Heart of the Viking Queen: The Souls Within Us Book One by Nicola Ren

Author:Nicola Ren [Ren, Nicola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter eighteen

Jotunn

“What the fuck could be so important that you had to take me away from my queen?!” I whisper-yelled to Njal as we strode through the singular corridor of my keep towards the back of it. I knew what laid back here, but the room wasn’t currently in use. Only one thing—one person—could be worth my time to pull me away from my wife, and if it was him, then this might actually be important.

I cursed under my breath. “Is this where you tell me we finally recovered someone?”

Njal only nodded in response, keeping his expression blank and quickening his steps.

At the bend of the corridor, where no other doors existed this far for guests, we continued to the heavy wooden door with an iron lock across its latch. Njal unlocked it swiftly and pulled it open with little struggle, unveiling its lone occupant currently chained to a chair with a cloth gag stuffed in his mouth. The room held a dank, dusty smell from lack of use, but that would certainly change tonight, if my racing suspicions were correct. It wasn’t the man I’d hoped to see, but by the looks of the sigil on his tunic peeking out from beneath his vest, it was an extension of him.

Our footsteps slamming against the wood floor roused our prisoner, his head springing up and his attention focused on us. He struggled against his chains while muffled words became trapped against his gag. I imagined they probably weren’t nice words as his face was screwed up with anger, reddening around his cheeks and a scowl fixed on his brow.

“How’d you find him?” I asked Njal as we stopped a few feet from the persistent prick.

“Actually, he found us.” Njal’s voice was filled with suspicion, but I was intrigued.

“Is that so?” I clapped my hands together. I knew what this meant—He had returned my message with his own personal messenger.

“Has he said anything yet?” I looked back at Njal.

Njal’s lips thinned. “No. He refused to relay it to anyone else besides you. In fact, he had a few pretty daggers hidden on him that I think were going to be used to deliver the message.” Njal’s voice was edged with anger.

“So a mercenary and messenger in one? I must be awful special to deserve both. You agree, Njal?” I could only imagine this meant my enemy wasn’t agreeing to the terms I set in my correspondence to him. But I wasn’t deterred nor intimidated by the puny mass in front of me.

Njal only grunted in response, but I wanted to have my fun with this. If my enemy thought I was enough of a threat to have sent a mercenary for me, then he must be a bit desperate to end me before I could stir up trouble for him.

Pinching the gag, I yanked it from the man’s face, quickly easing back before he could bite me.

“Don’t be that way you feral mut. What message do you have for me? Did your keeper receive my gift?”

The man bared his teeth.

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