by Kris Tualla
“Are you with her?”
Not in any way imaginable.
“Yes.”
Hollis groaned. More tears flowed.
Paul turned his attention back to Hollis. “What about the man who was stabbed? Do you know him?”
Hollis nodded weakly.
“Do you know who stabbed him?”
“No,” she croaked.
Matt leaned over her, his expression stern. “You knew him? How?”
Hollis refused to answer Matt or even look at him. She wanted to wipe the tears from her cheeks but didn’t feel like she had the strength. The faint whine of an approaching ambulance edged into her consciousness.
She grabbed Paramedic Paul’s arm. “Am I going to the same hospital that man did?”
“Yes,” he assured her. “We always transport to the closest facility.”
Hollis tried to relax and concentrate on something other than the pain in her head and chest and the tears that wouldn’t stop coming.
Sveyn.
Obviously he had returned to his body in exactly the same condition that it was in when he left it, blood-gushing wound an all. Except in the eleventh century a broadsword wound through the gut would be fatal.
In the twenty-first century, however, he would be immediately taken into surgery and the damage repaired. The Viking was going to be in pain, but he was going to be alive.
The ambulance siren grew closer.
“Hollis!”
She glared at Matt. The man had no idea what sort of pain she was in, in spite of her snuffling sobs.
“How did you know that man?” he demanded.
Hollis would have laughed if it didn’t hurt so much. “You’re such an idiot.”
Matt recoiled. “What?”
“That was Sveyn, asshole.” She sniffed. “Now go away.”
THE HANSEN FAMILY TREE
Sveyn Hansen* (b. 1035 ~ Arendal, Norway)
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Rydar Hansen (b. 1324 ~ Arendal, Norway)
Grier MacInnes (b. 1328 ~ Durness, Scotland)
Eryndal Bell Hansen (b. 1327 ~ Bedford, England)
Andrew Drummond (b. 1325 ~ Falkirk, Scotland)
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Jakob Petter Hansen (b. 1485 ~ Arendal, Norway)
Avery Galaviz de Mendoza (b. 1483 ~ Madrid, Spain)
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Brander Hansen (b. 1689 ~ Arendal, Norway)
Regin Kildahl (b. 1693 ~ Hamar, Norway)
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Martin Hansen (b. 1721 ~ Arendal, Norway)
Dagne Sivertsen (b. 1725 ~ Ljan, Norway)
Reidar Hansen (b. 1750 ~ Boston, Massachusetts)
Kristen Sven (b. 1754 ~ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Nicolas Hansen (b. 1787 ~ Cheltenham, Missouri Territory)
Siobhan Sydney Bell (b. 1789 ~ Shelbyville, Kentucky)
Stefan Hansen (b. 1813 ~ Cheltenham, Missouri)
Kirsten Hansen (b. 1820 ~ Cheltenham, Missouri)
Leif Fredericksen Hansen (b. 1809 ~ Christiania, Norway)
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Tor Hansen (b. 1913 ~ Arendal, Norway)
Kyle Solberg (b. 1919 ~ Viking, Minnesota)
Teigen Hansen (b. 1915 ~ Arendal, Norway)
Selby Hovland (b. 1914 ~ Trondheim, Norway)
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*Hollis McKenna Hansen (b. 1985 Sparta, Wisconsin)
Kris Tualla is a dynamic, award-winning, and internationally published author of historical romance and suspense. She started in 2006 with nothing but a nugget of a character in mind, and has created a dynasty with The Hansen Series, and its spin-off, The Discreet Gentleman Series. Find out more at: www.KrisTualla.com
Kris is an active PAN member of Romance Writers of America, the Historical Novel Society, and Sisters in Crime, and was invited to be a guest instructor at the Piper Writing Center at Arizona State University.
“In the Historical Romance genre, there have been countless kilted warrior stories told. I say it's time for a new breed of heroes. Come along with me and find out why: Norway IS the new Scotland!”