““She inclined her head respectfully to Marcelina. “So you’re the captain’s wife, then?” Captain Bane snorted rudely. “Hardly. I’d have slit my own throat first.” “As would I,” Marcelina said in the same scoffing tone. “Neither of us had a real say in our fates or misbegotten whatever this travesty burden we share is.” She swept a less than flattering grimace over his body. “I can’t imagine a more horrid fate than what you speak.””