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Chapter 9: Her Door

I climbed the Wolf Tower after the last bell, with the gate pass in my pocket and the cold pantry key knocking against my thigh.

Nobody stopped me.

The two guards on the stair looked at the floor as I passed, and one of them was grinning.

The door at the top was black oak with a wolf's head cut into it.

I did not knock.

I turned the iron ring and walked in.

A fire burned low in a wide stone hearth.

A bed the size of a wagon stood against the far wall, heaped with furs, and a table by the window held a lamp, a map and a half-eaten heel of bread.

Ketil stood at the window with his back to me and his coat off.

He wore a plain linen shirt, open at the throat, and the long muscles of his back moved under it as he turned.

His eyes went to my face and stayed there.

"I told you to keep out of my way."

"And I told you I wouldn't."

"You hold a pass to every gate in my lands."

"I do."

"Then use it, Thyra."

It was the first time he'd said my name.

It went through me.

"I'm using it," I said. "It got me up your stairs."

I shut the door behind me and drew the bolt.

The sound was very loud.

His chest rose, and fell, and rose again.

"You don't know what this is," he said roughly.

"Hetta told me what it is."

"Hetta talks too much."

"Hetta cooked for your father," I said. "She talks exactly enough."

He crossed the room.

I did not step back.

He stopped with his boots against my toes, and the heat of him rolled over me, and the second heartbeat in my chest drummed so hard I thought I might be sick.

"I will give you this," said Ketil, low.

"I will give you my hands and my mouth and anything else you want of me.

"I will not give you the word."

"What word?"

"You know the word."

"I know it," I said. "I didn't ask you for it."

I took hold of the front of his shirt in both fists and pulled his mouth down to mine.

He made a sound I will hear until I die.

It was half a groan and half a growl, and it came from somewhere under his ribs.

His hands came up, huge and hot, and cupped my jaw, and then they dropped to my waist and hauled me against him.

He kissed me like a starving man.

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