Enslaved after a reckless choice, Kilda, a young Volva with growing power, is drawn into a world of passion and peril where love breaks shackles and will defies destiny.

Chapter 6 (Chained and brought before the Jarl)

Vidar had not even warned me that I would be given away, a simple slab of meat. 

The woman’s eyebrows lift, her smile grows, reaching the cliffs of her cheekbones. Her large stature and firm facial features exude strength, echoing Vidar.

“A gift?” says the Jarl, “Of flesh and blood and bone?”

“A fine addition to your house. Father.”

As strange as it feels, at the lowest point of my life, being passed from man to man, I only care about what this woman thinks of me. She is a shining Aesir. A Valkyrie among humans.

Chapter 26 (Training begins… with forced proximity)

“Don’t get any weird ideas!” I hiss.

I’m fuming. It’s already weird. I’m already dishonored. What unwed girl sleeps in a tent with some strange man? An older one at that. A skald, to top it off, a poet. I unroll my sleeping bag and toss it on the floor.

“What kind of ideas do you mean?” asks the bastard crow.

As if he doesn't know. Of course he’s unbothered. Surely his friends would slap him on the shoulder with a shitfaced grin, “well done, my man,” they would say, or “another notch on your belt, big guy”.

Chapter 63 (A moment of safety and trust)

We don’t break eye contact, the moment is shared, the moment is holy.
As I enclose my mouth around the meat, my tongue glides across the rough texture of his thumb, sending a purr through my entire body.
His eyes flicker to my lips from the contact, I know he felt it like I did.
A fire is kindled beneath my belly, a hunger awakened. My life begins now.

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