Translator's note: I gave a thankful reply to all the signed Reviews personally. And in this chapter I will do to those that are not signed with a name or those that I can't reply individually. I will also leave a short comment to every review I had. And for everybody wanting Sookie getting desired from another man this was your chapter… Eric is JEALOUS…
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Chapter 12
It got worse the next day when I went to thank everyone who helped me to make my "daughter's" party a success. I saw Ivar and I spent some time chatting. We talked about Audr's party, about he thought I was a good dancer, about his mother and about their farm (apparently they are worried because they cannot afford to buy a new stud and the one they have is parent or grandparent of their sows, so the piglets they breed are born ill or stillborn) I discovered that he liked me a lot more than I might expect. He thought I was spontaneous, funny, intelligent, hardworking and beautiful. He liked the way I treat Eric's children and thought I would be a wonderful mother and even a better wife. When I got home, Eric, who had been cutting wood, had saw us talking and laughing and he was super-duper pissed.
The next two days were calm because Eric had to go on horseback to deliver a message to Olaf, one of the lookouts who lived some distance from the village and guarding roads, forests and meadows belonging to Halvar's town. The morning when he came back I was on the beach, picking up some seafood that were near the shore, in order to make some vegetables with clams. When I got home, Eric was made a basilisk. Leif and he were arguing heatedly. And I had "heard" around the town that Eric had kick Ivar out violently of his home.
Since Audr's birthday night rumors never stopped. I had become something the people of the town talk about, they were very little used to what they thought was happening: two men fighting over a woman. Apparently it was common for two women vie over one man, at the end of the day, it isn't surprising that a Viking had a wife and some other partner or concubine. I would think it was fatal in another time of my life, but it is true that war and shipwrecks gobble too many men like to limit marriage to a woman. So, while it is common to see several women fight over a man, it is not so much see two men confronted by a woman.
"Are you going to let him take her away?"
"Leif" warned his father.
"But... He's going to take her away!" Leif shouted as I entered.
"What do you want, eh!" shouted my future vampire.
"Hi there" I greeted "What's up Leif?"
"Ivar was here a moment ago" Eric spat me.
"Oh, I'm glad to see you. We are all well, thank you."
"Why does he bring you presents?"
"Have he brought me a present?" I did not insist because I saw the anguish in Leif's face, and same as him, his siblings. "What's happening?"
"He have brought you a piece of sow loin and a huge chunk of fresh bacon" Leif whispered as if someone had read his death sentence.
"Great, isn't it?" I removed my hood "It's starting to snow and I bet the bacon will fit us swimmingly. Where is it?"
"I've rejected it. And I don't want Ivar back here."
"Why have you rejected it?"
"I don't want him to bring anything to this house."
"But it was food! Audr is very thin" It wasn't true, Helga had already mentioned that since my arrival her grandchildren were more beautiful than ever. Audr was thin, but had chubby and tight cheeks "And look at Erik's knees..." My Erik knees were perfectly normal, a little bony, but I'm sure the medium of my children is hyperactive, anything that he eat he would burn in the next hour going to hunt rabbits, pigeons, or climbing trees and rocks. He was a restless spirit "If they eat properly Leif would have won the fight the other night" Actually Leif was almost 1'50 at his ten sprigs, which was really well considering he has yet to growth spurt.
"Okay!" He shouted. He left home and I didn't looked where he was going. I heard the horse out of the stable and I assumed that he had gone back to his secret mission. That afternoon and evening I had to deal with children and the buzzing news which had become the town. I went in the afternoon to walk around the village and change a horrible dead deer horns, Eric had there gathering dust for some fur or pouch, something which ultimately had some use.
I found that the people in town were making bets. If it isn't common to see two men arguing over the same woman (with the women available there), still less do see two Vikings fight for a slave, let alone two Vikings as Eric and Ivar, who were now the two most eligible bachelors/ young widowers in the area. They were handsome, hardworking, good men... Ivar had a farm and a good number of pigs and sheep and Eric had the best farmland in the area. Women do not understand why all the stir at me, while men reminded them that I was a beauty, and since my arrival, my house emanated best food smells in town.
The bets were divided from time to time from Eric to Ivar.
Ivar had in his behalf what Eric had against. People thought that if between my Viking and me nothing had happened in the time we had been living together it was because obviously I wasn't interested. While with Ivar they had seen me dance and chat happily. However, they felt that the love I had to Eric's children was his best chance in it.
The only clear by whom she had bet was Dalla. By late afternoon the pros had opted Ivar side: not load children with a good farm, possibility of acquiring land, small garden next to the fence of brown earth it drew two quarterly harvests of sweet onions, and my apparent attention. Some tried to pump me when they saw me on the street or away from home, but I wouldn't get into the struggle, I didn't even know what I wanted.
I knew what I didn't want, and didn't want Ivar, although I was very flattered and I liked him. But, fortunately or unfortunately, my affections were with Eric.
Not that the Viking had won them in particular but they came with me by default. In addition, there had been times that Eric was a delight: attentive, sweet, overwhelming, seductive, strong... as in his usual version. I sighed and took the bread out from the oven.
I played blind man's buff with the kids after dinner, I ate just a little bit and went to bed that night in Eric's bed, so that we could sleep all four together. Leif was afraid of Ivar taking me away, that I married him, and I had my own family and stop loving them. He regretted having told his grandmother to ask his father to stay away from me. Fantasized with the idea that Eric and I were together. That way he could be calm about his father and me. My eyes filled with tears and let it go when I heard that he thought that it would be like having Mom back home. Leif was the oldest and who missed her most. I stroked his blond locks until he fell asleep.
I woke up in the morning and started to do my chores. It had snowed overnight seriously and it was a white layer about three inches that covered everything. Our cottage was adorable, I thought having a camera would be handy. Shortly before the sun was at the top quite a stir was organized. I was indoors, warm, with the children. I was sewing and ruminating shenanigans to provide me some onions or carrots, we hardly had, and I was thinking how I could get back to the relatively normal with Eric. We went outside to see what happened, but I didn't let children peer into the snow. Eric was back on his black horse, covered with furs, but bareheaded. He stood a few feet away from home, he looked at me down from the high horse and dismounted. I saw what he carried to the rump and so did the kids, who let out a cry of joy. Eric carried the dead boar over his shoulders, walked up to me and threw it to my feet.
"There's your pig, woman" I know I stared at him as if he had grow four heads of the neck. I regained consciousness when I heard a chuckle. Helga was bending with laughing. Halvar thought that if his son had killed a boar for me, this was more serious than it looked. All other thoughts ran on that line. Some grumbled because they thought they'd just lose their bet. No woman could resist a hunter, warrior, sailor and farmer as Eric. He had proved in front of all the town people going hunting and coming back with a large piece before twenty-four hours, that he could take care of me and all that I bring him. I guess that's the way cave women felt, by selecting the best human specimen for their condition endurance, strength, and survival chances "Don't you have anything to do in your homes?" he shouted to his audience. I bit a smile, walked over to the dead and tried to drag the wild sow indoors grabbing its legs. But it weighed a lot.
"Eric, I can't" I said in the sweetest voice I could get out of my throat. He was appeased in a way that his mother choke on when she tried not to laugh.
"Gods of Asgard" Halvar murmured. Eric carried the bug inside the house and we followed him happier than a lark. He left it on the table and told me we had to clean it right away. I covered my nose and told him that when he washed out and take the clothes out of the house. He had carried on the shoulders that beast and he stank.
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