Can love really transform you into Better or worse?
{Worth binge reading}
Will Ivar, the ruthless handsome Viking fall in love with Nova, a French princess who is polar opposite to him? A historical fiction based on the year of 1000 AD, this story...
"If it isn't the grandson of my father's murder" I smile as I sit on the boulder while I chew some walnuts
Alfred stands there like a pale, skinny piece of shit he is..
"Now tell me, why did you want to see me?" I ask while I chew
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"Call off the war, even your step mother and brother have joined my force" Alfred says cooly
I scoff
"You waste my time alot, Alfred" I say as I look at him
"Ivar, war leads to death and destruction. As a ruler, I do not wish for that for my kingdom!" Fragile Alfred says
"Your grandfather King Ecgberht, knew what will lead to a war" I crack another walnut as I speak, "So don't stand here like a pussy and tell me that I shouldn't kill my father's muderers or skin them alive" I say
"You will lose your nation, brothers and your wife" Alfred warns
"Don't bring Nova into this" I say as I look at him as I shake my head, "Her name from your mouth is the last thing I want to hear"
Alfred smiles, "Oh Ivar, don't you know she despises you?"
"Despises me? For what?" I ask
"Freydis." Alfred mutters this single word and my heart stops
"Alfred, you wouldn't" I stand up
"She knows.." Alfred smiles animatedly
"You have crossed the line by bringing my wife into this!" I say as my blood gets warmer
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"Your wife has agreed to marry me" Alfred says as he crosses his arms
Disbelief and betrayal takes over my whole body as I cannot think of anything
My brain freezes and
My heart gets numb
"Hard to believe eh?" Alfred rejoices, "Your own family against you"
I breathe in a few deep breaths and recollect myself
"My private life has nothing to do with the war" I say as I smile, "Nova was mine, is mine and forever will be mine"
"That's not she said when we made love last night" Alfred says and I pounce onto him
I punch his neck and his throat
He retaliates and hits me in my eye
I fall back while he jumps on me to hit me
I overpower him and choke his neck as I bang his head onto the ground.
"KILL ME IVAR, AND SHE WILL HATE YOU MORE" Alfred speaks while choking
And I let go of his neck, immediately
Almost absentmindedly
I sit still on the ground and think
She hates me now
I have messed it all up again
She must be heartbroken.
Alfred coughs continuously as we both sit on the muddy ground
"Now you know this war is not about our nations, but about her" Alfred says with his teary eyes
I say nothing.
As I know it's true.
This war is no longer about us, now it's about her.
"Who ever wins, makes Nova his wife" Alfred says as he struggles to get back on his feet
"If that is what it takes then, King Alfred" I say as I rise up, "I can asssure you that the war will occur with a fortnight" I say as I retrieve my sword from the mud
After throwing up for the second time in a day, I crawl back in my bed
"Why does everyone I love, ends up breaking me?" I ask my self as I struggle to not cry
After a few minutes of crying I stop myself, "Crying never solved anything" I say as I throw a cushion onto the wall
"I need to think of a solution, I need to save me, from me" I chatter
And I think, connecting the dots in my brain
The wise words from Medusa and my father...
The legacy of my nation...
And the only support I have, my cousin Jezebel...
I think everything through
"Think Like a Queen" Jezebel's voice ring in my ears
As I lie awake brainstorming everything
Every minuscule thing.
"Where is she?" I hear Ivar's voice from outside
"In the room" A viking reply
I forcibly close my eyes as my heart and head starts fluttering and my skin becomes cold. My body twitches as I hear his footsteps getting closer to the room.
His voice, electric
His presence, magnetic
His love, Toxic
Why does he make me feel this way?
"Leave" His angry voice says to someone outside as my heart is ready to jump out of my skin
I feel him coming...
Oh God he is coming....
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