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...
"Are you sure?" Medusa asks kindly while she coughs
"Ofcourse I am. I am going to a place called Kattegat! Away from here! Far far away. With Ivar!" I dance around the room, a little ballet that I learnt as a child
"I mean are you sure about him?" Medusa looks at me
"What do you mean?" I stop dancing and sit beside her
"He has broken your heart Nova, he is bound to do it again" Medusa says while coughing
"No. Don't say that, he has changed or at-least he's trying to" I say as I look at Medusa with my mouth open
"Just be cautious" Medusa says
I don't know why I feel a certain pain in her voice when she says that as if she knows something that I don't know
"What is a Kattegat anyway?" Jezebel yawns and says
"It's the Viking's capital" I reply absentmindedly
"Do they have beaches there?" Jezebel asks
"Why did you say something like that?" I turn to look at a sickly Medusa
My mother has not been keeping well for some while, we have assumed that it is just a flu that she has caught
"I don't know" Medusa shuts her eyes as she lays down to go back to sleep
I feel the excitement in my heart draining out. My imagination was running wild with thoughts of Ivar and I, in kattegat but now, I feel a little unsure
As I think all this to myself, I can already hear Medusa snoring loudly.
"Leave her be, she needs rest. Let's go for a walk?" Jezebel says as she gets up from the armchair and gestures me to come with her
I look at Medusa but she seems peacefully in deep sleep
"Okay" I reply to Jezebel .....................................................................
I feel a little nauseous again as I walk by Jezebel's side
"Then you and Ivar can have lots of babies in Kattegat" Jezebel listens as I smile
I smile knowing that I love someone who loves me back
I smile knowing that I have found my one true love
"I am looking forward to meet Queen Aslaug and Queen Lagertha. They both are known to be powerful Queens, lived by all" I say
My mind buzzes with ideas and fantasies of the North. The people, the culture and the food. My heart has been aching to go to someplace new, Someplace away from here.
"Jezebel, I have some good news" I say as we walk in the castle gardens
"What?" Jezebel stalls and looks straight into my eyes
"I am pregnant" I say as the butterflies in my stomach are let loose
The secret I have been holding in for so long is out in the world.
I am carrying Ivar's child.
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