Truth and Other Lies: A Loki Fantasy Adventure (The Nine World Chronicles, Book 1) by Lyra Wolf

Author:Lyra Wolf [Wolf, Lyra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ravenwell Press
Published: 2020-10-08T16:00:00+00:00

15

A Line in the Sand

Asgard

Salt filled my every breath and the ocean mist clung to my skin as I watched Odin throw stones into the breaking waves. Pinks and blues softened the night sky as dawn approached, and I could just make out the pines on the surrounding cliff tops.

Memories rushed over me as the waves beat against the rocky coast.

My stomach tightened.

He would choose here.

Bastard.

I couldn’t recall how many hours we’d spent over the millennia talking deep into the night, casting pebbles into the ocean as he did now. What hit me harder were all the times we didn’t speak at all. I could still feel the heat of his breath, and smell the sage and clove on his skin…

I wiped my face with my hand, wanting to remove any trace of him. Of our past.

Water rippled and clacked through the smooth stones as another wave crashed against the shore. Surf foamed around Odin’s leather boots. He picked up another rock and tossed it into the churning sea.

Best get this over with.

I walked to him and my heels sank into the gray pebbles. I hated how familiar it all remained to me. Like I’d been here only yesterday, even though it had been far, far longer.

I cleared the dryness from my throat.

“It’s been ages since we both stood here together,” I said. “Are you trying to awaken sentiment in me?”

He didn’t answer.

Wind raced through his russet hair and flapped his blue tunic around his broad shoulders and trim waist. He hurled an oval rock at a small boulder standing beyond the breaking waves.

He missed it by a good six feet.

“I see your aim is still dreadful.”

He picked up two more stones and spun them in his palm as he stared out at the Asgardian sea.

“I had hoped respect for our friendship would have been enough to bring you back to me,” he said.

He threw one of the rocks, this time missing the boulder by only three feet.

I moved closer until I stood right beside him, killing the urge to pick up a pebble and join him like the old days. He kept his gaze firmly on the horizon. Or I guessed he did, I only saw his eyepatch covering his right eye.

“You have my respect,” I said. “I have returned to you as you wished.”

He chuckled darkly.

“You always did think you could lie to me, Loki.”

I crossed my arms. I didn’t have the energy for his games.

“If you have something to accuse me of, then come out with it.”

The lines of his face tightened and the corner of his lips drew into a frown. He angrily flung the final stone into the black roiling ocean.

“I told you to stay away from that girl,” he snapped. “But you always love to disobey me.”

I admit, it was vastly entertaining. I particularly enjoyed his annoyance when he found me out. It always brought a pretty color to his cheeks.

As it did now, but I knew better than to tell him that. I might be rash, but I wasn’t an idiot.

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