Chapter 55: A case of dependence.
Sigrid trailed the knife slowly over his neck, almost as if she was caressing it with her fingers. "Welcome back, I hope you don’t mind but I intend to kill that canary. If you want to bring me a gift next time, try gold and diamonds. I can also accept you, just wrap a ribbon around your bare chest."
He retrieved his knife, but the look of anger in his eyes became even more prominent. Swiftly, he struck out his hand and put it on Sigrid’s neck, he didn’t apply pressure, it just laid there.
"She saved my life, did you have to humiliate her?"
His voice was raw, filled with emotion and accusation and it annoyed Sigrid. Even though she was not in love with Roland, to see him becoming emotional for another woman angered her.
She did not hide the contempt in her eyes or try to be polite, it would be lost in translation anyway.
"My husband comes home from war and the very first thing that he does is attack me for the sake of another woman. He even wants to strangle me, if the people see their crown prince right now, I wonder what they would think?"
He took his hand away and placed it at his side. "I don’t like the way you are phrasing your words, it almost sounds like I want to harm you for Emmah’s sake."
"Don’t you?" she bit out.
"No." he blurted strongly, "I just don’t understand why you are choosing to be unreasonable about this. You have a medal that saves you from death, even though you have magic the king cannot give an order to kill you but she is different, her circumstances are not similar to yours."