The Pirate:. Katherine Garbera

Not like a woman who was on the cusp of a huge change.

      Changing was something she thought she was past. For the longest time she’d looked in the mirror and saw a woman who had it all. A successful career in a growing practice. Two children who were on the honor roll at school and the stars of their respective sports teams. A husband…that was the one that had changed her, she thought.

      She’d always wanted to be a wife and mother and now she was an ex-wife and a mother and those words just didn’t sit right with her. No matter how she tried to change them in her head she’d been feeling like she was living someone else’s life. That this life wasn’t the one that she’d written for herself.

      And now she knew she was right. Because of the encounter—that raw sex—she’d had with Laz in the infirmary she knew that her life had changed. The change she’d been seeking was a new direction for her dreams.

      She wasn’t just a wife and mother anymore; she had feared without those labels she’d be nothing. Today she realized that she was still someone. In fact she was probably getting closer to her real self than she’d ever been before. Because she’d had her kids when she was young she’d never had a chance to figure out who the real Daphne Bennett was but in Laz’s arms she’d had a glimpse.