A crowd of villagers gathered around the wooden platform as the sound of a tambourine sounded out as the symbols clanged together as Roman joined villagers at the front of the platform as he watched his beautiful wife dance to the music she was playing.

Her wavy blonde hair falling to her waist, flowing with her movements as the colorful skirt made of lavender and blue fabric swayed with her.

Melissa's golden bracelets clanged together as she danced, her gold hoop earrings going against her wavy hair as she danced, the blue and lavender head scarfed swayed with her hair.

Roman knew his wife was the most beautiful woman he had ever laid eyes on. He smiled as she danced but tensed as the men around him hollered and hooted for her to continue her dance.

They put money into a hat for her as she entertained them with a Romanian dance she had learned from her mother. The crowd eagerly clapping along as she danced.

"She's beautiful," said Dean as he stood next to Roman.

"One of the most beautiful women I have ever seen," responded Roman.

"You cannot tell she's increasing," he said with a smile.

"I'm the luckiest man alive."

"You're in love," he smiled.

"Very much so," said Roman with a proud smile and a sound of pride in his voice.

"I love her very much. I'm giving up this pirate life," he announced.

"You're not going to be a pirate anymore?"

"Nah," he answered.

"This life is no life for a baby and I don't want to be away from my wife. We'll sail to Spain, take care of what we need to and then come home to Jamaica to settle down. I want to raise a lot of children, give them a stable life, spend as much time with my wife as I can."

"What will you do for coin?" he asked.

"I have my crops," he answered.

"I'll sell my tobacco and sell my cotton to Europe to make money, I will spend more time inside my pub and Melissa has her way of life. I think we will be all right not to mention all the gold and riches I have acquired over the years. It's time to settle down."

"I'm impressed by how much she has changed you. I never expected nor would I have thought that you would settle down, marry and have children. You used to enjoy the pleasures of different women every night."

"Why does everyone believe I cannot change? Am I that much of a brood everyone believes I cannot settle down, be a husband and a father?"

"I'm not saying that you can't change I'm saying I'm surprised. You never seemed to be the type of man that wanted a family."

"I wanted to breed and produce children at some point in my life," he said as he kept his eyes on his dancing wife.

"I just didn't know that I would settle down after doing so. I want my children to learn the trade of a pirate and the trade of a gypsy but I don't want to take my children or my wife onto a pirate ship. The dangers that lurk and the enemies I have make life too dangerous for them. I cannot risk any harm coming to them. I would never forgive myself."

"I understand what does this mean for the crew? What happens to us?"

Roman placed his hand on Dean's shoulder and grew a smile on his face. He gave Dean's shoulder a soft squeeze as he said, "There will be a new captain named to take over the crew and the ship," he said.

"A new captain?"

"You," said Roman with a smile.

"I'm giving you my ship and my crew. I'm making you the captain of the ship after I give it up."

"That's quite the honor," he said with a smile.

"I couldn't be anymore grateful for this opportunity. Thank-you," said Dean.

"You deserve it," said Roman.

"Now onto Seth have you heard anything about that weasel?"

"He's lying low for a while, no one can seem to track him. He could be here in Jamaica for all we know but I doubt he is. I believe he is planning an attack."

"Has word been spread about that we will be making trip back to Spain?" he asked.

"Everyone's lips have been sealed there is no knowledge of our voyage."

"Good," said Roman.

"I can only handle one murder at a time. Bohemas is the first on my list and then Seth. I know I need to get rid of Seth before he comes after Melissa and my unborn child."

"How are you going to handle Bohemas?"

"Melissa and I need to work on a plan. I need to teach her how to use a dagger and a sword."

"You might be surprised on what she knows," said Dean.

"Melissa strikes me as the type of girl that knows how to defend herself with a dagger and a sword."

"That would make my life that much easier," he said as the crowd erupted in cheers as Melissa finished her dance.

She scooped up her money and exited down the platform. Men cleared a space for her as she made her way to her husband.

Roman wrapped his arms around his wife as she joined him and Dean.

"You were beautiful."

"Thank-you, My Love," she said with a smile.

"I made us some coin."

She showed him the money.

"Wonderful," he said with a smile.

The crowd was starting to break up around them before they decided to make their way to Roman's pub to discuss their plans for Bohemas.

As Roman, Dean and Melissa sat at their private table in Roman's pub Dean and Roman were given their Rum on demand while Melissa drank her water as she sat on Roman's lap, his arm wrapped around her waist and his free hand on her growing stomach.

"We need to make a decision how we are going to handle Bohemas." said Roman.

"We need a plan to take care of him."

"What are your plans?" asked Melissa as she played with Roman's black hair which she knew he enjoyed a lot.

She was the only woman he ever allowed to play with his hair. Her fingers combed through his hair and massaged his scalp.

"My papa may find it suspicious that I am home to visit him."

"I can bribe him with gold, tell him I want to give him gold because his daughter is bearing me a child," he suggested.

"Then after I give him his gold kill him."

"How are we going to kill him? Poison, stabbing how will we murder him?" she questioned.

"Poison seems like the most obvious choice but I want to watch him suffer the way he watched you suffer and the way he made you suffer," he suggested evilly.

"I know it sounds hostile but he deserves his death."

"He deserved his death a long time ago," she said

"Do you place curses on people?" asked Dean

Melissa let out a small chuckle.

"No we don't place curses on people not truly anyway, many pretend to curse people. It's another one of our tricks. We place a curse on someone and then have them come to us to pay us to have it removed. It's another way we earn money. Much like fortune telling," she said.

"And pick pocketing, we trick people it's what we do but we aren't terrible people well not all of us. We want to make a living and make money like everyone else."

"I understand," said Dean.

"What is with all the jewelry you wear?"

"Jewelry is the symbol of our wealth and prosperity. It is safer to wear gold jewelry than to carry gold with us," she said.

"I never would have thought," said Dean as he rubbed the stubble on his chin.

"I learn something new every day. Would this work with Bohemas, bribing him with money?"

"My papa is a greedy man, he sold his daughter for gold," said Melissa.

"I believe he would be gracious to accept coin and gold from Roman because I am bearing his child and in our culture a baby is a good omen. It's a celebrated tradition because it means that our bloodline is being extended that's a good thing."

"Are we supposed to just appear on his doorstep with you increasing, offering him gold for your child?"

"I'm not sure," said Melissa looking at Roman who seemed to be deep in thought.

"We need to do this slowly," said Roman.

"We can't storm into his home and kill him. We need to plan this out slowly. Bohemas may be greedy but he is not an ignorant man. If we appear on his doorstep together he may believe that something is wrong and feel that maybe we're there for another reason than to offer him gold. Offering him gold would be the best way but the wrong way to go about this. He sold Melissa to me, he's not expecting us to return. Returning home to him will make him suspicious. Does your father tell fortunes?"

"We don't necessarily tell the future, we trick people into paying us to tell them their future," she whispered so on one could hear her.

"But you're not wrong my father is not a stupid man. He knows more than people believe, if we were to show up together to offer him gold when it was not part of the plan he will become suspicious of our actions. It might be better if I show up on his door step alone, telling him that you and I could not work out. I will tell him I need a place to stay."

"Alone?" asked Roman his eyes growing bigger.

"You want me to allow you into that house alone? After everything he has done to you, you want me to allow you to see this man alone."

"It's the only way," said Melissa.

"Now listen to me," she said.

"I know you're worried and you're scared but I will be okay," she promised.

"How do I know you'll be okay?" he asked.

"He had you raped and taken advantage of this is the same man that sold you to pay off his debts and you don't want me to worry? I'm sorry Melissa I cannot allow you in that house by yourself."

"Roman, you're a non-gypsy he is not going to let you in the house at all. You're considered unclean."

"I am not unclean," he said.

"I know, Baby," she said rubbing the beard he was growing on his face.

"Gypsies have a strong belief in hygiene and taking care of oneself. Non-gypsies are considered unclean because you don't have the same hygiene habits we do, my father will never allow you into the house. Everything is going to be okay."

"I'm not comfortable with this," he announced.

"Your papa is not a man that I trust. If he could sell you before he could sell you again and remember he sold you to a non-gypsy to marry."

"He is greedy," she said.

"I can take care of myself, you have trained me well."

"I have not begun to train you," he said.

"How could I have possibly trained you well?"

"I have watched you, I have observed you with your sword and your dagger. Trust me that I know how to defend myself and I learned to kill from you."

Roman wanted to test her, he hadn't had formal training with his wife to see if she knew how to handle a dagger and a sword but he had been showing her some ways to use the dagger and the sword.

"All right, where's the best place to take out an enemy with a dagger?"

"The heart or the lower back if you need to take them out from behind or in the abdomen, it brings a death of suffering," she said with a proud smile.

"And with a sword the same thing."

"Very good," he said with a proud smile.

"You have been watching me."

"And," she said with a soft smile as she bent over on his lap and reached for her black boot.

"I ALWAYS carry a dagger with me," she said showing him the dagger she pulled from her boot.

"I believe I love you more each day," he said with a smile before he kissed her lips softly.

"I've taught you well."

"I had to learn from the best," she said with a smile before she kissed his lips softly.

"You're stuck with me now."

"I would rather be stuck with you for a lifetime than have to live without you for a lifetime," he said with a smile before they shared a soft, passionate kiss.

"All right," said Dean.

"That's enough, break it up."

"No need to be jealous," said Roman with a smile as Melissa put her dagger back into her boot.

"So what's your plan, Love?"

"I'll make my papa believe that you and I had a bad fight, that you and I are no longer married that I am home to live with him. He would be gracious for that so he could sell me off again but after he goes to sleep or after he drinks to oblivion I can sneak you in, have you do what you need to do and we'll watch him suffer."

"I like the idea," he said.

"Maybe you should kill him and then I'll burn down the house, then we can make our way back home and live the life we deserve to have. I want to make you happy, Melissa, you have never experienced real happiness in your life. I want to give you happiness," he said.

"I just want Bohemas to be taken care of."

"We can do it however you wish but Roman you do make me happy. I have never been happier than I am with you," she said.

"I want you to be happy."

"With everything you have given me, Love, I am happy," he said with a soft smile as he placed his hand on her stomach.

He moved his hand slightly and pulled it away in alarm.

"What was that?" he asked.

"I think you felt the baby move," she said with a smile.

"That was our baby?" he asked.

"Yes," she responded.

"It is an active little creature we made," she said.

"It is always moving and kicking. I think it likes you."

"I think I like it too," he said with a smile as he placed his hand back on her stomach.

His heart filled with joy and a smile came across his face as he felt the little movements of their unborn child, their son or their daughter. It was one of the most beautiful things he had ever felt in life.