Fates Promised (Call of the Norns Book 2) by Aimee Vance

Author:Aimee Vance [Vance, Aimee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Revel Books
Published: 2022-12-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

Shelbie

Sun leaked through the window as I sat at my desk, lost in thought. Five weeks had passed since Christmas, and I wanted to feel normal. Each day, Domari and I worked together to help feed and care for the horses, mucking stalls, changing hay, and exercising them. Once those tasks were done, he tended to focus on the manual labor Charlene needed help with around the ranch, and I sat at my desk, scribbling anything that came to mind. Almost always, I ended up penning my dreams, focused intently on the Viking world we’d left behind. Almost always, they were far darker than the world around me, full of pain and anguish that felt so real, I couldn’t seem to shake it.

Lately, whenever I shut my eyes, I was transported back in time. Sometimes I watched myself drop my bracelet under the roots of the Tree, witnessing Domari crashing to the ground, curled over my seemingly lifeless form. Others, like the girl’s story on the shore with the Norns, I wasn’t sure what made me imagine those scenes playing out like a movie in my mind. And Signe — I had two journals filled with stories I hardly remembered writing featuring the woman, let alone brainstorming these backstories for her. Why was I picturing her and these children so clearly? I felt her pain in my heart, crippling as it washed over me, dragging me under like a relentless tide set on drowning me.

To some extent, I understood why my mind drifted back to the Eriksson clan. It wasn’t only Domari I’d fallen in love with last fall — it was his whole village I’d connected with. Magnus and his wild story-telling. Gunnar and his easy confidence. Yrsa and her tender care. Signe, though…

I glanced down at the story I’d written last, the dream that had seemed so real. It was as if I’d been there, watching from above as Signe sat in the snow with a younger girl, hair raven black and curls as wild as my own. I didn’t recognize the girl, but Signe… it felt like she watched me. Could see me in the distance. This dream I’d had so many times lately since Christmas, replaying over and over in my mind as my eyes connected with hers across the forest and fields covered in snow.

Something about her seemed to call me as if I could sense she needed me, but that was outrageous. First, Signe was stronger than anyone I’d ever met — she needed no one. And the thought of being able to sense others’ distress, especially someone a thousand years ago, was even more ridiculous than time travel.

Still, the Erikssons tugged at me. While my life seemed to be a waking dream lately with Domari in my life, everything I’d ever wanted in a relationship at my fingertips, I felt broken. A crack was forming in my mind, pulling half of me back to a time I didn’t even know how to return to.

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