Viking With A Heart

Chapter 14 (Reworked)

Eliza's POV

We made it to this field we all used to play in as kids and I notice the caskets. It makes me curious as to who did all of this but when I notice four older men standing there it makes me even more scared. It was then the man who marked me stopped in front of a set of two. The others did the same. I got curious so I stood up on my toes to see what was in them. I then saw my mother and father and couldn't help but fall to the ground to weep, after a few minutes I could hear my friends doing the same probably realizing that their families are also in there.

I feel a hand pull me up and pull me into a hard body. So I did what I could and started to weep into his body trying to find comfort. When I got my self together enough I turned around and said a prayer aloud for all five of us.  I turned to him and noticed the knife on his waist and grabbed for it, when he took my wrist with a questioning look I pointed to the knife.  He grunted but kept looking at me so I took the knife and went over and carved my mother and fathers names into the cross at the top of their funeral pyre.  I moved over to the others and did the same for their parents.  When I returned to the mans side I handed him back his knife.  I then turned around and grabbed the fire from his hand and lit the wooden pedestals they were suspended on. As I was turning to cry again into the man holding onto my arm I noticed the other three men do the same and then hold onto my friends like the man who marked me is doing to me.

As the man held me all I could feel was safe. I don't know why, but I felt like nothing was going to happen to me. I let the man pick me up and allowed him to take me where ever he wanted to take me. It was as we were passing the pin and I could hear a girl screaming from inside the shop next to it I noticed that the other marked girls were no longer there and that the man carrying me was taking me towards the docks.

When we made it to the docks he took me aboard a big ship and took me to an area below the deck. He kept walking but I could hear other girls already there begging to be let out. When he made it to a door he opened it and I noticed in a corner were the bags he took from my mothers shop as well as my bag and the blankets that were with me in the pin. I looked up at him but he kept walking til we got to the center of the room and he placed me upon the bed under what looked to be pelted covers. He then started to undress and was standing in his full glory. I looked away blushing not knowing what to do. I am not to see a man like this unless he is my husband.

I got under the pelted blanket and rolled away from him hoping he will get decent again, but to my luck no such thing happened. I felt the bed shift and the covers shift as well. I roll over and came face to face with the man responsible for carving an A into my shoulder. And he was just smiling at me with what seemed like no care in the world. All I could do was huff a breath out and frown back at him.