Defiant in the Viking's Bed (2013)
“Instead he seemed content just to hold her. If he kissed her it was on the cheek or the forehead, thus avoiding the cut lip. That patient consideration did him no disservice in her eyes, or his gentleness either. It was a side to him that she found both unexpected and compelling. In so many ways he was a paradox, and yet the warlord and the lover were indisputably the same man. Except, she reflected sadly, that he didn’t love her and never had; he’d always been honest about that. A degree of co...nsideration was the best she could hope for from him.
His present mood encouraged her to think she might broach a subject that had been much on her mind; the matter of what he meant to do with her in the end. In all the time they’d been together Leif had never done her physical injury or permitted anyone else to either. That being so, might he not let her go to Ragnhild rather than sending her back to her uncle which would mean almost certain death? Having taken his pleasure, would he be prepared to show her that much mercy?MoreLess
His present mood encouraged her to think she might broach a subject that had been much on her mind; the matter of what he meant to do with her in the end. In all the time they’d been together Leif had never done her physical injury or permitted anyone else to either. That being so, might he not let her go to Ragnhild rather than sending her back to her uncle which would mean almost certain death? Having taken his pleasure, would he be prepared to show her that much mercy?MoreLess
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