The silence in the room was too loud.
Elise was trying to ignore Thorkel but he wasn't going to back off this easy. Cathy had long gone asleep, Elise's shoulders were aching and getting numb but she still hadn't put the baby in the crib.
Thorkel had had enough.
"Elise, give her to me, she's asleep and you're not comfortable." He took Cathy from her turning a deaf ear to Elise's protests. Elise didn't stand up, she warmed her hands by the fire feeling safe as long as she was down on the ground.
Her senses were on alert and she knew she would have to come face to face with Thorkel soon. In the past few days she had forgotten everything he had done to her. Even her loathe for the man had been non existent but she wasn't going to forgive him this easy.
Forgiveness would come.
But not
