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Chapter 15

Knighton

Leighton rode into Knighton expecting to find his bride to be doing work in the house, making bread or sowing the usual womanly jobs, instead he found her outside loading hay stacks onto a cart to take to the sheep in the field. It annoyed him how much time she spent outside and with these men. Nothing more than common villagers, once he was married to her he would stop that. He would lock her in a room if he had to. He walked to the cart, Marian was smiling as a young man pulled her up onto the back of the cart. They were about to leave but Ashley shouted. "Marian!" Marian groaned.
"Should we go on?" Adam asked as Marian stood and jumped down of the cart.

"No." She said quickly. "Wait here, this will not take long."

"Marian, what on earth are you doing out her, with this lowlife." He grabbed her arm and started pulling her towards the house. "Come inside and get cleaned up. Now!" It was a demand not a request.

"Get your hands off me." Marian snapped and she pulled back her arm. "You have no right to order me around and they are not lowlife they are my friends and ten times the man you are." He grabbed her hair and pulled her head on an angle. She winced and Adam jumped down from the cart.
"How dare you? Who do you think you are? You are nothing but a former sheriff's daughter. Even Locksley left you behind and now I see why. Now you will marry me in two weeks as planned and then you will do everything I say." He snorted at her, Marian grimaced at the pain as his grip got tighter. She summoned all her strength and kneed him in the groin. He released her and landed on the floor.

"Never touch me again! You are not worth the dust on these men's shoes. I will never marry you Ashley of Leighton. You are cruel and bitter. Not worthy of someone's love. How dare you think you can take my lands and I would stand by and let you?" She shouted at him, Adam was stood right behind her now.

"You are nothing but a worthless whore. Locksley probably took what he wanted and left you. What was wrong, you weren't good enough? Or did you out live your purpose? You are nothing but a whore." He spat at her. Marian gasped, now that hurt. Adam saw red, he launched his body into the shaky standing Leighton knocking him to the ground again, he raised his fist and slammed it down on Leighton's face, knocking him senseless. He turned to see tears brimming in Marian's eyes. He pushed himself up from Leighton's body and went to Marian. Marian wrapped her arms around his middle, at first he was shocked she had never been like this towards him, she must have been really hurting. He wrapped his arms around her back and gently soothed her.

"How about we tie him up, gag him and lie him across his horses saddle." He said, hoping she would say yes.

"I like that plan." Marian laughed pushing herself from Adam, smiling once again.

Nottingham

Leighton's horse had managed to find its way to Nottingham after Adam and Marian let it go at the edge of Sherwood with Leighton tied to it. It stopped in Nottingham castle courtyard, Ashley was screaming through his gag. Vaisey and Gisborne walked down the steps. "What is going on?" Vaisey shouted. "Get him down!" He screamed. Two guards untied him from the saddle, they pulled him down and took of the gag then began untying his arms and legs. "What happened Leighton, tell me the leper is marrying you." The sheriff gasped.

"I will not marry that girl. She… she." Leighton spat not finding the words to describe Marian's behaviour.

"Leighton my boy, all you have to do is slip a pretty little ring on her finger then do as you please with her."

"She worked it out, the plan, she will not marry me. And I would not even think of marry her, she may be pretty but that is the only thing good about her."

"Leighton what about the lands, the power."

"Find some other fool who would think of marrying her."