Everything I Do: a Robin Hood romance (Rosa Fitzwalter Book 1) by M.C. Frank

Author:M.C. Frank [Frank, M.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2015-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

“Out of mere curiosity,” Robin said, and although he was panting slightly, his tone had an air of irony mingled with authority that even his own men found most intimidating, “will you state your business finally now, or wait till after I have plunged my sword through your throat?”

But Sir Hugh seemed not to listen. His eyes were on something behind Robin.

Rosa approached and as Robin turned to see what had drawn his opponent’s attention nearly slashed her clear with his sword. She stepped back at the last minute.

“Have I injured you?” Robin asked and then, abruptly, “Why are you here? Will?”

Will was rather reluctant to come forward just then, but he would have, only Rosa answered before Robin’s anger had a chance to become full-blown.

“Forgive me for interrupting you,” Rosa said although she did not seem the least bit sorry.

Sir Hugh continued to watch her, speechless, from the ground.

“My father told you I was dead, didn’t he?” Rosa told him calmly.

He got up abruptly, as if only just remembering he had been prostrate on the ground all this time. Robin, puzzled, made as if to detain him, but quickly he saw that the man was no longer dangerous. White as a sheet, he seemed more likely to faint than to do anything else.

“You -you are alive?” he croaked through dry lips.

“As you see,” Rosa replied.

“He said the outlaw had killed you,” Sir Hugh went on, his eyes void, as if he was in a trance. “He said he did it to spite him. I came to avenge your death. I came to tell him you had died for him once already, hadn’t that been enough?”

Robin started to ask a question, but Sir Hugh went on.

“I came to kill him,” he said as though Robin wasn’t standing right next to him. “I knew he was good with the sword and the bow, better than most men really, and I knew he had many on his side and I was only one, but I thought, surely I was angry and desperate enough to kill him in one swoop.”

He sat down abruptly. He closed his eyes and leaned back and Rosa thought he would collapse there and then, before Robin Hood and all his men. He seemed to pull himself together however, with a great effort, and lifted his eyes to hers once more.

The hatred was gone now.

His eyes were pleading, sad. They were bereft.

“You had already died for him once,” he repeated.

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