Viking Queen_A Reverse Harem Romance by Savannah Rose

Author:Savannah Rose [Rose, Savannah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-15T16:00:00+00:00

“You made it.”

Ysulte is still lying on her back, her breathing shallow but steady. Her eyes are closed, as if she’s diverting all her energy into words to welcome me, but she’s smiling.

“I made it back. It didn’t work.”

She says nothing. I guess she’s waiting for the outpouring of resentment and defeatism, but it doesn’t come. Instead I say it out loud - “I know what I need to do now.”

She smiles. She doesn’t need to say anything.

I take off my cloak and wad it into a pillow, which I place underneath her head. I rummage in her cloak and skirts until I’ve found a small canteen.

“You need water.”

“Thank you, my queen.” She takes a couple of sips and lies back again. I decide that I’m not going to use up any of her strength by making her ask me questions, and continue, thinking out loud, “I know now that the key to all this lies in the bond between me and my warriors. I cannot be without them and they cannot be without me. So, if I can get close to them, I know they’ll be loyal. That’s how Shar will be defeated.”

Ysulte says nothing, but there’s a smile flecking at the edge of her mouth again.

I suddenly realize. “That’s why you let me go back with Eirik that first time. You wanted me to get a taste of that feeling - of what it was like to have one of my Warriors at my side.”

“You sensed it,” she says in her cracked whisper. “You felt it in your heart. That feeling taught you more than I ever could.”

“So it was all on purpose? Even though you knew it wouldn’t work to try and talk to Shar?”

“We learn more from our failures than our successes, dróttning.”

I guess it’s true. From the first mission I got a taste of what it was like to have my Warriors with me. From the second I learned my own strength. From the third I learned how to use it, and realized what I need to do next.

So now the real work begins.

“I’m worried about leaving you, Ysulte,” I say. “You’re not strong.”

She opens one eye, as if that’s all she can do. “You know what the right thing to do is,” she says simply.

And it’s true.

I make her as comfortable as I can before I go. I walk down to the brook that bubbles at the bottom of the hill to fill her canteen with water. There’s a silent prayer on my lips and I just hope that an entity powerful enough can hear it. A cough from Ysulte is the only thing that breaks the silence. Instinctively I turn around, my eyes settling on her feeble body. Is it possible for someone to look so much worse mere minutes after you’ve seen them? It has to be the case, because even with seconds, Ysulte seems to be looking closer and closer to giving in.

Returning to her side, I rest her head on my cloak and tuck her own cloak around her.

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