In Chapter Fifteen, Lady Corwyn's "protector" punishes her for trying to escape and the pretense is that Du Joles is doing anything other than trying to sell her to the highest bidder evaporates. He reveals the peculiarities that sentenced him to the new world and Corwyn realizes that she is in mortal danger as he becomes violent toward her. 

Pirate's Desire, being the tale of a Lady's adventure at sea, is a dark historical romance written by Andreya Stuart. Music for this episode was created by the brilliant composer Aleksander Shvarev and licensed from Pond5. Remember you can always find more dark romance novels to listen to on Dark-Romance.com.