The Seducer by Elin Peer

Author:Elin Peer [Peer, Elin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-08T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 21

Last Night Together

Finn

The atmosphere between me and Athena had been tense all day. Her words from last night, that she had opened her heart to me, had freaked me out. Like a warrior raising his shield for protection, I had reminded her not to fall in love with me, and refused to examine my own feelings for her.

I did have feelings for her. It was getting harder to crack jokes and make it seem like I didn’t care.

“Do you think there’s a chance that Tristan could be your biological son?” she asked me as we went to bed that last night.

“No, I’ve never donated sperm, so it’s not possible,” I replied and got comfortable on the bed next to her. “It would’ve been amazing though, you know, to have a son.”

“How would Tristan’s life have been different if he had grown up in the Northlands?” Athena asked, with a hand between the pillow and her chin.

“You’ve spent nine days with me, which makes you something close to an expert on Nmen, doesn’t it? I think you know the answer to that question by now.”

“Can I ask you something different then?” she breathed.

“Yeah.”

Athena swallowed before she asked the question. “Why do you idolize Magni so much?”

“I don’t idolize him. He’s just my best friend, that’s all.”

“But how can you be friends with someone who kidnaps women?” She narrowed her eyes. “I’ll bet he has even killed people.”

“First of all, Magni doesn’t go around kidnapping women in general. He only did it to you. Secondly, his job is to secure peace and stability in the Northlands. Of course he has killed people. If he hadn’t, they would have killed him and his family.”

A small triangle formed between her eyebrows when she frowned. “You’re friends with a murderer.”

“Don’t call him that. Magni is a warrior, Athena. And a damn fine one too.”

“But human lives are precious.”

“I’m sorry to tell you this, but some humans are scumbags who only bring misery and pain to others.”

Athena spoke in a low whisper. “But Finn, how can Magni live with himself without feeling remorse for the lives he has taken? And how can you not hold it against him?”

I looked down, knowing that I could never make her understand, unless I opened her eyes.

“You think everyone is kind and good.” I sighed. “There’s an innocence and pureness to you that I envy and resent at the same time. The thing is, Athena, you have no idea what really goes on in the world. What good people are capable of when it’s a matter of survival.”

Athena lay quiet, and just listened to me.

“You talk about being open-minded but at the same time you’re judgmental.”

She protested. “How can you say that? I haven’t judged you, have I?”

“Yes, you have, and you don’t even know the worst of what I’ve done.”

Her eyes widened.

“If you want to judge Magni for killing, then you’ll have to judge me too.”

Athena blinked and her nostrils widened in a big inhalation of air. “I don’t believe you.

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