1980617813 (F) by S.M. Schmitz

Author:S.M. Schmitz
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Published: 2018-03-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Keira sat across from me and gently removed the bandage on my shoulder so she could put a clean one over my new stitches. I kept shooting her disturbed glances, and she kept returning them like I was the one who’d participated in the slaughter of an entire family. Of course, I hadn’t told her about my dream yet, so she had no idea why I was looking at her so funny, but details like that seemed totally unimportant.

She taped the new bandage down and gave up. “You’ve been looking at me like I’m the anti-Christ all morning.”

“I think maybe you are,” I shot back.

She blinked at me and asked, “You think I’m the anti-Christ now?”

I shrugged then yelped because, like the dumbass I was, I’d already forgotten I’d had my shoulder stitched up twice now and shrugging hurt like hell. “I think I’d completely misjudged you, because anyone who can murder a child has to be evil.”

Keira narrowed her eyes and threw the medical tape into the first aid kit. “I’ve never hurt a child, and I never would. How can you say that?”

“You did!” I argued. “You want me to believe every one of these dreams is a memory of Havard’s, right? So you don’t get to claim only some of them are accurate just because you don’t like what I’m dreaming about now.”

Keira gasped and stood up, backing away from me. “But I would never do something like that…” she whispered.

“And yet, you did,” I snapped. I recounted the entire dream for her, and as she listened, the color drained from her face. “And Havard’s message. That’s the way gods think, isn’t it? We’re gods and we’re more powerful than you humans so we can do whatever we want?”

She shook her head but her mind seemed trapped in a past she clearly couldn’t remember. “I’ve never been so cruel, Gavyn. I don’t understand why I’d do something like that.”

And she sounded so sincere, so sick over this forgotten memory that I actually felt sorry for her. “Maybe because Havard ordered you to. But at least you still have a mind of your own. Imagine having this asshole’s DNA in you and having to worry about it taking over.”

“It won’t,” she promised, but she no longer sounded so sure.

“And Yngvarr was so casual about the whole thing. I think that bothers me the most,” I admitted. I mean, this guy was my friend. And thanks to Havard constantly butting in with his feelings, I loved him like my own brother. How the hell was I supposed to reconcile his past actions with the man I knew?

“It won’t do any good to talk to him about it,” Keira said. “He won’t remember this either. But we know now what the Sword of Light can do, and we have to keep it out of the Sumerians’ hands, just in case they can figure out how to make it work.”

“About that…” I took a deep breath. “I could see the sword Havard gave Arnbjorg so clearly.

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