It was almost dusk when Andrea woke up.

She slowly opened her eyes and quite confused her surroundings, she's familiar with the ceilings, she knew that it was Xander's cabin, buy why is she at his cabin?

The last thing she remembered was when the pirates use her as a hostage. What happened next seems blurred in her memory.

It was when she was to stand that she realized she's not wearing her any clothes on.

"D-did Xander do something to me? But I didn't feel anything difference." She says to herself while checking herself if there's a changes. when she's relieved to know that nothing happened to her and Xander, she use the blanket to cover herself to stand up and to look for her clothes.

It was when she was about to get down from the bunk when she caught Xander's eyes who's sitting in the corner glaring at her. If staring can kill a person she might be dead by now, the way Xander looked at her, it was like a death glare!

"Looking for these?" Xander asked while showing her clothes.

"Xander! I mean C-Captain, I…" Andrea seem lost her words. She knew that Xander is beyond angry now the way he looked at her and making excuses will make him even more mad.

She knows that she has to tell him the truth, but she's afraid that he wouldn't help her and send her packing out of the ship on the next port instead.

So even if she needs to beg she'll do it as long as she'll stay in the ship.

"Anything you want to say? Make sure that whatever you want to say will help you." Xander says after looking at her as if he's memorizing her body and face.

"I-I don't have any excuses, just like what I told you before I joined your ship, I was hiding from my relatives that's why I need to disguise!" Andrea says, it was the truth but she can't tell who her relatives is.

"And may I know who are these relatives whose treating you like a slave?" Xander asked lazily.

"I-I can't tell…"

"Look, I don't really care whose your family, you makes us a fool thinking that you're really a boy!" To be honest Xander already have a hint that she was a girl, he's only waiting for her to confide in him. He has given her so many chance but she still didn't trust him.

And one thing he's really angry is that Paul knows it and they both keep it from him. One is his bestfriend and his second-man incomand and the other one is the little who he picked up and helped before!

She swallowed with difficulty, her throat suddenly parched. She doesn't know what to say or how tp convince him to let her stay. Did Paul betray her? No, that was impossible she knew that Paul will never do that to her. It was her own fault for underestimating the situation with the pirates. She thought ahe can stall time, but it seems that time is also against her.

"So are going to confess or you want me to let the whole crew knows that there's a beautyful siren here?" Xamder says without showing any emotions.

Andrea feels horribly, she knew whay would happen to her if the finds out her real gender. She remembered last time while they're on the port, Xander finds out that one of the crew brought a whore into the ship, he dragged girl poor girl and the crew on the deck and punished them.

"Everyone of you knows that I don't care you whoring whenever we are on the port but never, never bring a whore up the ship!" His voice is like a thunder that roar into the night.

The received a 50 whips while the whore was pass through whoever crew wants to screw her. It was horrible, she almost vomited for watching how wild the sailors are. And she wanted to be mad at Xander for doing it, but tgen rules is a rules. And now she doesn't know what to do!

Even Paul will be the target if she'll seek help from him, it's her own problem she must solve it alone.

Resigning herself to her fate, she looked up at Xander, who is sitting at the far corner of the cabin, his eyes narrowed at her while anticipating what she'll gonna do next.

"I-I promise to do anything, just please keep it a secret and please, please let me stay here for few more month!" She pleaded.

"Is that what you said to Paul to keep your secret?" Andrea was shocked to hear that Xander knows that Paul knew her secret.

"I- We didn't do anything like what you're thinking!"

"Do tell me what am I thinking?" He's toying with her but she can't retaliate, her fate was in his hand now!

She didn't answer instead she curled her fist onto the blanket she's using to cover her naked body.

Gritting her teeth, Andrea fumed with rage. How dare him remain so cool, so unemotional when he's toying at her like this?

Once again she looked at him who's waiting for her to say something.

"I have nothing to offer except myself. I will come to your bed willingly and remain as long as you'll let me stay here and conceal my gender!"

Andrea's wild proposal left Xander nonplussed. After several moments, he asked curiously, "Are you bribing me?"

When Andrea nod as an answer he once again look at her. "Are you saying that you want to be my whore, if I can keep your litlle secret?" He asked her, while taunting her.

A slight mocking smile curving his mouth, he moved away from the corner where he's sitting and walked slowly but suddenly stopped when he's in the middle of the cabin.

"Come here. And drop that blanket!" Xander teased her.

She was hesitant to do it first but she knows that she doesn't have a choice but to abide into his demand.

She slowly drop the blanket while her eyes were glued to the bed.

"Nervous m'dear? Don't worry, I'll be gentle with you, that's if you are maiden as what you're claiming!" He says cooly but to Andrea it was like a knife cutting her own moral!

"I'm telling the truth, and I would be silly to attempy to deceive you about something that can be prove easily. Paul and I are just friend!" She defended herself.

"There's only ine way to find out, isn't there?" Andrea just nodded as agreeing to his statement.

When she was totally exposed at him like a newborn babe, Xander eyes were roaming at her body. For a moment he stood beside her and looked down into her face, his eyes gliding lightly over her features-eyes and her inviting mouth. His eyes lingered for a moment on her half-parted mouth, and then they slid down to the swell of her breasts, as if bewitched by the beauty in front of him while looking at the rise and fall of her bossom while breathing heavily.

Andrea had never been so conscious of her body, but then she had never been naked in front of any man, and more importantly, she had never been the object of that kind of lusty glare, for she has never been exposed just like now.

When he pulled her up into his arm, Xander can feel her lacked of response, it is as if she was not there and she's into a trance.

Andrea stood naked and unmoving before him, her slender body bathed into the moonlit that is peeking into the glass window of Xanders cabin. Gazing at her slim body, the breast with a soft coral nipples, the narrow ribcage resting above a slender waist, the flatness of her stomach and the dark triangle between her long legs. Xander's breath caught in his throat, his desire erupted like a blazing volcano.

Sweeping her into his arms he moved into the middle of his bunk bed and he lay her there, her hair spilling out like cloak of fire around her shoulders. He leaned over and leisurely, in ispite of the urgency that's driving him crazy. He kissed her, but to his dismay there's no response from her.

"Kiss me back, Drew! Should I know yout real name by now? But to be honest, it'll be difficult to forget the Drew I know, so I guessed I just keep calling you Drew!" He demanded.

"H-how can I, when I don't know what I'm supposed to do?" She answered shyly.

Xander sigh heavily before he hold her chin up making their eyes meet. " Look at me, Drew! When I'm kissing you, I want to know that I'm kissing a woman not a stiff lipped spinster!" After saying those words, he crushed her mouth witg his forcing her lips to open. Plundering and searching her mouth, holding her chin firmly allowing her no respite from his hungry assault.

Andrea, was helpless against a sudden urge of frightening desire, shaken by the naked urgency of his mouth. Her lips became soft and responsive under his. Feeling her surrender, Xander released his hold on her chin, his fingers gently caressing her jawline and neck before his hand slipped down her shoulders and spine, leaving a tingle of awalening awareness in its wake.

Andrea felt as if one possessed, as if she's another creature, a hot-blooded, sensual animal had entered her body. Her arms is like having their own mind when it reaches Xander and embraces him while he' busy touching here and there, exploring her body as if it's a vast of land that holds a teasure.

Her hands was commanded by her own desire and need, she caressed the dark head and then daringly slid down to explore his long, lean body, the broad back with it's ridges and the arms with a thick muscles.

Xander's hand were like tongues of fire as they skimmed over her, his mouth no longer plundering, yet still hungry and demanding as it wooed her into another level of desire.