Lord of Hawkfell Island by Catherine Coulter
Author:Catherine Coulter [Coulter, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Romance, Love Stories, Man-Woman Relationships, Historical, Historical Fiction, Ireland, History, Medieval, Vikings, Europe; Northern, Middle Ages, Tenth Century, Women Hostages, Man-Woman Relationships - Europe; Northern
ISBN: 9780515112306
Google: Sm1BkoWmhdgC
Amazon: 0515112305
Publisher: Jove
Published: 1993-11-01T07:00:00+00:00
18
IT WAS COLD and becoming colder still, the sky black with turbulent clouds, roiling and bursting against each other, harbinger of a violent storm to come. The wind was whipping the waves against the rocks below her, sending plumes of spray thirty feet upward only to crash downward again hard and fast, the sound of mad thunder. She felt the cold mist on her cheeks and stepped back from the cliff edge. She shivered and rubbed her arms but didn’t even think of returning to the longhouse and the pandemonium she’d left behind her.
She grinned suddenly, the picture of Sira shrieking like a witch, as leeks and mutton thick with gravy slithered off her head and face and onto her gown, ah, it was a vision that would probably stay with her until she died. Without a doubt, Mirana had made an enemy.
But Sira was already an enemy.
What would Rorik do?
She felt a shaft of pain slice through her belly. Her marriage of one day—surely a hopeful beginning—had collapsed into a pile of cold ashes.
She saw his pain again in her mind’s eye, unguarded in that instant, such pain she couldn’t comprehend. What would he do now? Would he send her away? Kill her?
“The little princess is still shrieking like a goat, with Rorik’s mother trying to calm her. There is laughter, but it is muffled behind hands. Kerzog holds no respect for her plight. He is trying to lick the gravy from her neck and face.”
Mirana turned to smile at Entti. “Kerzog is an excellent dog. You shouldn’t have come out here, Entti, though I’m glad you’re here. You know, I am the stranger here, not any of them. I am the outsider. No one owes me loyalty; no one owes me anything.”
“Don’t be a fool, Mirana. You are the mistress of Hawkfell Island. Rorik owes you loyalty as do all the people here. He swore his loyalty to you before all the people. Were it only Sira, the women would not hesitate to openly show you their loyalty and affection. It is Rorik’s mother who holds them back. They respect her and don’t wish to hurt her. They don’t understand her hatred for you; they say she refused to let the pain fall away from her. She nurtured the pain, both she and Harald. Still, it doesn’t matter. You are the mistress here, none other, and soon his mother and father and that wretched Sira will be gone.”
“My being mistress here—I believe that is now in question.”
“Did Rorik really dump food on you?”
“Aye, I taunted him and he retaliated. Not on my head, but just on my lap. ’Tis better than striking someone, and I wanted to hit her, Entti, I wanted to hit her very much. But the leeks slogging down her face—it was a nice sight.”
Entti grinned. “Aye, it was.”
Mirana looked out to sea for a moment, then looked again at Entti, saying low, “Is Lord Rorik angry?”
Entti wrapped her cloak more closely around her. It was, actually, naught more than a ragged piece of wool, and Mirana frowned at it.
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