Immortal Enemies by Jessie Lane

Author:Jessie Lane [Lane, Jessie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Whiskey Girls Publishing
Published: 2019-08-25T18:30:00+00:00

Eight

“I offended you? Tell me, what’s it like to be so weak that mere words can harm you?”

Ødger’s face was mottled red with fury, and the vein in his head was pulsing. I did not care. The Jarl’s son could throw his temper around all he liked, acting more like a small child than a grown man. I was no longer going to tolerate it.

I had been putting up with his threats, beatings, and bullying for years. I was a man of twenty-one years now. I would put up with it no more.

We stood in the open on the beach where all the men were practicing with their weapons. Winter was on its way out. The snow melting on the ground, spring would be upon us soon. It was time to get battle ready for the next raiding trip.

Which was exactly what we had been doing when my father paired me with Ødger and told us to fight. It was a common understanding between us that we were not to draw blood or grievously injure our training partner. Had that stopped Ødger from slicing open my arm?

No.

The little shit of a goat.

He had been smug about it, too, until I had called him out loud enough for everyone to hear. Now he wanted to act as if I had somehow tarnished his reputation or honor.

He had neither.

The village put up with him either because he was the Jarl’s son—or because they feared him.

I had never feared him, and my patience for stomaching his presence at all because of his position had just come to an end.

As the men on the beach started to surround us in curiosity, Ødger attempted to glare me down. Seeing that was not going to work, he finally gathered up the balls to say something. “Watch how you speak to me, Arne Eriksson, or the next cut I give you will run from your groin to your throat.”

Snorting, I wiped the blood from my bleeding arm with my free hand and flicked it at him in challenge. “I would like to see you try. You act as if you are so tough, when in reality we all know if we lifted your tunic, we would find a woman’s hole instead of a man’s cock.”

I could see the very moment his control snapped blazing in his eyes, and I knew he was going to attack me.

Lifting his sword high, Ødger screamed in rage and ran toward me. He was like an angry bull charging. All strength and no finesse. He had yet to best me in training, and he never would.

Raising my own sword, I prepared to defend myself.

I was denied the chance.

The Jarl’s voice rang out through the air as sharp and loud as Thor’s thunder. “Stop!”

Ødger never slowed at his father’s request and instead kept barreling at me.

Jarl Birger shouted again. His voice was almost as murderous as the look in his son’s eyes. “I said stop!”

Dropping my sword so the Jarl could see I was complying with his order, I watched as Ødger closed the remaining fifteen feet between us.

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