Redtail Rise [m] Sīkärr

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"så vil jeg ikke dø," nuzzling toward the hollow of her throat while palm roamed her swelling flank. ayovi, in the rounding of her gravid sides, had become even more fiercely desirable to skorpa, and he wasted no opportunity to show her.

but his wife was in a seeking mind, and so he put his own thoughts to listen. "jeg tæller fem år." there came a nudge of worry, for he had never considered his age before this moment. "en mor. en far."

he lodged his tongue in silence a second. "en bror." surely ayovi asked if he had built another settlehearth with another woman, and skorpa shook his head. the rogue-turned-mountainman might never know if he had left children scattered in villages, but he had not ever sought a hall nor one woman to fill it with warmth.

"jeg er vant til en hård gåtur, en blodig kamp og at sove under stjernerne," skorpa murmured. "dette, alt dette - det er alt sammen nyt for mig."

his eyes closing, forehead lowered to brush her own; "jeg er lykkelig. jeg ville ikke have det på nogen anden måde. jeg har fundet kærligheden."

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