Author's Note: IMPORTANT NOTICE: THIS CHAPTER HAS SEXUAL CONTENT.

Translator's note: I know I said every ten reviews but I got 10 reviews the same day I uploaded the chapter. So I'm sorry but I'm translating the fastest I can.

Chapter 22

I woke up with my back against Eric's chest, one hand caressing my hips and lips kissing my shoulder. The sun was much higher on the horizon, although I didn't think it was noon yet.

"I'll go and get some milk, you stay right where you are" He said. He got out of bed, grabbed one of the furs that covered it and threw it over his shoulder. I heard him back a while later. I kicked the furs away and received him in the most suggestive posture possible. I played with a lock of my hair, Eric dropped to the ground all he had on him. I reached out and patted the bed, inviting him to join me. Eric started to get excited.

I stroked my neck and breasts and I recreated in the vision of Eric getting exited. I kept teasing him so he didn't take his eyes away from me. Just enjoying the view we was offering each other. I reached down and started to touch myself, I groaned to see Eric's cock give a jolt and then he also masturbated. That was very exciting, until it became frustrating. I wanted him above me, in my arms and between my legs. Eric jumped on me as if he was a telepath too, as if he could read my mind and knew exactly what I wanted. We wallow and dumped the whole bed.

After making love like we were two crazy people, we were cuddle and half sitting, we had breakfast and chatted. I asked him to get me some slate because I wanted to teach the children to read and write, as the winter gave us a bunch of dead time indoors.

He was telling me that he could think of lots of things to do indoors and that would keep us both entertained a lot, when somebody knocked on the door.

"I can't believe it" Eric muttered. We didn't want to have visitors, so we were silent. They called again, louder, so loud, I thought our battered door would not survive "Coming!" He looked at me, and thought he had such a black luck, and kissed me several times "This better be important" I saw him went down the stairs, completely naked.

It must have been noon and it couldn't be that the boats were back. I yawned and stretched. I covered myself when I heard Halvar's voice down on my home. I wore a wool tunic. I combed my hair as well as I could, untangling the knots in my hair with my fingers (and I got some work because Eric had left a mess in my head – He likes to pull my hair too much when we're on the matter) and when I was fairly neat I went downstairs. Halvar gave me a deeper look, he looked at his son, he raised an eyebrow when Eric put his arms akimbo, completely naked, he shook his head.

"Your mother isn't here and I need to eat something" he simply said "Pour me something woman."

"I beg you Pardon?" that was Eric. It seemed incredible that in the absence of his mother, his father came to our home demanding to be fed.

"Is there something to eat? Or is it that you are going to spend all day fornicating?" I looked at him with open mouth.

"Wait I'll make something" I said trying to avoid staying in that room.

"Get dress" he ordered his son "and open the windows and door. Here no one can breathe."

"Okay, I'm going out" I said, and went flying toward the barn. I prepared some boiled eggs, I took a bread that had four days and we ate with some kippers and beans with green onions and the eggs. Halvar and Eric reviewed the details of the battle while we ate. I learned that the second of the ships had left the village, whose poor condition had mentioned Wulfric and Helgi before departure, had sunk while enemies addressed and ours had to use a desperate maneuver that turned out fine: at a disadvantage, they boarded an enemy ship (it was do or die killing drowned or frozen in the icy waters of the sea). Eric said they were about to lose, that the rivals were three against one when the other boats appeared on the horizon. That gave wings to both sides: Harald's men, because they believed that they already had Halvar's family at their fingertips, and ours, to the belief that children and women were on the boats, pushed to fight more fiercely. But when the ships approached, women, young and old warriors began distributing firewood, until the enemy fled in a boat overloaded with injured men. We didn't chase them. Eric ate enough and with a subtlety that he won't have in the future, made his father understand it was time to leave.

We said goodbye to Halvar from our rickety and battered door. As we close, we jumped on top of each other.

"I was beginning to think he was never going to leave" He smiled at me and took me to the table in a twinkling. He pull my dress up and click his tongue when he saw that I was wearing something under: wool pants. He stripped me of them and threw them somewhere around while I urged him to take off his robe. He turned his attention to the skirt of my dress while I untied the lace of his pants. We did it as if we had no time.

After a while (longer than shorter) Eric was kissing my neck while I rubbed his back like the back of an animal you're trying to calm with caresses. My heart was racing by exercise. I trembled and I noticed that something made his skin crawl. He pulled away from my body and brushed some hairs from my face. He didn't want to go an inch away from me and was surprised at his own desire, he only thought on catch his breath to take me to bed again. Unfortunately, the door was half-hook and broken and it had to be fix.

"I have to fix the door."

"I know" I said, but he didn't come out from between my legs and I didn't do anything to send him away. We were going to start a cuddle session when the icy wind whipped our rickety door and made both click our tongues. Eric settled his clothes back, I did the same and each one of us proceeded to one thing. He take a look to the door and went out from home to Ulf's to see if I could get some new hinges.

One could realize how well Eric and I had spent the last few hours at the time of making the bed and sort things out. There were clothes and weapons lying around everywhere and skins were made a knot on the floor. I let the clothes and the bed take some air and started ordering weapons and folding clothes.

Eric went straight to the fire, rubbing his hands.

"Is it so cold out there?" I asked worried. At the end of the day my children returned in the deck of a ship, with the cold, the wind and the nearly frozen seawater that had no mercy.

"Will you let me put my hands between your legs?"

"No, you would get used to it" he laughed. He went out and returned with wooden boards, a hammer and lots of nails. I started scrubbing the floor on my knees using hot water, soap and a stiff brush, while Eric fought with the door frame.

I cleaned the floor thoroughly, considering that during the attack I had brought the animals inside the house to refuge them and they didn't understand that in here they couldn't do poop. Eric lifted the door and I saw he had left it solid.

"Help me with this, Sookie" I got up from the floor and stand by his side "Hold the door there" I held the wood against the frame, but was too heavy and it almost comes over me "Hold it here, it doesn't have to move or I will place it wrong and it won't close" I did what he told me. Eric put the hinges on the frame and started hammering. He nailed two nails and went to the second hinge. He took advantage of me I could not move to grab my breast. I turned my neck and he kissed me. Assured the second pin and told me I could and go back to what I was doing. I touched his ass before pulling away to continue cleaning and arranging the beds of children.

We dined soon. We ate a couple of grilled onions that burned and some hot bread and cheese. I grabbed a bucket of water from the well while Eric came a bunch of wood that was settling into the home. I heated the water and the both of us wash ourselves like cats. Eric was rubbing me and I almost fall asleep standing. Tired as ever, I climbed the stairs and lay down on the side of the bed, Eric turned off the oil lamp and lay down beside me. I slept like a groundhog.

I woke up very late, but before Eric. Sun streaming through the window, I figured it was midmorning. I stretched and my movement alerted my partner. I sat on the bed and I started looking for something to wear to get up. Eric sensed it, opened a blue eyelet, and effortlessly knocked me back on the bed beside him holding me.

"What time do you think the children will arrive?"

"Surely they'll arrive this evening, why?"

"I want to make something special. I'll make some biscuits."

"What?"

"Some candies"

"But you don't have to do it now, right?" He stroked my breast. Not that I did not feel like, rare is the time I don't want to be with Eric, but I had a voracious hunger. And I wanted everything to be perfect when Leif, Erik and Audr arrive.

"And my dress? I'm hungry, Eric."

"Me too" he said, and touched down between the legs, in my private parts. I patted his hand and turned around looking for my dress.

I remembered striping myself the night before "Looking for this?" Eric show me the woolen robe, which hung from his right arm, as he rested his head comfortably on the left. I tried to take it off but he pulled it away easily.

"Give it to me."

"If you want to make those candies, you'll have to do it naked."

"I won't cook naked for you."

"You can cook naked for my kids or for yourself if you're hungry, I'll just watch" I clicked my tongue when he laughed and tried to take the dress from him, failing again. I pinched him a nipple but that only made him laugh harder.

We wallow in the bed, and one thing led to another, I ended up showing him the good rider I am.

Author's note: After all that waiting and suffering, I felt that they deserved a few chapters of complete peace.

Translator's note: I'll update when I get 15 reviews this time.