did you speak of me, Lacey?"

"I think I spied you when I was a child." Lacey shyly admitted. "I am not sure. But you look as the man I saw on the docks years ago. I dreamed of us after. Even if you were not the same, you are the man I dream of now."

Danny pulled Lacey even closer if possible. Sometimes dreams should be awoken from. His dream was to be with Lacey forever locked away from the world. However, she deserved so much more.

"Are you okay, Danny?" Lacey raked her fingers over his forehead pushing back his newly cut locks of hair.

Could this be the same girl that he saw on the docks when she was a child? Her eyes displayed the same youthful awe as the little girl. He never thought of her after that day due to being older than her and married. Yet, he remembered distinctly thinking how beautiful the child would be when she grew up. He was married then and the man that he was would be worthy of Lacey if he were the same type man. He was a different man now. One that had murdered in cold blood and sought for vengeance as hate seethed in his heart. Yet, he was changed yet again by Lacey. He felt different than the pirate that captured her from her wedding bed. Did he dare dream of Lacey belonging to him forever?

"I am." Danny smiled as he closed his eyes. "I am always fine with you beside me."