Wooing the Devil (The Noble Norsemen Book 3) by Virginie Marconato

Author:Virginie Marconato [Marconato, Virginie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oliver Heber Books
Published: 2024-04-23T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

When he left the smithy’s workshop the next morning after a night spent on the hard, dusty floor, Rune’s mind was made up. Magnus was a good man, who did not deserve to be hurt and Edith was only going to make him the laughing stock of the village.

On the way to the forge the day before she had once again placed herself in his path, claiming she needed help straightening one of her pigpen posts. Rune had gone along with the pretense and hammered it back into place with a few well-judged blows, ignoring the way she’d licked her lips when she’d offered him a drink afterward. He had, however, asked her if she didn’t know anyone else who could help her with such tasks. Simpering, she had replied that only a few men were capable of delivering the good pounding she wanted.

He had left without comment.

Once at the forge he had asked Magnus if Edith had accepted his offer of marriage. After all, if she had refused to become his wife then she was free to bed all the men that took her fancy. But the smithy had winked and said she had told him only the other night as they lay in bed that she was thinking of accepting his offer.

“You might well get to attend our wedding before you leave, my friend.”

That had been enough to convince Rune.

He would expose Edith’s behavior and prevent the smithy from making a colossal mistake.

The most efficient way to accomplish this was to lure the woman into the forge and allow Magnus to walk in on them as he finally allowed her to pounce on him. That would do the trick. If he merely warned Magnus, his friend might choose to give Edith the benefit of the doubt, or even think Rune was trying to keep the woman for himself. No, the blacksmith had to see with his own eyes how his intended wife behaved when he was not looking. If by an extraordinary stroke of luck he misunderstood the situation and thought he was taking advantage of her, then Rune would ask Wolf to relay their conversation of the other day. But he was confident it wouldn’t come to that. One look at Edith and everything would be clear.

It struck him that people might have drawn comparisons between the widow and Eowyn and the way they chose to indulge their senses.

Except… In his mind the two women were nothing like one another. In the same way that one was fair and one was dark, their characters were complete opposites. Eowyn was not openly brazen, she was innately sensual, which was not the same at all. She didn’t pounce on unsuspected, unwilling men, she lured in the ones who were already entranced with her. She was honest in what she wanted and she didn’t go around whispering that her fence posts needed a good hammering or accidentally falling to her knees in front of strangers. And, most significantly of all, she was not going around seducing men while she was betrothed to another.

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