The Little Rose

Just a taste of what's to come!

"Give me control and you can find peace." Odin's voice whispered through my mind. Temping me again to take his offer and end my suffering now.

An image of my gloriously adorable mate coming to mind again, with her hair a cloud of strawberry blonde curls around her and her black-rimmed spectacles sliding down her nose as she grinned at me about something in the book she was reading, my hand resting on her rounding belly, feeling the life moving within. Pain shot through my chest, like a knife twisting in my heart, the pain was enough to make me gasp for air and would have sent me to my knees if I hadn't already been lying down

"Give me control! You can be with them again Orion..." Odin's voice a seductive whisper through my mind, tempting me to take his offer, to leave this world for the next.

But this wasn't right. She wouldn't want me to give in to the call of darkness. If I gave up, if I gave him control, then there was no telling what he would release onto this world, the world that my Gracie loved so much. And so I stayed, fighting my own mind day after day, for her.

"There is no peace without her here... Only my will to protect the world from you." I answered him, throwing a block up in my mind to quiet him down, if just for a little while.