The Viking's Curse (Woodland Creek) by Xandra James & Woodland Creek

Author:Xandra James & Woodland Creek [James, Xandra & Creek, Woodland]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Military, Paranormal, Werewolves & Shifters, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Anthologies, Myths & Legends, Norse & Viking, Romantic, Sword & Sorcery, Ghosts, Psychics, Witches & Wizards, Anthologies & Short Stories, Metaphysical & Visionary
Amazon: B0181EL6R2
Publisher: Midas Jinx
Published: 2015-11-13T18:30:00+00:00

15: Kol – The truth at last

I knew I was dreaming.

It wasn't the first time I'd foreseen the future as I slept. When you travelled the realms, when you shifted as freely as I could through the veil, you experienced things. Some good things. Some not so good.

This time was different, though. The night was perfect and the moon hung low in the clear sky. I'd shifted into the draugar already and I could feel the cooling air on my exposed skin across my chest. There was no movement, not a sound to be heard, and it made me anxious.

My ghost-like form shimmered in the moonlight as I paced backward and forward across the beds of the dead while they slept deeply.

It was then I saw her as clear as day. I knew her as my wife. Clementine's image lingered in the back of my mind, but that wasn't the name of the woman who stood before me. The woman was TJ.

She held her dagger in her hand and she chanted the words of her Lord. Over and over again she prayed, knees in the dirt and face lifted to the heavens above. Angelic. That's what she was. Clementine...TJ... The images melded into one.

I smiled at her, showing my love. It felt strange to show her affection. I was drawn to her, like it was the most natural thing in the world to do. Reaching out and touching her consumed me, but I couldn't seem to manage it, however hard I tried. I wasn't in control of my own body.

"Kol Brandsson, your soul is dead." Her words didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. "You must die to redeem yourself. And I will kill you."

I probably could have killed her easily as she knelt before me. Something I've achieved a thousand times over in this realm and the next, but I couldn't do it. TJ was going to kill me. And I was going to let her save my cursed soul.

I blinked open my eyes, a light sweat on my brow and covering my chest. A heaviness had lifted from my chest as I looked out into the darkness of the lounge, from the sofa where I'd been sleeping.

The woman I was going to save would be my ultimate price. And I would willingly take whatever she had to give, I realised. I knew her secret; I knew the questions in her heart. Maybe I have all along.

TJ would kill me in revenge for killing her parents. And I would allow her to do it.

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