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By: Jianne Carlo | Other books by Jianne Carlo
Categories: Erotic Romance, Erotica Fiction, Historical
Word Count: 15,892
Heat Level: SIZZLING
Published By: Etopia Press
Jarl Torsten glimpses Ainslin of Durham, a recent widow with two sons, and immediately covets her for his wife. He outmaneuvers his rival, Ainslin’s neighbor Earl Sigrid, and receives the king’s blessing to marry her.
Ainslin fears Torsten's reaction when he discovers she’s a virgin. How will she explain her maidenhead and twin sons? Will Torsten cast Ainslin and the boys aside when he discovers the truth?
The Bear and the Bride - Viking Warriors 1
Jianne Carlo
(Published by: Etopia Press)
Jarl Torsten glimpses Ainslin of Durham, a recent widow with two sons, and immediately covets her for his wife. He outmaneuvers his rival, Ainslin’s neighbor Earl Sigrid, and receives the king’s blessing to marry her.
Ainslin fears Torsten's reaction when he discovers she’s a virgin. How wi MORE...
The Dragon Slayer - Viking Warriors 2
Jianne Carlo
(Published by: Etopia Press)
To save her sister, can Catriona slay the Dragon Slayer?
Ruard, the Viking warrior known as The Dragon Slayer, has no great hopes for the wife he’s to take as the lord of Dunnsmuir Castle, so long as she’s a biddable wife, with all her teeth, who doesn’t drool—a plain, humble woman. He has MORE...
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The Bear and the Bride
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His scent, leather, smoke, and a tang of pine, grew more intense as he strode to table. The aroma seemed to shroud her, until she could no longer discern if any hint of the lavender bath Martha had prepared lingered on her skin. The air in the room seemed to take on substance and weighted her shoulders. Ainslin stared at the knots in the pine table, aware he heard her quick inhales, and warmth blossomed in her cheeks.
I have seen eight and ten summers. I am no green maiden.
She prayed he didn't notice her flushed face, her trembling fingers, or the rapid fanning of her lashes.
"I like not this maiden's pretense of nerves." Using the toe of one boot, he moved the opposite chair back. "We are wed by the king's choice. The alliance is beneficial for both of us."
His arrogance made her teeth snap together. She welcomed the anger, but remained silent.
"What, no protest?"
"Pray continue," she said, her voice dulcet and soft. "I am anxious to know the advantages of becoming a married woman, with no control over my lands or my wealth. As a widow, I enjoyed control of both."
"Your sons need a guardian," he retorted, and reached to the bench along the wall for a clay pitcher and two glass goblets.
"My sons are in Cumbria," she stated. "With no protection save the king's decree."
He set a glass in front of her, poured wine into the green vessel, then filled his goblet, rested the jug on the table, and leaned back in the chair. His lips turned up at the corners, and the fine lines at the corners of his eyes deepened. For the first time, she met his stare full on, and her heart skipped a slew of thumps at the storm in his gray eyes.
* * *
"Nay, my lady," Torsten drawled, stretched his feet below the table, his boots sounding a soft thud in the momentary silence. "Your sons journey to Bear Hall, as we speak."
She gasped and opened her mouth, but didn't voice a word; instead, a rosy hue tinted her flesh, and her gaze dropped from his.
He hooded his eyes, surveying the rising and falling of breasts he dreamed of suckling. Saliva coated his mouth. The famed porcelain skin of her forehead, praised and lauded by the courts' skalds, furrowed, and her tongue flicked at one corner of her mouth.
Torsten yearned to roar his victory to all and sundry. He, the Northern Bear, had wrenched a reaction from Ainslin, the beauty whose frigid temperament 'twas said would freeze the fire-spewing mountains of Ísland.
"No thanks, my lady?"
"The king gave his permission?" She studied her lap.
"I need not his blessing," Torsten replied. "He gave you and yours over to me."
She looked up then, her green eyes flecked gold like a cat's, the brown lashes spiky with moisture, and he clenched his jaw, unwilling to surrender to the lure of her love for the twin sons she had borne another man.
"When?" she asked, setting her fingers on the table's edge.
"A sennight after you began your journey here, I sent my brother to fetch your sons to you." Torsten sipped his wine and watched her carefully, for Ainslin the Frigid had that iron control back in place.
"Why?" She lifted her chin, and the pride the women of the court so envied shone bright from eyes no longer threatened by the womanly weakness of tears.
"I would have something from you." Torsten cursed the coarseness in his voice.
She never flinched. "Pray continue, my lord."
"I would have you warm and willing in my bed."
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