Hartley's Solace [The Swordsmen 3] (Siren Publishing Everlasting Classic ManLove) by Cara Adams

Author:Cara Adams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 2016-01-26T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Randall started inching toward his left as the noise grew ever louder. All the shaking of branches and turmoil seemed to be coming from his left. He looked hard in front of him and to his right, but there was no movement there, so he took a few more careful paces left.

Then it was too late. The boar launched itself down the trail as fast as it could run. Only a heartbeat behind it and slightly to its side was a sow almost as big as it was.

“Look out, Hartley!” he screamed as the sow barreled toward his lover.

The sow was as heavy as a man and the boar a lot heavier. Suddenly Randall didn’t give a fuck about catching the damn boar. All he wanted to do was get the fucking sow off Hartley before she crushed his ribs and killed him.

He hurtled across the rough undergrowth toward Hartley and the sow, accidently tripping on a piglet that screamed at him. They were supposed to catch the piglets, not kill them, but once again he didn’t care. All he could see was that damn sow on top of Hartley and Hartley’s arms up trying to pull it off him. If it broke too many of Hartley’s ribs the man he loved would die. No one could live if the bone pierced a lung. Randall would himself die without Hartley. He loved this man more than life itself. Hartley had come to mean everything to him, yet he’d never spoken words of love to him, something he needed to do. But not right now.

All around him was a riot of screaming, from the piglets, the sow, and the boar, shouts and yells from the swordsmen, and the crashing of bodies, both men and animals, through the thick grasses and bushes here. Randall deliberately blotted everything out of his mind except for Hartley. Hartley lay flat on his back with the sow over his body and his arms trying to push the animal’s snout up and off him.

Randall raised his battle ax, but Hartley and the sow were engaged into a bitter life-and-death struggle, rolling from side to side and thrashing around. Randall would be as likely to slice Hartley’s body as to connect with the damn pig. He turned his ax around and raised the back of the head of it to the head of the pig. When he was certain he would hit only the sow and not Hartley, he brought the heavy metal down on the back of the pig’s head, just above its neck. Then he grabbed its back legs and pulled it to one side, trying to get it off Hartley.

Both the damn sow and Hartley were still writhing and flailing all over the ground in their battle for supremacy, despite the harsh blow he’d given the animal. It was huge and heavy, probably weighing as much as Hartley and two-thirds his length. Randall was having no success pulling it off Hartley and he could smell blood which was a huge worry.

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