NINETEEN
ANNABEL
I didn’t have it in me to keep walking. Not when there was nowhere to travel to.
Even if I could make it to Hel without Grim stopping me, even if I could somehow do what none had been able to do before me and convince her to release me from this place, it wouldn’t matter. Not without Grim. And he had made it plenty clear that he would never help us stop Ragnarök.
It was… understandable, I supposed, in some sick, f****d up way that made my heart ache and tears sting my eyes as I lay in Freya’s glade and stared into the swirling sky. Asking five alphas to share a mate was insanity. How my first four had come to accept it, I wasn’t sure—family loyalty at first, perhaps, or obligation. But once they’d claimed me, once they’d felt the true force of that bond between us, I d
