Savage: A Rough Romance by Sara Fields

Author:Sara Fields [Fields, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stormy Night Publications
Published: 2020-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Freya

I didn’t know what I’d done to piss off the gods. Maybe Zymos was displeased with me and I hadn’t been prepared enough for battle, but holy spirits, was I not prepared to wake up to this kind of pain.

Fuck. Everything hurt. From the tips of my fingers to the ends of my toes, my entire body ached. My shoulder throbbed hard enough to make me cry out quietly, but that all paled to the pulsing headache that pierced at my skull, again and again like I was being stabbed with a knife. My tongue tasted of cotton and I groaned, feeling utterly miserable to be alive. Even after battle, I’d never woken up in pain like this. This was something else altogether.

“Shhhh. Don’t rush to move, my sweet omega,” a voice murmured in the distance and I furrowed my brow, trying to figure out where and who it was. The sound was hazy, and my head felt so foggy. For a long moment, I struggled to open my eyes and when I finally did, the world looked so blurry that I just closed them again, not wanting any of this to be real.

“It hurts,” I moaned.

“I know, Freya. But you’re alive. Praise be the fates,” that same male voice replied. It seemed familiar and for some reason, the sound of it comforted me. A strong hand curled around the back of my neck and lifted my head. A rim was placed against my mouth and the feeling of cold liquid edged against my lips.

“Drink. You need water,” he guided.

I obeyed, drinking down everything in that glass. When all the water was gone, I sighed in relief and my head pulsed just a little less.

“Good girl,” he murmured.

A warm thrill tingled down into my heart and I pressed the side of my head against the strength of that palm. Finally, when I was ready, I opened my eyes and looked up to see the man that I was to spend the rest of my life with.

“Aric,” I breathed softly.

“You remember me,” he replied in relief. “Thranar hit your head so hard that I was worried you may have lost your memory.”

I lifted my arm and groaned at the stiffness in my shoulder.

“He dislocated your sword arm too. I put it back into place,” Aric explained gently.

“Bastard. I would have kicked his ass if he didn’t,” I scoffed.

“I’m sure that you would have,” he replied with an amused chuckle.

His hand holding my head moved to cup around the side of my face. His touch was soothing, and it made me feel safe, even though I was so hurt.

“How long have I been out?” I asked.

“Five days,” he answered. I could pick up on several different emotions hidden beneath his words, his sadness, his worry, and his fear. There was something else though. There was also love. I swallowed, remembering that I bore his mark on my neck, but I had yet to mark him in the same way.

Tenderly, he pressed a thumb to the side of my head, and I winced.

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