"Are you listening to what you're saying?" Salome asked. "You want to go there without any plan? What if they're with father?"
"That would even be better," Beowulf said angrily in return even though he knew deep within him that Salome was right. He needed a strategy for his confrontation with his brothers but he was too angry to admit that. He was so upset that his brothers might have devised such a wicked plan against him. Planning against his mate was planning against him -- in Beowulf's books. Beowulf didn't think that he'd be able to forgive them if he ever found out that they knew.
If Marmin knew about this, Beowulf thought as his angry gaze calmed and his shoulders that had been squared relaxed. The dark circles under Beowulf's eyes showed quite well at that moment. And he looked like he was carrying so much weight in his mind.
