Filed To Story: Luna Riannon and Alpha Brayden Novel
“‘Strength,” Bjorn confessed easily. “No one can compare with me in strength.”
“Why were you running away all the time then?” She couldn’t help this little jab, and the bear’s l!ps curled into an understanding smile.
“To have as few casualties as possible,” he admitted. “I was serious about this. And also-” he stopped talking, and Savannah suddenly realised that he was about to reveal something extremely important, something she had to hear.
“What is it?” She urged him to reply.
“There was only one limitation to my power,” Bjorn said after a pause, looking at the woman that was now his and thinking there wouldn’t be any harm in letting her in.”I will tell you. There’s no point in hiding it now that everything is over.”
Savannah leaned with her back against the door, ready to listen, and nodded for him to go on.
“l asked for this power, and I had to prove myself worthy to get it” he started explaining, “and when I finally achieved my goal and became this strongest shifter to ever exist, my first thought was to march straight to the capital of the North and K*ll Kai that very day. He was already the Northern King back then.
However, the deity who blessed me told me not to do it”
“Why not?” Savvy’s voice was barely a whisper as imagined that her beloved could have been K*lled even before they’d gotten to know each other. Those precious memories she cherished might have never happened.
“I don’t know the details, but he warned me against going into a battle one-on-one against Kai. He said that the lycan king would defeat me if this was to happen and that I had to find another way out of my predicament with the Northern Crown. I didn’t have any reasons to doubt the words of the God who had given me what I needed the most, so I took his advice to heart. After all, there were ways to defeat Kai without fighting him, and this was exactly what I did in the end.”
Savannah clenched her l!ps as the pain stabbed her heart deeper. If only Kai was alive, she would have known the one way to end it all. This did not explain, however, why a God would tell him that. Weren’t gods almighty? Why couldn’t his chosen one K*ll Kai? As far as she knew, Kai wasn’t blessed by a deity, although he did have a special ability. Was this somehow connected to the fact that Kai and Elene could easily shift to their third forms and then shift back without any kind of trouble, unlike other lycans?
She stopped herself. There was no use thinking of this now. Kai was dead, and Bjorn was basically a super bear now. Her plan was getting more complicated because K*lling him was at the centre of it all, and now she knew exactly what she was up against.
“Again, Savvy,” the man walked closer to her, and she felt the scent of chestnuts and wintergreen intensifying,
“I’m telling you this as the first step of our new relationship because I believe in this. Your wolf is still healing after everything that happened and-
Not this again. She couldn’t listen to this again.
As if the heavens heard her thoughts, the door opened, and the Serpent entered the office without invitation.
“I hope I’m not intruding,” he smirked, although it was written all over his face very well that he knew he was. Savvy was grateful, though, because it was a chance for her to escape.
“I will leave you to it,” she said and tried to retreat to the exit, but Joran caught her wrist and yanked her back.
“Nice bracelet!” he sneered, and Bjorn growled menacingly.
“Take your hands off my mate!” he snarled, each word filled with venom and warning tones.
“Just admiring my most recent creation,” Joran chuckled, unclenching his fingers and making Savannah gasp.
“You made this?” She touched the patterns on the cold metal. She knew at once that magic was involved when Bjorn clasped it on her wrist, but Joran did not give her a warlock’s vibes.
“I can make anything happen,” the Serpent winked her, standing with his back to Bjorn, who seemed furious about their interaction. He was clearly implying that he could help her, but she remembered the price.
Savannah made her way to the exit, trying to grasp the bits of the conversation between the two men as she was slowly closing the door behind her.
“Bad news for you, Bjorn, I still have not found my dragonfly,” Joran said in a mocking tone.
“They come and go as they please,” the Bear King grunted. “What seems to be the problem this time?”
“The problem is that I sent you my favourite one, and now she is missing along with my payment” The Serpent sat in one of the chairs and placed his feet on Bjorn’s desk, to the displeasure of the latter. “And if you can’t find her, this will make our last contract void which will result in a lot of trouble for you.”
“She got the payment as usual,” Bjorn had a vein protruding between his knitted brows. “What happens after she takes it is none of my concern. They all belong to you.”
“She is somewhere on your lands!” Joran said lazily, “so it is very much your concern.”
Bjorn turned to one of the bookshelves and got a scroll that looked a lot like a map. Savannah gasped map was something she could use. If she could take just a glimpse..
The bear’s healthy eye glimmered as he spotted her in the darkness behind the door, and she realised that it was time for her to retreat.
To Savannah’s relief, Bjorn didn’t come to the room at night. She feared that he might, but for once, luck was on her side.
However, she was about to test it because the more she was thinking, the more she was sure she needed to see that map.
The thing was. Savannah did not want to believe it, but she suspected that the God, the deity Bjorn was talking about, was Joran. It simply made sense because the White Bear King bowed to no one, and most people here were afraid of him. But not Joran. Joran behaved like he owned the place. Not to mention their first conversation and the fact that he asked for her firstborn.
That was a bizarre request for anyone. Unless..
Unless he was a deity.
The thought alone terrified her, but also… also it gave her hope. She was not going to give him her firstborn because if he asked for that, then he knew she would have one. Or at least that was what her logic told her.
Moreover, he must have thought that when she did have a child, that it wouldn’t be with Bjorn. Savvy did not want to think of it, but it suddenly started looking like she had a future. Like there was hope.