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Today’s excerpt skips a little ahead of last week’s. Erik has just asked to marry Bera, and she is not exactly pleased with the idea. Erik being Erik, he can’t imagine why. 🙂
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Northman’s Passion
by Kate Hill
Series: Northmen’s Brides
Format(s): Ebook
Heat Level: Spicy
Pairing(s): M/F
Genre/Themes: Historical, Viking
Length: Novel
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Excerpt:
“Father, please.” She threw herself on her knees at his feet, her head bowed. How could this witch swing from defiant to pathetic within the space of a heartbeat? Yet she seemed to know her father well. Her outburst had angered him, but by the expression on his face, this subservience appeased him. “Please. I’ll marry whomever you choose, just not him.”
“Why?” Erik demanded. “Why not me?”
Her frenzy ceased and she tilted her face up toward him. For a woman who was weeping piteously, she had not a tear in her eye, and those very eyes, dark and gleaming, shot flames in his direction.
“I said you were a spoiled child, and I was right. I withdraw my offer, and I pity the man burdened with you.” He turned his attention to the king. “My men and I will leave tonight.”
He no longer cared about having his tunic washed so he could travel clean in the morning. He’d rather live with the stink than remain in this house where he’d just been humiliated by a mere woman.
“Erik, she’s a foolish girl,” the king said. “There are other women. Far prettier ones. She’s my daughter, but I admit the truth.”
“I respect you as always,” Erik told him. “But I have paid tribute to you and there is no reason for us to impose upon your hospitality.”
The king looked ready to argue, but instead he nodded. “Do what you wish.”
Obviously he knew the anger of a rejected man. He was saving himself and his daughter as well as Erik further humiliation.
“Come again after winter,” the king said. “You will stay longer then.”
Erik nodded, shouted for his men, and left the longhouse without a glance at Bera.
I love a romance where there’s some tension!
Oh my, she sounds frightened about having to marry him, and he is very pissed off. It makes me wonder how it came to this.
Sounds like good riddance. Erik sounds like he needs to be taken down a peg or two when it comes to women.
There is more than meets the eyes here. What lies between the two to make her reject him?