Vengeance (The Montbryce Legacy Anniversary Edition Book 4) by Anna Markland

Author:Anna Markland [Markland, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-27T23:00:00+00:00

Cat And Mouse

Rhoni’s heart stopped when Ronan staggered under the blow from his assailant’s club. She hadn’t warned him in time. She kicked hard at the filthy men surrounding her, urging the terrified Fortissima to flee, but couldn’t hold them off. They dragged her to the ground, face down. Her horse galloped away.

One of the men pressed his knee into her back, stroking his hand over her derrière. Fear and outrage surged through her. Dirt clogged her nostrils. She was going to be sick. “Not so high and mighty now, Norman bitch, in your fancy leather riding breeches.”

She recognized the harsh tones of the old West Saxon dialect. These were desperate men who may have lived outside the law for thirty years. They were in unfamiliar territory, evidently fleeing north into her father’s earldom.

Her tormentor hauled her up, his grip digging into the flesh of her arm. His bulbous nose was inches from hers. The reek of decay emanating from his almost toothless mouth brought more bile surging up her throat. She gagged against his ragged tunic, swooning as the fever of terror took hold. He held her up with one hand, the other wiping off the front of his wretched clothes.

Another man pawed at her breast. “Goin’ to share, I hope, Daegal.”

Her frog-eyed captor shoved him away. “Aye, but I’ll take her first, Eldwyn. You can have her after me. But not here. We’ve lost too many and the Normans are gaining ground.”

A flicker of hope licked at Rhoni’s heart. Perhaps all was not lost. Daegal slung her over his shoulder like a sack of grain and loped into the trees. Eldwyn and the other man followed, leaving their remaining compatriots to deal with the Normans.

Unable to breath as a bony shoulder pounded into her belly, overwhelmed by the rank odor of the man’s body, Rhoni surrendered to hopelessness and fainted.

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