He was determined to keep me here. I was determined to leave. This might be tricky.
“I don’t want to stay with you. You can’t keep me against my will. That is kidnapping, and here on Earth, kidnapping is a serious crime.”
“Being kidnapped is better than being dead.” Forseti shrugged.
“You keep mentioning this threat of death. Are you referring to the serial killer I’ve been chasing? The one whose victims look like me?
“Killers, plural,” Edda said. “Loki has sent the dark elves to find and eliminate all of the valkyrie demigods that Odin placed on Midgard.”
“Midgard, you mean Earth.” I was trying to follow along with this fairy tale.
“Yes, you call it Earth. It is one of the nine worlds, the one where the mortal humans live.”
“So, let me get this straight. Odin whored out some of his strongest valkyries—”
“Watch your language,” Forseti interrupted me. God, the man had a definite alpha male vibe to him.
“—in order to give birth to valkyrie demigods,” I continued as if I hadn’t heard him. “These women are supposed to be Earth’s defenders when the dark forces arrive for war. Yet, no one has trained them or let them know of their powers, so when the dark forces came, they were able to slaughter them all, all that is, but me. My parents aren’t actually my parents. My mother is a valkyrie and my father is the God of War and Justice. I have repressed powers inside of me that Forseti here”—I turned and glared at him—“the God of Justice, is going to help me find and hone so that I can use them against these dark forces who are out to get me.” I crossed my arms over my chest and leaned back in my chair. “Did I get that all?” I spat, with sarcasm dripping from my tone.
“Yes. That about sums it up,” Kara answered matter-of-factly.
I wanted to stand up and scream that they were all insane and run out of the house. There were several issues with that plan though. I didn’t know where I was and I didn’t know how I would get home. I also had no way to communicate with the outside world, since my phone had been crushed to pieces. Then, there was the nagging thought in the back of my mind that perhaps they weren’t entirely insane. You had to have superhuman strength to crush a phone with your bare hands like Kara had done. Edda had proven she could indeed read my mind. We looked incredibly similar. Could it be possible that we really were cousins? I had more questions than I had answers and I didn’t like it; I didn’t like it one bit. I have a need to explain everything in a logical, scientific manner. That is what I do. That’s what I’ve done since I was a child. Right or wrong. Black and white. Quick, decisive decision-making based on balancing the logic with consequences of the action. This wasn’t logical. It made no sense.
“It makes a lot of sense,” Edda said, again reading my mind. “It doesn’t make sense compared to what you’ve known here on Earth. You, my dear cousin, are an Asgardian. Valkyries have more pigment in their eyes, this is the reason your eyes are bluer than the average human’s. There is so much to tell you, so much you need to know.”
“It would help if she had the bare basics to go off of. I can’t believe they skim over your Norse history in school and act like we are nothing more than a myth! Of course, Odin did want us to step back and keep interaction with humans at a bare minimum. My dad, however, thinks we should drop down and hammer some sense into the species,” Kara interjected.
“That is enough,” Forseti said firmly, drawing my attention back toward him. “There will be time to answer all her questions later. The mission is to keep her alive. We will complete that mission at all costs. Edda, I need you to go and find out what you can about the location of the dark forces. Gather intelligence on where they are and what they know about Morrigan. Kara, I need you to return to Asgard. We need a restock on supplies, and I would like a second team of Operators on standby. I will stay here and guard Morrigan, answer some of her questions, and help her discover who she really is.”
“Do you think it is wise to separate us?” Edda asked. “I can read her mind and let you know when she isn’t being honest…”
“I am the God of Justice,” Forseti answered. “I am pretty good at discovering when someone is being less than truthful.”
The two of them laughed like they were sharing an inside joke.
I watched unamused. They were going to leave me alone with this giant?
I started to protest but thought better of it. Being stuck here with him alone could be a good thing. Instead of escaping from three sets of watchful eyes, I would only need to escape from one. I could get on Forseti’s good side and get his guard down. Maybe, before I got free, I could have just a small nibble of his delicious looking…
“Don’t even think about it,” Edda said.
Heat rose from my neck and spread out across my cheeks.
Damn her and her mind reading.
“Not that, you can think about that all you want. Don’t think about trying to escape.”
“She won’t escape,” Forseti declared confidently. He leaned toward me, putting his elbows on the table and got right into my face. “We are going to have a nice long conversation about what will happen if she disobeys me or tries to escape. The consequences of such actions aren’t pretty.” He leaned back in his seat again.
My heart rate raised.
Consequences? What kind of consequences?
Well, he did threaten to spank you when you were over his shoulder.
He had indeed. My cheeks flushed and my pussy flooded at the memory. My arousal went from zero to ten in two seconds flat.
Would he spank me? Really? What would it feel like to be over his thighs having that monstrous-sized hand landing on my bottom?