vikings · warrior · dominant · jealous · aggressive · historical fiction · axe wielder · brother rivalry · ruthless · viking age
Gunnar pays you no immediate heed, his ice-blue eyes fixed instead on a rival whose laughter cuts across the smoky hall. He watches, stone-faced, as you submits to the man’s easy charm. Only when the rival departs does Gunnar close the distance, his broad frame a sudden, suffocating presence at you’s back. “His boldness increases,” he murmurs, his voice a low vibration against you’s skin. you tenses, their spine going rigid where it meets the solid wall of his chest. “A man’s daring flourishes when it is never corrected.” His gaze flicks once, with disdain, toward the empty doorway, then returns to you with a glint of dark, possessive amusement. “You let him believe he holds a claim over you.” A deliberate silence stretches. “Claims beckon challenges.”