Sherwood by S. E. Roberts

Author:S. E. Roberts
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction, adventure, action, young adult, teen, tales, robin hood, sherwood, s e roberts

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"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Harrison McBride shouted at his daughter as she leaned up against the door frame. He placed his hands on his hips as he stared at her.

"What am I doing? What are you doing?" Harlow asked, leaning back on the door post.

Harrison raised one hand to his forehead and rubbed his face. "Take off the hat. I want to speak with my daughter, not my son."

Harlow stood silent for a moment. "No. I can't," she shook her head, "I wont."

Harrison McBride shook his head at her defiance. "Why are you here? Don't you understand how dangerous it is here?!" He exclaimed, unknowing where to put his hands.

Harlow stayed quiet, looking at her arms folded across her chest.

Harrison sighed, exasperated. "Why, Harlow?"

She turned her eyes upward. She shrugged, biting the inside of her cheek. "There were a lot of reasons."

Harrison again sighed, "Like what? What could possibly make you want this?"

Harlow found her blood begin to boil in frustration. "You'd already been in one war. You shouldn't have had to do this again. How could Robin ask you to do this again?! That was the main reason. No one liked me in the village, anyway. They all wanted me to leave, but that would mean you would leave too, and they couldn't risk that. They would say things, talk about me. I was a failure to them. I had no life there."

"That's no reason to leave. You had another option!" Her father exclaimed.

"No, Dad! I had no other options! What would you possibly have done with me? Send me off to marry Enders?! He's here too! That was it! That was the last line for me in the social order." Harlow shouted at him, feeling her fists clench and unclench with anger. "Thank you for telling me that I'm engaged, by the way. How long have I been engaged? I had to figure that out on my first raid as Commander." Harlow said sarcastically, looking out the window as she leaned against the wall.

Harrison looked somewhat taken aback by the statement. He left the words hanging in the air.

Harlow knitted her eyebrows together as she looked to her side. "How could you do that? You planned to marry me off without my consent. I wont do it. I wont marry him." She said, looking to the side and letting her eyes fall to the floor.

Harlow shook her head and pushed herself off of the door post, feeling a strike of pain in her abdomen. She refused to show the pain. "What are you going to do then? Send me back home?"

Her father sighed. "No." He rubbed his eyes tiredly. It was the first time Harlow had noticed how tired he'd looked.

Harlow looked at him, an eyebrow raised and her eyes looking skeptical. "Why not?"

"There's no home to go back to." Harrison said, sitting down in a chair that had been pushed aside earlier. He raised his hands to his eyes and rubbed them again, slouching forward and propping his elbows up on his knees.

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