Viking Unchained by Sandra Hill

Author:Sandra Hill [Sandra Hill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Viking Series II, Time Travel
ISBN: 0425222950
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Amazon: 0425222950
Barnesnoble: 0425222950
Goodreads: 2471165
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2008-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

She saw dead people . . .

Lydia thought she was losing her mind.

Finn was gone, and she was in as much pain as she had been the first time she’d lost Dave. Which was insanity because Finn wasn’t Dave. She knew he wasn’t. So why was she running around like a chicken with its head cut off?

When she’d finished with her classes, she consulted with her manager over instructors to replace her for the rest of the day. In fact, she planned to take off the rest of the week. She had plenty of backup help, so a minivacation was no big deal to arrange.

When she went out to the lobby, she found Finn gone. That didn’t surprise her. But then she’d gone outside to see if he’d walked down to the water or around the neighborhood. No one had seen him. And the first inkling of alarm set in.

Two hours had passed since the end of her classes. She stood in the parking lot leaning against her car. He was gone, she just knew he was. As quickly and amazingly as he had entered her life, Finn had disappeared. The grief staggered her with pain.

But then, through the haze of her tears, she saw something.

Ambling toward her as if he had all the time in the world was . . . Dave.

“Oh, my God!” she moaned, two hands pressed against her heart. “Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God!” Her words were as much prayers of thanks as exclamations of shock.

His long legs were encased in jeans. He wore a Minnesota Vikings T-shirt. And his dark hair was cut in its usual high and tight. A small smile tugged at his lips as he got closer, causing the dimple to emerge.

Dimple!

Dave didn’t have a dimple.

Blinking away the tears, she saw now that it was not Dave after all, but Finn with a haircut. The disappointment was palpable. The pain was excruciating.

Running up to him, she began to pound him on the chest. “How could you? How could you?”

“What in bloody hell . . . ?” He dropped his bags to the ground and picked her up bodily by the waist, feet dangling off the ground. Being held tightly against him didn’t stop her; she pounded at his shoulders and head, sobbing the whole time. Somehow he managed to get her arms within his embrace so that now she was held tightly against him, feet still dangling. Against her ear, he was attempting to soothe her with shushing sounds and words of comfort, “Shhhh, sweetling. Do not fret. Shhhh.”

When her sobs finally subsided to sniffles, he set her feet back on the ground and practically dragged her to the car. Once inside, he turned to her, waiting for an explanation of what must seem bizarre behavior.

“I thought you were gone.”

“I did not realize how much time had passed. And you were that angry over my being late?”

She shook her head, dabbing at her eyes with a tissue. “I was upset .

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