Heart Of Honor

Krista had said that she loved him. Elske meant love in Norse. His father had loved his mother, but Viking men married more from desire for a woman and the need for a family than love, and Leif had never thought to feel the emotion himself.

But yesterday, when he had looked into Krista’s beautiful face, when she had told him she would marry him, that for him she would give up all she held dear, in that moment he had known he loved her beyond all reason.