Defiant In The Viking's Bed (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
However, the old servant was stoical. ‘If your uncle knew about my part in this matter I’d already be hanging alongside Ari,’ she said. ‘I pray you are right. I’m sorry to have put you at risk.’ ‘Such baseness should be beneath a man of your uncle’s standing.’ ‘He enjoyed it,’ said Astrid. ‘Just as he will enjoy seeing me married to Gulbrand.’ ‘Is it certain?’ ‘Most certain. I dread it, but I have no choice now. If I defy him in any way Leif will pay for it.’ Tears pricked behind her eyelids. ‘I saw his face when I said those things, Dalla. It was like a knife in my heart.’ ‘You did what you had to. Jarl Einar would not have hesitated to carry out his threat otherwise, and if not him, Hakke.’ ‘I know, but it sickened me all the same.’ ‘They sicken me,’ replied Dalla. ‘If Leif does not escape soon I fear he will never do so, but I have no idea how to achieve it. He is under guard by day and chained at night.
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