Chapter 6 Attacked

"Your pies were eaten so quickly, you should make much more next time," Erick told her with a smile.

"And how many did you eat?"

He shrugged. "Half at most."

"So you ate more than a dozen pies today. And you were also eating the wild boar all the time too. I'm surprised you can still be moving. You should have burst open by now."

"Me? Never." He wrapped his arm around her shoulders and pulled her closer because she has been slightly shivering from the cold wind.

"Thank you, Erick," she said with a shy smile loving the closeness of their bodies.

She was really starting to like him. And not just appreciating his kindness. She started to have feelings for him. And not just any feelings. Really inappropriate ones. Last night she was imagining touching Erick while he was sleeping and pressing their bodies together. Then he would wake up and press his lips to hers. She has quickly tried to stop the flow of these thoughts. But one could easily tell, what was she thinking about, just by looking at her red cheeks, slightly enlarged pupils and her biting her lower lip softly.

"Are you alright? You look a bit drunk. How much did you drink?"

"Only the one glass you have brought me." Her vision was a bit blurry but not from alcohol.

"I am corrupting your innocent nature. We should go home."

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Suddenly, five figures emerged from the shadows. Five drunk Vikings. They surrounded them. Rosalie recognized them. They were from Murtagh's ship. And between them stood Bard.

He stepped closer and said, "Erick, why are you having fun alone. We want to have fun with her too. Either all of us will share or you will just leave her to us and get out." He hiccupped.

"Rose, follow me," Erick whispered to her and turned to Bard. "I'm not interested. Rose is only mine and you won't ever touch her, Bard. Stop doing bullshit. Go home and sleep. Obviously, you drank too much."

He hiccupped again. "If you haven't noticed, it's one against five. You don't stand a chance. So either join or get out. "He hissed again.

"I'm not interested. Return to the party. "

"That is not up to you. You made the wrong decision. "

Erick has pushed Rosalie closer and whispered in her ear so the attackers won´t hear it. "He will attack now. He doesn´t consider you a threat. Run and get me some help. I can´t fight with all of them. Most importantly, don't get involved. When I tell you, you'll run away." The drunks approached, and Erick squeezed her hand and whispered to her to run.

Rose turned to do what he had asked her too and at that moment another attacker detached himself from the shadows. She looked back at Erick but he fought the five drunks in front and ignored her. The sixth assailant, whom Rosalie knew only by his appearance and had no idea of his name has quickly approached her. The man walked over to her and kissed her roughly. To make things worst, he started touching her, pulling on the top of her dress which made her breasts jump out of it. Rose fought back but he was much stronger. He stood behind her, squeezing her breasts in his palms. His smelly mouth was pressed against her ear as he was whispering naughty things that he had planned to do to her. He was clearly aroused because Rose felt his member pressed into her lower back.

She was really scared, not knowing what to do. Erick was still occupied with five other attackers and losing. The man that was touching her was getting more and more adventurous. He tore the front part of her dress, inch after inch to provoke and torture her even further. Rosalie was truly desperate. She had nowhere to run, the man was holding her too firmly.

There was only one thing, she could do. She took a deep breath and kicked him in the shin.

The man shouted and let her go. The scream caused the other attackers to look at them. Rose didn´t waste even a small moment and ran back to the party. Along the way, she has adjusted her breasts and tuck them back into the remaining of her top of the dress. The man who had attacked her before was on her heels.

Suddenly she saw a perfect size stone by the road. She picked it up and threw it at the attacker. She hit his head and the man fell stunned to the ground. She looked in the direction of where Erick was fighting before but now he was laying on the ground along with the four other attackers. But he wasn´t moving. The only man left was one of the Murthagh´s man. He was holding a knife and wanted to kill poor Erick.

Rosalie was so scared, she quickly ran back to Erick, not even caring that half of her chest was showing. She started pulling at the attacker´s arm trying to stop him. But she was only annoying him with her tries. They were fighting for a while until Rose has squeezed him really tight and his knife came flying a few yards away.

The attacker got really angry at her and pushed her to the ground. He has pressed her so she couldn´t move and started to strangle her. His strong fingers pressed against her soft throat not giving her airways any oxygen. She felt really dizzy and it hurt so much. Her eyes were slowly closing, and she knew her life was slipping away.

And then there was only darkness.