Ragnvald returned a short time later pretending to ignore Maddox while he grinned at me like a fool.
“It was Gunnr,” the Alpha reported. “I called for his warrior brothers to keep watch over him.”
“Is he all right?” I asked.
Ragnvald looked surprised that I’d ask after the wellbeing of my attacker.
I shrugged. “He is pack. If one of you is hurt, the rest feel it, yes?” I didn’t know how I knew that, but Ragnvald’s slow blink told me I was correct--and that I’d spoken a secret I shouldn’t know.
At last, Ragnvald inclined his head. “Berserkers heal fast. Maddox just did enough damage to drive him off.”
Maddox accepted the praise graciously. “No need to kill him. Gunnr scented Sabine and couldn’t resist. I know the feeling.”
“As do I. But this cannot stand,” Ragnvald said in a harder
