The Beast Inside

by M E Wolf

  THE BEAST INSIDE

  Book 1 of The Immortals of Scar

  M.E. Wolf

  Table of Contents

  Title Page

  The Beast Inside (The Immortals of Scar, #1)

  THE BEAST INSIDE

  THE BEAST INSIDE | CHAPTER ONE

  CHAPTER TWO

  CHAPTER THREE

  CHAPTER FOUR

  CHAPTER FIVE

  CHAPTER SIX

  CHAPTER SEVEN

  CHAPTER EIGHT

  CHAPTER NINE

  CHAPTER TEN

  CHAPTER ELEVEN

  CHAPTER TWELVE

  CHAPTER THIRTEEN

  CHAPTER FOURTEEN

  CHAPTER FIFTEEN

  CHAPTER SIXTEEN

  CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

  CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

  CHAPTER NINETEEN

  CHAPTER TWENTY

  CHAPTER TWENTY ONE

  CHAPTER TWENTY TWO

  CHAPTER TWENTY THREE

  CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR

  CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE

  CHAPTER TWENTY SIX

  CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN

  CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT

  CHAPTER TWENTY NINE

  CHAPTER THIRTY

  CHAPTER THIRTY ONE

  CHAPTER THIRTY TWO

  CHAPTER THIRTY THREE

  CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR

  CHAPTER THIRTY FIVE

  CHAPTER THIRTY SIX

  CHAPTER THIRTY SEVEN

  CHAPTER THIRTY EIGHT

  CHAPTER THIRTY NINE

  CHAPTER FORTY

  CHAPTER FORTY ONE

  CHAPTER FORTY TWO

  CHAPTER FORTY THREE

  CHAPTER FORTY FOUR

  CHAPTER FORTY FIVE

  CHAPTER FORTY SIX

  CHAPTER FORTY SEVEN

  CHAPTER FORTY EIGHT

  CHAPTER FORTY NINE

  CHAPTER FIFTY

  CHAPTER FIFTY ONE

  CHAPTER FIFTY TWO

  CHAPTER FIFTY THREE

  CHAPTER FIFTY FOUR

  CHAPTER FIFTY FIVE

  CHAPTER FIFTY SIX

  CHAPTER FIFTY SEVEN

  CHAPTER FIFTY EIGHT

  CHAPTER FIFTY NINE

  CHAPTER SIXTY

  CHAPTER SIXTY ONE

  CHAPTER SIXTY TWO

  CHAPTER SIXTY THREE

  CHAPTER SIXTY FOUR

  CHAPTER SIXTY FIVE

  CHAPTER SIXTY SIX

  CHAPTER SIXTY SEVEN

  CHAPTER SIXTY EIGHT

  CHAPTER SIXTY NINE

  CHAPTER SEVENTY

  CHAPTER SEVENTY ONE

  CHAPTER SEVENTY TWO

  CHAPTER SEVENTY THREE

  CHAPTER SEVENTY FOUR

  CHAPTER SEVENTY FIVE

  CHAPTER SEVENTY SIX

  CHAPTER SEVENTY SEVEN

  EPILOGUE

  CHAPTER THIRTY SEVEN

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  THE BEAST INSIDE

  By Author: M.E. Wolf

  Cover by: George Arnold Hall

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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. The opinions of the characters within this work of fiction do not reflect the opinions of the author nor that of the publisher.

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  PUBLISHED 2019

  ISBN : 978-1-927695-96-8

  DEDICATION

  To my wife.

  PREFACE

  This book has seen many relaunches in its long life, as my first book ever. Rewrites tend to be organic in that every time you look at a book, you want to change something. Every quarter of every year I rethink a lot of the books because you can typically get a grasp of what is happening with the book.

  Old versions did have front matter and back matter at times, but for a while it had very little of that and only had the copyright notice and title information for the book. This particular book has had lot's of titles and got reworked a few times until the first book became two books. So, the physical books that you see out there are filled with plot holes and filling in the holes made two books out of the first one book.

  To keep costs down for the consumer instead of updating the physical books, which cost me lot's of money to make, only the digital books are up to date. I hope that you like this book as I spent time on the cover and title to really get it right this time. Yeah, I know this book has had a lot of covers in the past and a lot of titles too, but I think that I got it right this time.

  Many of the scenes in the book took a lot of research and some of them are just me writing about what I know. I have had many careers in my life, but writing has been around the longest and some did not take long before I did not want to do them. Mechanic was to be my career, but I did not like going home smelling like oil every night and when I worked at restaurants I did not like smelling like the food I cooked.

  You cannot walk around anonymous when you smell like your career and writing, I just landed in it after not receiving word from sending out 1,000 resumes for programming jobs.

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  THE BEAST INSIDE

  CHAPTER ONE

  “Our golden pirate rule is clear, Black Bart. The dead don’t have a share of the loot. Whoever is alive after boarding a ship gets a share in the loot.

  “When we all signed the contract to join the crew we all knew that we would get a burial at sea and that would be the end of it.

  “Now let’s shove these three former mates off and into the sea.” The pirate named Dirty Dan unceremoniously dragged each wrapped up crew member and tossed them overboard into the sea. They stayed at the surface for a moment and then disappeared below the waves and were gone.

  Their ship was listing heavily to one side. The crew members were trying to repair it as fast as they could, but the salt water was entering the ship very fast. Crew members quickly got some rectangular boards and replaced three boards in the outer hull that had been damaged by cannon balls from other ships.

  After that they sealed them with a heavy tar and grease. It would not hold forever, but those that did the repairs figured it would or should be good for a few months at the least based on previous work on the ship that they had done. The entire crew had to help in bailing the water out of the ship and after several hours of hard back breaking work they were d
one.

  Before their battle with the other ships they had four cannons on each side in working order. One cannon was lost in the fight. Once the water was bailed out and all of the repairs were complete the crew checked the two ships that they had captured. They took the cargo these ships were carrying, replacement parts from one and sunk the ship in the worst condition. A skeleton crew manned both of the remaining ships.

  BlackBart captained the captured ship and Dirty Dan captained the ship that they started with. Both ships were running plain black flags, a sort of nondescript pirate flag. Always on the sea the pirates attacked merchant ships, coast guard ships and other pirate ships.

  Even the simplest of wounds would cause death. While on the seas there was not always a way to prevent infection and some would die from a simple wound while others lived through horrendous wounds. These pirates were always on the seas and always in ship to ship battles, but only ever controlled up to five ships at a time.

  Many ships were sunk and many more were crippled so badly that the crew sunk them themselves. The life that they lived was very rough and was not for everyone. Supposedly there was a pirate island or cove where they rested from the seas, but no one really knew if that was true or not. On close inspection if one did not know where the hideout was they would not be able to see it. It was hidden by foliage and hard to get to or see its opening unless right on it. The draft of the ship had to be short enough to fit at the top without dragging on the bottom of the ship. Only these pirates knew of it and their treasure was also here.

  Most of us on the sea went shirtless and shoeless. We sported very dark tans and our skin almost looked like leather pulled a little too tight around an even tighter skeletal frame. My name is Black Bart and I did not like the fact that the next of kin rule was voted down so long ago and my brother was killed in the last ship to ship fight.

  After that first fight we had a few more and after weeks on the sea we ended up having a furlough in the cove. Women are always in the cove and they kind of live there all the time. Most of the time we stay out on the sea because of the women and girls being cranky and restless. It was worse when, like now, we came back with less than what we had when we left.

  With the new no next of kin rule the women got nothing when their man did not return from the sea. This time we had been gone for more than a month. My brother’s girl was sad to not see my brother return. She was just super angry when she found out that she would get nothing from the loot that he would have gotten not too long ago.

  Not getting a share of the loot will really be rough for her. After securing the fastening ropes to the dock I went to my cave and lay myself down to sleep. I did not want to be the one to tell my brother’s woman that he was not coming back. By morning all of my loot would be in my place. Right now it was time to rest on my nice warm furs.

  Later that night though my brother’s girl came and woke me up. I did not want to deal with this so I tried to send her out of my room. She would not go away and no matter what I did to her, she would not go.

  “I want you to tell me why I am not getting any of the loot. It has been a month and I have had to be cooped up in this cave only to find out from Dirty Dan that I will not be getting anything from the past month even though your brother only died last week.

  “On the sea I understand that you have to have rules, but the loot rules need to include the women that are left here. Recently we were raided here as well by other pirates that wanted this place. Some women lost their lives in that time, but like I some have lost their stores of food and other goods.

  “I have nothing and like others here have noticed I don’t have much clothes either. Just this night two of your crew made advances on me and both times they tore what I was wearing. I barely escaped with my skin. Naked and cold I plea for you to take me into your home.”

  I could see for the first time that she was right. Looking her up and down I was disgusted with how my body reacted to seeing my brother’s woman. To me she was still his girl and this did not make me feel right. It was sickening to go after my brother’s girl especially when she looked so lost and vulnerable right now. I was saving myself for another girl here that I did not see when I docked.

  A raid, there was a raid here. What were the losses? There was more to this girl that was my brother’s, almost as though things happened that forced her into situations that she had no control over. Tears in her eyes made me want to take her right now and to hell with my morals, but that is not me. I pray for us to be on the seas again and away from the troubles that these women have to face.

  It was better not to know of these troubles, or having to deal with the things that happened while we were gone. I will have to take her in, but not as my lover and I know that that is what she wants. More importantly I know what she needs. With a little slight of hand I pull out a bottle of rum and offer to share it with her.

  Once she passes out I carry her over to my furs and make sure she is warm before I lay beside her and fall asleep. A restless night beside a naked woman that wanted to wrap herself around me, is what I had. Why does this happen to me? It is just not right to be with the woman your brother was with, just not right. I cannot tell you how adamantly I do not like this. There is a woman here that I do want, but I am not sure of the situation as we came into the docks when it was getting dark.

  It is a dangerous thing to do, even for us that know how to direct our ships properly into the docks at night. The reason we do this at night is so that others do not see us coming into our port of call. Despite us being in a cove that is like a huge cave light from the morning sun still gets in here. I see it coming and it let's me see the bruises on my brother’s girl who is still holding onto me tightly.

  Impossible to pull away from her, without waking her up. When my eyes opened I saw Dirty Dan sitting in one of my chairs. After jumping into my pants I went over to him, his face was grim. I did not know why this was so, until he spoke. Venom was in his tone.

  “There are not that many women left here. Many were killed or taken when other pirates raided our stashes. That woman that you talked about having while we were on the sea, was raped and killed in the raid. The women that are left had to kill in order to stay intact.

  “Your brother’s old woman was the one that took charge while we were out and organized a way to chase off the other pirates and sink their ships. The other women said that the pirates that came here ate the dead. The girls left are not sure if any of the ships escaped, but most likely some probably did.” Dirty Dan tried to get a reading from Black Bart’s body language, but was not able to.

  “Any way to salvage any of the goods on those ships that were sunk?” Black Bart looked more aware of the girl next to him than he did when Dirty Dan had awoken him. Could it be the result of hearing about what had happened to the girl that he had had his eyes set on? Dirty Dan did not know and was not interested enough to find out.

  “We could always try as I am sure that we would need extra supplies for when the water freezes over and we are not able to head out to sea anymore until the thawing. There is another problem, however, and that is the fact that we don’t have enough women to go around.

  “Basically it is four men per one woman, so if you are not doing anything with the one that you have then you will have to share her with three others. We may have lost some men, but not as much as the amount of women we had lost. So we all have to share the women until there are more.” Dirty Dan did not feel the blade go in through his stomach and as his eyes rolled back in his head, he knew no more anyway.

  Black Bart picked his clothes clean of anything that he could use and stripped him naked of his clothes. Afterwards he dragged Dirty Dan’s body to the docks and threw him in the water. When he got back to the cave his brother’s woman was wearing Dirty Dan’s clothes and his sword. Black Bart had to admit that they looked better on her than they ever did on Dirty Dan, but she could have washed them first. Definitely said a lot about her, did it not? Was
she a pirate’s woman or a woman that was a pirate that happened to be with another pirate.

  “For your information I was never with your brother. We kept up a ruse that we were together so that the pirate men left me alone. In fact I have never been with anybody in the way that people think that I should be.

  “Seriously I wanted you, but you never gave me even a glance. You wanted the girl that everyone had and your brother was enough of a bad boy for the others to think that we were intimate.” Black Bart watched her as she adjusted Dirty Dan’s clothes and sword so that it was comfortable and in all the right places.

  The smile on her face said that she knew that he was watching and either liked the idea of his interest or was laughing about it on the inside. She was obviously not the type to flirt with someone that had seen her naked, and found it amusing that Black Bart paid attention to her while she was dressed but took no interest in her when she was naked.

  “Well you cost us a leader. If it is any consolation he was a bad leader and caused the women here, including me, to have no rights or even next of kin loot. Not sure if you will be the next leader as there has to be a vote, sure the women get a vote but since the numbers of men out way the numbers of women it may not go the way it should.” The girl was talking to me like an old friend.

  “If we were in the old country taking out an old leader would make me automatically the new leader, but we are not in the old country.” We were looking at each other and talking like friends and I am pretty sure that I want it to be more than that.

  What do you do when you see a girl naked and would it be awkward to just be friends? Probably would be, I do not know. “Today we will have divers out to recover whatever they can from the bottom of our harbour. Whatever we get will depend on how we survive the winter, but I think that we need a way to go out in the winter and procure stuff that we need. What do you women do when we are gone?” Black Bart did not expect her to answer as he was just trying to pass the time before the first light of morning hit the cove.