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Chapter 58

Author: O.Fola
last update publish date: 2026-10-25 23:43:01

Ayla’s Pov

The Eastern wolves came for the first time on the third day. It wasn't a real attack. I was walking beside the wagons in the early afternoon when a horn went off at the back of the line, one long blast, and then I heard shouting. Warriors ran past me toward the rear. A few seconds later, an arrow thudded into the side of a wagon not far from my head.

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"Get down, miss!" the old warrior said, grabbing my arm.

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"Where are they?" I asked.

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"The ridge, behind us."

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I crouched behind t
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  • Chasing My Barbarian Luna    Chapter 59

    Ayla’s PovI tried to keep myself busy. There was plenty to do to assist the healers. They were short-handed, so I carried water and clean linen to the tent, where they worked on the wounded. I held a basin for a young warrior with an arrow in his shoulder. I tore strips of cloth until my fingers ached. When the healer told me to sit down, I sat for five minutes and then got up again. It was full dark by the time I finished. The camp had gone quiet. Cook fires burned low, and men sat around them in small groups, eating in silence. I took a bowl from the old warrior and held it without eating.⠀"He'll be back soon," the old warrior said.⠀"He said a few hours," I said.⠀"It's been two."⠀"I can count."⠀"Course you can, miss." He sat down next to me. "I'm only saying."⠀I put the bowl down. I walked to the edge of the wagons and looked out into the dark. There was nothing there but black ground and the faint line of the ridge against the stars. I listened for hooves. I heard wind

  • Chasing My Barbarian Luna    Chapter 58

    Ayla’s PovThe Eastern wolves came for the first time on the third day. It wasn't a real attack. I was walking beside the wagons in the early afternoon when a horn went off at the back of the line, one long blast, and then I heard shouting. Warriors ran past me toward the rear. A few seconds later, an arrow thudded into the side of a wagon not far from my head.⠀"Get down, miss!" the old warrior said, grabbing my arm.⠀"Where are they?" I asked.⠀"The ridge, behind us."⠀I crouched behind the wheel and watched. It was over almost as quickly as it had started. A handful of riders came down the slope, loosed a volley of arrows, and wheeled away before the Northern warriors could reach them. They hit two of our men. One of them fell off his horse. By the time the line had formed, the Eastern riders had vanished over the ridge.⠀"That's all?" I asked.⠀"That's all," the old warrior said. He let go of my arm. "They'll be back."⠀He was right. They came again that night, at the edge

  • Chasing My Barbarian Luna    Chapter 57

    Ayla’s PovNobody said anything for a long time. Darius stood in the doorway of the tent, and I sat on the blankets with the cup in my hands. The lamp hissed on its hook.⠀"You should lie down," he said at last.⠀"I will," I said.⠀"The healer left something for the bruise. It's by your feet."⠀"Yeah, I know, I saw it."⠀"Okay." He looked at the old warrior. "Stay here tonight. I'll sleep outside."⠀"You don't have to do that," I said.⠀"I know." He didn't say anything else. He gave me one more look, short and hard to read, and then he stepped back out into the cold. The flap fell shut behind him.⠀I sat there thinking about what Darius had said. “Ayla is my woman.” He had said it in front of the whole camp, where everyone could hear him. I kept remembering those words. He had sounded so sure of himself, as if he didn’t even need to think before saying them. Then he told the old warrior he would sleep outside. He acted as if nothing had happened, but I couldn’t stop thinking a

  • Chasing My Barbarian Luna    Chapter 56

    Darius’s PovMagnar kept looking at me, and I couldn’t tell what he was thinking. After a moment, he gave me a small nod. I remembered that same look from the day I first took command in the valley. He didn’t say anything, but I understood. He still didn’t trust me completely, but at least he knew I wasn’t going to let Haldor hurt Ayla again.⠀I turned and saw Ayla. She sat on the crate with a blanket around her shoulders. The old warrior stood beside her. She had stopped crying, but her face remained pale, and a bruise had begun to form on her throat. She looked straight at me, her lips parted and her eyes wide. I had never spoken about her that way before, not even once. I’d always told her it was about the child and only practical. I could see the questions on her face. Until now, she’d believed me. After what I’d said in front of everyone, I wasn’t sure she believed me anymore. I didn't say anything, and I wasn't ready to.⠀"Take her to my tent," I told the old warrior. "Get her

  • Chasing My Barbarian Luna    Chapter 55

    Darius’s Pov They made the ring on a flat patch of ground beside the wagons, packing the snow down with their boots. Men formed a wall around it, three deep. Someone brought two plain swords, heavy ones, the kind the Northerners carried. I took one and tested it. My shoulder pulled where the old cut had never fully healed. ⠀ I hadn't slept in two nights. I had ridden to the narrows and back. I had fought a dozen Eastern riders before breakfast. My arms felt weak, and my legs were stiff with cold. I knew it. Haldor knew it too. I could see it in the way he rolled his shoulders and stepped into the ring, loose and easy, like a man who had just woken from a good night's sleep. ⠀ I took off my cloak and gloves and stood across from him. ⠀ "Begin," said the man with the gray braid. ⠀ Haldor came at me at once. He was fast. I had known he would be strong, but I hadn't expected him to move so quickly for his size. His first cut came down from above. I got my blade up in tim

  • Chasing My Barbarian Luna    Chapter 54

    Darius’s PovThe crowd opened. The man with the gray braid came through at a fast walk, with the sharp-faced commander behind him. He was broad and stern, and the warriors made room for him without being asked. He stopped at the edge of the ring and looked from Haldor's bloody face to me, and then at the overturned barrel and the broken pole.⠀"Somebody tell me," he said. "Now."⠀Nobody spoke at first. Then the young warrior with the split lip stepped forward.⠀"The commander found Haldor with the girl," he said. "He was holding her against the wagon. She was screaming. We heard it from the cook fires."⠀"That's not what happened," Haldor said.⠀"Her throat is marked," said the woman by the front. "I saw it and her cloak's torn."⠀The man with the gray braid looked at me. "Is that true, Commander?"⠀"I came around the wagon and saw it myself," I said. "I didn't hear anything but Ayla calling out. Then I saw his hands."⠀"She belonged to me," Haldor said hoarsely. "Everyone

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