“I am Eli and I don’t know what more explanation you’d want. Bishop isn’t common of a name in England and isn’t it odd that Eli is just a shortened version of Elissa?” She asked with a smirk. Elissa raised an eyebrow when he claimed to already be the greatest pirate alive, obviously not believing him. “Yes, I’m sure you are, that’s why you had to kidnap the daughter of your enemy to get your ship back and couldn’t just take it back on your own.” She gave a small laugh, but it faded with his last point about them drinking together. “I’ve shared a drink with enemies, so I can’t say that having a drink together counts for something. I will acknowledge that with you I at least don’t have to question if my drink if poisoned or not.”

Elissa pulled her knees up to her chin and rested it on them, wrapping her arms around her legs. “Yesterday was my birthday, that’s why we were having the party. Well, it was sort of a birthday party and an engagement party.” She answered. “Not much of a party really, I hardly knew anyone there aside from my fiancé and his father. My own father wasn’t even there, he’s off somewhere on business. I think it was India this time.” She didn’t look at Joseph when she spoke, her gaze was far off and forlorn. One would think that she’d be used to her father being gone from her life after all these years, but she wasn’t. She still wanted him around, wanted his approval, wanted his love. 

Elissa brought her attention back to Joseph with a smile. He was still as handsome, if not more so, than she had remembered from when they were younger. While she knew their lives had taken separate paths and another had probably already come into his life, she still couldn’t help but be smitten with him. He’d always had her heart. “Why did you leave?” The question was asked before she realized it. “You didn’t even say goodbye.” There was hurt in her voice. It was the one thing she resented him for, leaving without telling her goodbye.