Viking Unbound by Kate Pearce Read Free Book Online

his neck.
    With a growl, he caught her fingers and threw her over his shoulder. Her breath slammed out as he picked up the pace and jogged down the tight passageway between the tall iron containers. Eventually, he let her down, but wrapped a hand around her throat to keep her exactly where he could see her. He used his other hand to investigate his neck.
    “Don’t take that off.”
    His fingers froze.
    “It’s a universal translator strip, FREN programmed it with Old Norse.”
    He felt the edges of something foreign against his skin but didn’t remove it. She twisted around to gaze up at him, her brown eyes wide.
    “You can understand me now, right?”
    He nodded.
    “Great.” She swallowed hard, her throat working against the blade of his dagger. “So, could you put the knife away while we talk?”
    He shook his head and her skin went pale.
    “You can’t understand me?”
    He sank down to his knees bringing her with him, her back to his chest, one of his hands still at her throat, the other around her hips. On impulse he leaned forward and buried his face in her hair inhaling her flowery scent and the throb of her blood beneath her skin. With great care he bit down on the curve of her throat until she jumped.
    “My female,” he growled.
    “I certainly am not yours,”
    “Mine.” He bit harder, and she tried to pull out of his grasp. “Mine by blood and magic.”
    “I’m not magic and my blood is my own, thank you very much.”
    “You will change your mind when you are under me begging for my cock and my seed.”
    “I…will not! That’s disgusting, I—”
    He wrapped her ponytail around his fingers and drew her face to his for a savage kiss. “You will beg.”
    She bit his lip and he cursed and released his grip on her hair.
    Her bravery impressed him. He settled her closer within the grip of his thighs until her arse was against his leather-clad groin. His cock kicked up and he fought a groan. He’d have her soon; have her spread beneath him while he fucked her hard but not yet, not quite yet.
    “They’ll be coming to get you,” she whispered. “There isn’t anywhere for you to run.”
    “I don’t run.”
    The last time he’d done that, he’d been encased in ice by a fickle and demanding God.
    “Good,” she breathed. “Then put down your weapons, and we can work this out.”
    “Nay.” He pressed the edge of his dagger against her throat. “Tell me, sorceress how you called me from my sleep.”
    “I didn’t do anything,”
    “You lie.”
    She shivered. “There was an eclipse. The systems went haywire. You just appeared out of nowhere.”
    “I do not understand your words.” He pressed a little harder. “Your blood called me. I felt it in my soul.”
    “That makes no sense. I didn’t call you I—” She went still and then started talking, babbling like a brook in high season making it difficult for him to follow her. “I pricked my finger, there was one drop of blood, but it came from the ice, it wasn’t… oh dear Gods, what happened?”
    “You called to me.”
    She subsided against him. “Well something happened because here you are. Maybe it was both, the eclipse and the blood.”
    “What is this eclipse?”
    “When the planets aligned and covered the Pavlovan moons of Odin and Thor.”
    He didn’t understand half her words, but at least something made sense. “You know of my Gods?”
    “I’ve studied up on them.” She sighed. “Will you please put the dagger away? You’re scaring me.”
    He looked down at her auburn head. “Nay.”
    “I won’t let them hurt you.”
    “Let them?” He snorted. “I am a match for any man. I do not hide behind my womenfolk.”
    “You can’t win this one. You have no idea where you are, what’s been happening, or where you are going.”
    “This could be one of Floki’s tricks. I could be dreaming the whole thing.”
    “I wish I was dreaming.” She tried to straighten and then winced as his blade grazed her neck. “I