Rune blinked several times, trying to clear her mind. She remembered feeling the terrible grief and aching loneliness overwhelm her. She flushed when she remembered what she had said. She had baited the huge man in the hopes that he would end the pain with a quick snap to her neck.
She had not expected him to kiss her. She had been kissed a few times before, but never like the way the two men had kissed her. Her body flushed and she pulled the coat up in front of her to hide how her n*****s had swollen. They would be embarrassingly obvious to the men due to the thin gown she wore. A dark scowl pulled at her mouth when she thought of the fact that she had spent over a hundred years standing in a garden in her nightgown.
That was not funny, she thought in annoyance. You could have let me k
