The Dark Angel by Le Veque Kathryn

Author:Le Veque, Kathryn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Medieval, Romance
Publisher: Kathryn Le Veque Novels, Inc.
Published: 2022-02-17T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

It took Julian about ten minutes to assess what was happening.

Along with Ashton and the three senior sergeants, one of whom had been part of the escort from Berwick, Julian assumed that the Scots had come to raid the vineyard and the gardens for stores.

His stores.

When he married Lista, all of this would become his, so already he was protective over it. Mostly, he was protective over Lista. These Scots bastards who had come down from the border, bypassed Northwood Castle, which was a massive castle along the River Tweed and quite accustomed to border raids, had come straight down to Felkington nestled in her little valley. They’d deliberately avoided Northwood and her enormous army.

That made Julian particularly angry.

Given that he had just been in that vineyard in the afternoon, he didn’t want the Scots ruining it or the gardens that had a variety of vegetables and flowers. It was all so tranquil and beautiful and to think about the Scots damaging that infuriated him. The Scots seemed to be focused on raiding anything contained within that ten-foot wall and weren’t particularly focused on the castle itself, which gave Julian time to form an army. Never one to simply stay idle while there was an attack going on around him, Julian took one hundred and fifty men with him and left the safety of the castle, leaving Ashton to seal it up behind him.

Out into the field he went.

When the Scots saw the Felkington army coming, they moved to meet them. But Julian noticed something particularly strange going on in the middle of the road that led to the gatehouse. There was a mounted knight, all by himself, fighting off a gang of Scots that were clearly trying to dismount him and steal his horse. Julian was mounted, of course, and charged towards the English knight who was ably keeping the Scots at bay, but once Julian joined the fight and cut off a couple of heads, the Scots fled in terror.

Julian and the other knight went after them.

They were swarming the garden and the vineyard. Since the gate was closed, Julian couldn’t get his horse through, but he pulled the animal alongside the wall and climbed over it. Fully armed, wearing armor that weighed more than a ten-year-old child, he began plowing through the Scots as they stole vegetables and ripped young trees out by the roots in order to steal what fruit they were bearing.

Julian wasn’t even trying to chase them away. He was out to kill them and the Scots realized that very early on. He had a massive sword, serrated on one side, that could slice through a man’s neck as easily as a hot knife through butter. When he started leaving headless bodies amidst the carrots and apples, the Scots couldn’t get back over the wall fast enough. Worse still was the other English knight who had followed him, a big knight who was beating men with crushing blows. He didn’t seem to be killing like Julian was, but he was definitely thrashing men as they tried to flee.

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