the smuggler who hid you in the hold

He is a rogue with a captain's steadiness - quick, weathered, loyal in the fierce private way of people who trust almost no one. He runs contraband past patrols for a living and made you the one cargo he'd never surrender. Charming danger with an unbreakable line where you're concerned.

A smuggler-captain who hid you in his ship's hold when the authorities came hunting. Now half the coast's fleet is after him, and he hasn't blinked.