Chapter 164


    Chapter 164: Sansa'' Gift


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    The moment I had left Cassiest night, my heart abso- lutely broke. She was everything I ever


    wanted, and though she reminded me so much of Anna, I didn''t want her to think the only reason why I


    was with her was because she reminded me of Anna.


    Anna and I had a rtionship far beyond what a normal guard would have with his charge, but with it,


    that was all it was. A sexual rtionship with no emotional attachment be- cause I was not her mate,


    nor would I ever have been.


    Granted, after Anna died, I absolutely broke into pieces, the emotions of losing her too much for me to


    bear. I begged fate to give me a chance to have a mate of my own, one who looked like Anna and had


    her kind heart, but with the fire of an internal dragon inside of them.


    I knew it was a long shot for me to actually have a mate who filled all of those things, but the moment I


    laid eyes on Cassie, I knew without a doubt she was exactly what I had been waiting for.


    She was sarcastic and witty. She was beautiful, and even though she had a rough exterior that was


    nothing but walls she had built over the years, she had the kindest heart I had ever seen in any one.


    She was the type of woman you wanted to spend the rest of your life with, and the fact her mate


    treated her the way he did disgusted me. He didn''t deserve her, and perhaps fate bringing her to me


    was the reason why he had rejected her.


    At least that was what I hoped for.


    The moment I had stepped into our room, when I saw her brother Pollux and his mate Trixie-a girl that I


    had known for many years - standing in the room with no Cassie in sight, I felt in the pit of my stomach


    something had happened to her.


    Of course Pollux would act like he did, and Trixie would have to get into the middle of our situation to


    ensure neither of us killed each other. But when I saw the blood, it all made sense.


    My love for her was not enough to keep her safe, and I should have fought harder to stay with herst


    night, I could understand why her brother would be angry and assume the worst of me.


    "Call your witch, Trixie," I said softly, staring at her mate with an absolutely distant and voided


    expression, unable to even think in that moment because the realization of Cassie being gone wasn''t


    something I wanted to believe in.


    I was in love with a woman I couldn''t have and as I turned away from Pollux and Trixie, I cast my eyes


    out over the city, looking down below at Asgard, wondering who it was that could possibly want to hurt


    a woman as kind as her.


    "Okay, she''s on her way. She''ll be here in just a minute."


    Pollux stood to his feet, brushing himself off as he curled his lip and anger at me. "You know, my sister


    came to Trixie and Ist night talking about how she ran into Lucas in the woods rambling on to himself


    or some shit like that. She was on the edge of town. You wouldn''t happen to know anything about that,


    would you?"


    Thinking back tost night and the way I had left Cassie back at the library, guilt filled me realizing her


    encounter with Lucas may have been problematic. However, it did make something clear, and that was


    if she did have an interaction with Lucas maybe he could have been involved with some- thing like this.


    "Partially. I was at the old ruined library on the edge of town. It''s a part of the history of Asgard. She


    and I had a dis- agreement and I left, which left her, of course, to walk back to town by herself. It''s not


    that long of a walk, maybe 20-30 min- utes at max, but I didn''t think anything would happen, nor did I


    know Lucas was out there."


    Anger soared through Pollux, and that much I could feel radiating off of him like a tidal wave of


    uncontroble power. He clenched his fists at his side as he narrowed his gaze at me. "You left my


    fucking sister alone out there? Anything could have happened to her, and yet you supposedly care


    about her."


    "She wasn''t in any immediate danger and it wasn''t like I had vanishedpletely. I took flight and kept


    an eye on her from above. I just needed time to clear my mind. But I didn''t even see her go into the


    woods. That''s what I don''t under- stand. The entire time I saw her walking along the road."


    "Yeah, whatever. There''s no way she just magically stayed on the road but magically went into the


    woods. Obviously, you weren''t fucking keeping an eye on her," he scoffed.


    We could continue the argument, but Sansa made her ap- pearance at the open balcony door, her


    eyes darting from Trixie and Pollux to me and then back. "Did I interrupt some- thing important?" she


    questioned and stepped forward.


    "No," Trixie said, turning to her friend with a gentle ex- pression. "These two just have too much


    testosterone and continue to bicker back and forward. I''m d you''re here. They were bing


    irritating.”


    Pollux''s mouth dropped open at his mate''s words and I couldn''t hide the chuckle that escaped me upon


    seeing his expression. I found it funny the two of them were mated to- gether. She definitely kept him in


    check and wasn''t what he was expecting. But in the long run I was happy because Trixie was a good


    woman and if anyone could get him into shape it was definitely her.


    I watched as Trixie quickly exin the situation. Sansa''s eyes fell to the blood on the cobbled balcony


    floor. "That''s it right there."


    She nced at me for a moment, and as I nodded my head, she bent down next to it, running her hand


    through the air above where the blood sat. "This isn''t just the blood of Cassie, there''s someone else''s


    mixed with it."


    This was news to all of us. I wasn''t quite sure who it was, but I was hoping Sansa would be able to


    figure it out. That way we might know who took Cassie and get her back safely. She pulled various


    items from the brown satchel she kept at her side; little bottles of herbs, a couple crystals and some


    ck powder I had never seen before.


    "So what are you gonna do? Like some magic spell or something, and it''ll tell us where she is."


    Sansa, Trixie and I red at Pollux with utter irritation.


    Standing to her feet, Sansa red at him. There was a thin line across her face where a smile once


    had been. She wasn''t going to put up with this shit and as I stood back with my arms crossed over my


    chest, I waited to see what it was she was going to say or do, because this girl was veryic back and it


    was very rare that anybody saw her upset.


    "Magic spell," she scoffed. "Is that the only thing that you think we do? Fly on brooms, brew potions,


    run around danc- ing naked around fires? Doing nothing but ying with crys- tals and creating magic


    potions."


    Her head bobbed with so much anger and sarcasm, my own eyes widened as I stood there watching


    this girl go- pletely off on Pollux.


    "There''s more to being a witch than just magic potions, you stereotyping asshole. If you have nothing


    pleasant to say, then step back and shut the fuck up and let me do what I do." The moment she


    finished talking, she spun herself to me. "Do you have anything to say as well?"


    "Nope," I replied, holding my hands up in defense. "Do whatever you need to."


    She took a moment to stare at me as if contemting on whether or not I was telling the truth.


    However, as I stepped back away from where the blood stter was upon the ground, she knelt back


    down once more, letting her hand hover over the blood as she closed her eyes.


    She mumbled something to herself and then her brows furrowed in confusion as she gasped. I had


    never seen any- thing like that, and as I watched her, I could feel the powerful aura rating off of her, the


    celestial blood that flowed through her veins, controlling whatever it was that was going on.


    Just when I was about to reach out and touch Sansa to make sure that she was okay, her eyes shot


    open and she jumped to her feet, stumbling backwards from the blood. But quickly Trixie caught her.


    The girl''s heart was racing, and I could hear that clear as day, which meant Pollux could too. And as


    she nced around at all of us, wide eyed, she ced a hand over her heart and held back a sob in


    her throat that wanted to escape. "She''s in really big trouble, I mean like really big trouble."


    "Well, we know that, do you know who did it? Did you see them?" Pollux snapped, causing me to growl


    at him in disap- proval.


    "Knock it off, Pollux. What happened to Sansa was that she saw visions. Those are subjective and


    never clear."


    I was slightly shocked I knew exactly what had happened to her. had seen it happen before, but to


    Anna, a very long time ago.


    Anna had visions and from what she said, they started not long after she came to Asgard. Odin


    bestowed upon her the gift of our immortality, something she didn''t want to have.


    "That''s right,” Sansa replied softly. "I''m not sure where she is, but I can describe it. The visions... it was


    so confusing. First, I felt like I was with Cassie... or well, seeing everything through her eyes. She has


    shackles on her wrists, and there is like brick or stone wall. It smelled wet, almost like wet dog but it


    was weird."


    I knew Asgard better than any of them did, and as I wracked my mind to try and figure out where that


    could have been she continued exining what had happened to her.


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    "It''s okay," Trixie hushed her. "Just take your time."


    "We don''t have time, Trixie," Pollux grumbled, earning him an angry re from the woman he was


    mated to.


    "We make time or I will punish you."


    Usually, I would have been amused by the angry banter between them, but right now, I was irritated


    because I needed to concentrate to focus on the task at hand.


    "I saw his visions, too." Sansa''s words stopped me and turning to face her again I couldn''t hold my


    tongue.


    "Whose, Sansa? Can you describe what you saw?"


    Slowly she nodded her head. "Darkness... deep dark eyes and a baby born in snow. A child without a


    father, and sorrow in his heart for a lost mother. There was a battle... one that caused a lot of death,


    and he is angry about it. He mes Cassie for the death... but at the same time, he is confused."


    I didn''t have the slightest clue as to what she was talking about, but as I looked at Pollux, his face went


    white as snow. “I know who has her-"


    "Who Pollux? Who fucking has Cassie?"


    His eyes met mine, and as they did he shook his head. “Lu- cas does... and if its the battle that I''m


    thinking about - we need to hurry before it''s toote."