Chapter 153


    Chapter 153: Golden Shimmers in the Darkness


    Cassie.


    Thest thing I wanted to do was see Odin, my supposed grandfather, when I had more important


    things to worry about, like what was wrong with Lucas. However, here I stood before him, watching as


    he took me in from head to toe, run- ning his hand over his beard as if he had something on his mind.


    “You called for me?”


    Nodding, a smile crossed his wrinkled face. “I did… I know ourst meeting didn’t go as I had nned


    and I wanted to clear things up.”


    Stunned this was why he called me, I opened and closed my mouth, trying to find the words needed to


    make sense of why I was here. Of course, I wanted to talk to him, or at least I thought I did, but right


    now wasn’t the time to do it.


    “I’m not sure what you want to talk about…” It was true, I didn’t know what he wanted to talk about


    considering there wasn’t really much to say, but by the look on his face, he was- n’t pleased with my


    remark.


    His brows narrowed at my words as he sat a little straighter. I had no doubt he wasn’t expecting me to


    respond the way I did, but it was irrelevant. Pollux and Trixie were wait- ing for me and being here


    wasn’t going to help the mass of mysteries we were trying to figure out.


    “Castor,” the sound of Odin saying my first name was a distraction. No one called me Castor but my


    mother, and that


    was usually when I was in trouble.


    “Odin…” I replied, holding my chin high. “I’d say that we can do this all day long, but I honestly have


    something else to tend to.” I refused to backdoor or show any weakness. If he had something to say,


    he could get on with it.


    Chuckling, he shook his head with a smile that made my brows furrow in confusion. “You have such a


    strong will to survive, Castor. So much confidence and yet it is perfectly bnced by the soft, sweet


    side of you that you hide away.”


    “Showing weakness gets you killed,” I replied quickly. That was a lesson my father taught me long ago,


    and something I made sure I didn’t do.


    “There’s more to life than simply hiding behind what you fear. We really do need to have this


    conversation, but I can see by the way you are moving from foot to foot you would rather be elsewhere


    than actually having a conversation with me. Am I correct?”


    “You would be correct,” I quickly said with an eyebrow raised in his direction. Gesturing with his hand,


    he showed me towards the door, not saying another word. I wasn’t sure if this was a good thing or if I


    possibly made a huge mistake in disregarding whatever conversation he wanted to have with


    Turning towards the door, a heavy breath escaped me as I thought over what I was possibly doing.


    Was this going to be a negative mark against me, refusing to have words with Odin? Or would it be a


    positive thing to where he maybe wouldn’t look at me again, and therefore, I could go under- cover or


    do whatever it was I needed to do without his watch- ful gaze upon every move I made?


    Regardless of all of it, my mind went back to my brother and friend, who currently watched over my


    unbonded mate, whoy in a bed full of darkness, and I had absolutely no ideal what had happened to


    him.


    Was I angry at him for the way that he had acted? Yes.


    Then again, deep down, I knew I was not the easiest per- son to live with.


    Making my way down hallway after hallway, taking turn after turn, I found myself closer and closer to


    Lucas’s door, and as I opened it upon my arrival, I was shocked to see the sight before me. Lucas,


    upright in bed, was snarling at Pollux, his eyespletely ck as if the Onyx depth of despair had


    filled him and not a single bit of light was left.


    I didn’t have the slightest clue what was going on, and thest thing I wanted was for the gods to figure


    out what it was. It was bad enough that Freya was obviously well aware of the situation if she said


    anything to Odin.


    There was a chance Lucas could be imprisoned here.


    Which, no matter how much you pissed me off, wasn’t something I wanted for him.


    Gazing around the room, my eyes fell on Sansa, and with a wide, shocked expression, she shrugged


    her shoulders. “I have no idea what happened.”


    “What happened while I was away? I was literally gone for fifteen minutes,” I eximed in anger. How


    was it we calmed the chaos for a moment, and I came back to a shit storm


    brewing in his room?


    Lucas’s eyes darted directly toward me as I spoke. “You,” he growled in anger.


    I wasn’t sure what his problem was, besides the obvious, of course, but slowly he slid off the bed, and


    as he did, I made sure not to freeze in front of him again. I wasn’t going to be a victim this time.


    Letting the power that flowed through my bodye alive, he stopped in his tracks and growled at me


    again, the problem was my stupid ass brother didn’t know I had every- thing under control, and as he


    tried to rush Lucas, he got sted back by something I hadn’t expected to see.


    A power that almost mimicked mine, but one of nothing by obsidian darkness.


    Trixie screamed out my brother’s name as she and Sansa tended to his unconscious body. He wasn’t


    dead, and that was simply by luck. But knowing Lucas hurt my brother pissed me off, and without a


    second thought, I charged him, only to have him toss me onto the bed and pin me beneath his body.


    With his ws at my neck and only inches between our faces, I felt myself break. I wanted to hurt him,


    hell part of me wanted to kill him for hurting Pollux, but I couldn’t.


    “Lucas, let me go. Look at what you have be!” | shouted at him, trying to get his attention, trying to


    do any- thing I could to make him see he was losing control of who he


    was.


    “Me?” heughed maniacally. “You’re the cause of all of this, Cassie. You’re the burden on not only the


    human realm


    but this realm as well. If it weren’t for you and the power in- side you, so many people would still be


    alive,”


    “What-” I gasped, my eyes instantly filling with tears at his words. “Lucas, stop… it wasn’t my fault.”


    “Nothing is ever your fault, is it? Poor Cassie, she can’t take the fall for anything, can she? What a


    pathetic use of godly power.”


    Lifting his other w high into the air, I wondered if the end wasing. I wondered if I was going to


    die, but a roar, unlike anything I had ever heard, rattled the room, and as it did, Lucas was ripped from


    my body and tossed toward the far side of the room.Têxt ? N?velDrama.Org.


    It took a minute for me to process what had just hap- pened, but as I looked toward the figure currently


    stalking Lu- cas’s body, attempting to get up from the floor, I took in a sight more magnificent than


    anything I had ever seen.


    Ss stood there, a golden shimmer epassing his body. Fiery irises burned in the center of his


    eyes. “Under themand of Odin, you are to be taken.”


    “What? No, Ss…” I didn’t want Lucas imprisoned, nor did I want him hurt. He wasn’t himself, and I


    could see that. Hell, I could feel it from the small bit of our bond. Something was wrong with him, and I


    had to find a way to save him.


    But before Ss could even get hold of him, Lucas quickly lept out the nearest window. My heart


    jumped in fear as I scrambled to where he had just been and looked out, expect- ing to see him dead.


    Only he wasn’t.


    In fact, Lucas was nowhere to be found, and his lingering


    words rattled through my mind like a gue of pain that pounded down upon my heart.


    “Cassie, are you okay?” Looking over my shoulder, Ss was back to his normal self, and with a


    sorrowful expression on his face, I couldn’t resist hugging him. My arms reached for him without


    hesitation as I buried my face into his chest.


    “Thank you, but how did you know?” ncing up, he looked at me with a smile and shrugged his


    shoulders.


    “Odin,” he said softly, making my blood run cold. “He knew something was wrong, so he sent for me to


    find out what it was.”


    “If it was Odin, why didn’t he or the other godse to help us? Why would they let it happen and not


    step in to help. us fix this?” None of it made sense, and as a sigh escaped him, his eyes turned to


    Sansa, who quickly stood to her feet, rolling her eyes.


    “You want me to give a history lesson?” she asked, cross- ing her arms over her chest, “that’s bullshit.”


    Ss groaned with irritation as he gave her a death stare that amused even me. After a moment of


    reluctance, she rolled her eyes and sighed. “Okay, fine. The gods don’t inter- fere because the mortals-


    even the half-bloods – must know how to handle our own problems, in simpler terms. They only step in


    when it directly affects them.”


    “That’s the stupidest thing I have ever heard,” I muttered to myself, but obviously loud enough for the


    others to hear. “What’s the point in all of this, then?” “What do you mean,” Ss asked as he stared at


    me, “this


    is how this realm works.”


    “Yeah, and it’s beyond stupid. Are you telling me they just let everyone do whatever they want? I


    mean… something is wrong, and they won’t help. That’s fucking stupid. I don’t even get the point of


    being here. I’m not learning anything, and honestly, all it reminds me of is being in high school again.”


    My outburst definitely surprised the others in the room; even Trixie frowned at myment. My brother


    groaned and with that, caught everybody’s attention. And I was thankful for that-considering I did not


    want the attention on me. All I wanted was to be able to go off on my own, back into the hu- man realm,


    without anybody around to tell me what to do to try and live a normal life.


    I had hopeding to Asgard to live with the gods, to learn from people like me, would be beneficial,


    but in the end, it hasn’t been. I was stuck here trying to figure out who I was and grow from the


    mistakes I had made, and in the long run, ended up with problems that involved my brother and my so-


    called mate.


    Why was it fate couldn’t just let me be normal for once?