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...
(Song for this part is California by NIIA. It captures what is exactly going on between Nova and Andrew!)
Nova's POV
My eyes flicker open as I see the broken roof of a muddy house, the room is illuminated by firewood and it smells like lavender. The throbbing pain in my head has reduced but not gone, I shift my gaze down to look at two figures sitting on the either side of my bed as I lie in the middle.
"Nova? Thank the Lord, you are alright!" Andrew says as I manage to pass a faint smile at him
Then I look at the other figure as my hazy vision finally begins to clear
"Medusa?" I say slowly, I rub my eyes to get a clearer look at her.
She takes my hand and kisses it gently then she rubs it on her cheek and says, "Oh my poor child, look at you. I was worried about your health"
"Where am I?" I say while shifting my gaze back and forth as I hope that none of them say "French Castle"
"You are at home my love, My home" Medusa says warmly and I breathe a sigh of relief
"You collapsed in my arm and I was madly worried about you, I saw this house by the stream and brought you in, luckily she recognized you immediately. My love it's so good to see that you are alright" Andrew says and scoots closer to me
"I will make some soup" Medusa says and kisses my hand, then leaves the warm glowing room
I look around the room and I immediately recognize it, Medusa and I used to have great conversations here. She is like a mother and a God to me, whenever I am in any trouble she appears like a fairy in my life when I need her the most, like today.
"Oh my love" Andrew comes closer to me and kisses me, I hesitate a little
He stops and says, "What is the matter?" he looks into my eyes
"I am just really exhausted and I feel weak" I say as I look at the floor
He forcibly grips my chin and turns it towards him and it pains my jaw a little.
"Are you in love with someone else?" He looks dead into my eyes as I am afraid to even blink and the most shocking part of it is as soon as he said that, Ivar's image comes to my mind, the way I felt around him or how electric he made me feel.
"Let go of me, you are hurting me" I shove him aside and he stands up in anger
"Is it him? Did you give him your virginity already?" Andrew says furiously as he looks at me in wrath
"No no, of-course not! What makes you think that?" I say in protest as I stand up. We both stand on the opposite side of the bed, he is on the right and I am on the left with my hair open with my red dress on.
"Your touch doesn't feel the same the way it did back then, be honest Nova. Do you love him? Did you let him touch you?" Andrew's voice softens
I walk towards Andrew and I cup his face with my hands, "My heart belongs to you" I smile even though my heart doesn't agree with my declaration.
"I heard about your kiss with him" Andrew says and looks at me
My heart stops.
"I got a letter you know, from an anonymous source inside the castle. Telling me every bit of detail about how you were all over him like a whore" Andrew says with anger in his eyes
My jaw falls open, I take a step back as I try to connect the dots in my mind. There was someone spying on me and telling Andrew every detail. Even pretending to be me!
"A whore? That is what you think of me?" I say as I look at him in disbelief
He grips my right arm and squeeze my bones and says "You thought I won't find out? Didn't you? I found out everything, EVERY GODDAMN THING about you and him"
"It was just one time thing, nothing happened other than that one thing. I swear" I say and the next thing I see is Andrew's hand flying towards me
We search around the blood woods but we find nothing. It is way past midnight and the owls are hooting. I have 150 men and women with me, mount on the horses and searching for Nova.
I will never forgive myself if anything happens to her worse if she inform the other catholics bout the vikings presence in the castle, It will be a nightmare
"No luck. What do we do?" Torvi says
"Burn every church that comes your way. Burn every house if they are not pagans and do not wish to convert to Paganism" I say with bloodshot eyes. "I have had enough of this country, announce that the vikings have arrived"
I look at the moon and say as my body shakes in anger
"Andrew! How dare you?! I am your future wife and a royal!" I say lying on the floor as tears run down my cheek
"MY WIFE! MY BLOODY WIFE! THAT IS WHY I AM DOING THIS BECAUSE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE MY WIFE!" He kneels down and grips my arm tighter as I shriek in fear
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"Listen to me, you will get married to me tomorrow. I have prepared everything for our marriage at St. Ann's Church tomorrow morning. You wear white, fix your face and become my wife tomorrow" he says as his anger dissipates
"I love you Nova, don't you see it? I want to have children with you and live with you" his mood shifts completely
"Tomorrow? Isn't it too soon.." As I say he grips my other arm tightly and I can hear my bones crackling under his grip
"You do as I say. You are my future wife. You shall not speak any word that I don't approve of" Andrew says as his anger returns
He shakes me and asks "Understood??" , I reply "Understood" in immense fear of what he'll do to me if I don't agree with him. I don't have energy to defy him anymore. My mind, body and soul aches. I never knew this side of him, I trusted him enough to elope with him and now I see this devilish side of him.
He forcibly kisses me and then gets up
"Tomorrow" He smiles
I fake a smile back at him too and I finally breathe after he leaves and I begin to sob first slowly then heavily.
The door opens and I get my self together thinking that it must be Andrew but it's Medusa
"I heard everything Nova, are you hurt?" Medusa brings her soup and walk gently toward me
I shake my head as my eyes swell from crying so much and I run towards her and tightly hug her
"Oh my sweet child" Medusa says while giving me warm hug and runs her hand over my hair
"My lovely child" She says as I bury my head on her neck as I cry like I have never cried before, the floodgates that I have been keeping inside of me, open and I just can't hold it back anymore.
