Page 1 of Odin

Prologue

Odin

It had only taken one orgasm to knock my new wife out.

I chuckled softly as I kneeled between her spread legs. I didn’t want her to suddenly wake and be afraid of my shadow. Staring down at her beautiful face, I took a moment to let my pride swell. My wife was finally at peace, and I’d been able to give that to her.

With her spread open like this, I couldn’t resist one taste of her pussy. I wouldn’t break her trust in me, but I was a man. A man who wanted his wife, and I didn’t think one lick would do any harm. I made it quick, but I savored her scent in my nose and her taste on my tongue. If I had to name the flavor, I’d call itmine. The word resonated within the deep realms of my brain. Mine. Serena was mine.

Sleep was useless. Grabbing my phone, I started looking through work emails for something to do. Outside contracts always worked the same way. Two shady partners enter an agreement. They screwed each other over and then criedfoul. I was the God of War, not the judge and jury.

Closing out the email, I opened the tracking app to check on the cop. Before the wedding, they had brought the ranking members of the Italian family in small groups to greet me. It was an old-world tradition that I had no use for until Sergio Lombardo had walked in with Luca Carazzo.

When Luca Carazzo had stuck his hand out to congratulate me, I swore he had a glint in his eye. I had pulled him close by his hand and tapped his bicep like we were going to be good friends. As my hand had come away from him, Fuckface hadn't even realized I'd dropped a tracking device into his suit coat pocket. Benefits of an ill-spent youth. He was an undercover cop trying to bring down the oldest mafia family in the city, and when his plans had crashed and burned, he had attacked Serena as a way in. I wanted my pound of flesh.

He was on the move.

I started mentally working through targets. If he was after Serena, there was no chance he’d get to her. Every plan for this wedding had been strategic. I'd picked the only Italian property that had a honeymoon suite on the first floor with only one entrance hallway. I could sneak out undetected if I needed to, and it was also easier to guard. There were two Deviant guards at the end of the hallway and more surrounded the property at all the major exits.

I looked over at Serena. She was stunning, and I didn’t want to leave her, but I had this weird suspicion that something was about to go down. There was no viable reason that Carazzo should still be in the vicinity.

Closing the app, I texted Mr. De Angelis.

I need to follow the cop.

-O

He didn’t hesitate to respond.

I’ll make sure she’s safe until you return.

My office. Monday morning.

-AD

I quickly dressed and checked my gun before sticking it in the back of my pants. I snuck one more kiss on my sleeping wife and went out the balcony doors into the night.

Chapter 1

Serena

I heard the soft click of the lock, but I didn't pay it any attention. I let my body sink back into the mattress with not a care in the world. No sooner had the thought crossed my mind than the realization that Odin was gone thumped to the forefront. My eyes quickly opened, and I rolled over to sit straight up in bed. Looking at the balcony doors, I could feel it deep in my bones. Hoping that I was wrong, I called out, but there was no response.

It was our wedding night. Possible explanations played in my mind, each one progressively worse.

Maybe he had someone else. I imagined he had no problems getting women. If that was the case, I'd have to develop a smiling poker face and pretend like whomever it was didn't exist.

Maybe he went to a brothel. There were plenty of them, and he could easily gain access.

Maybe it was me. Maybe I repulsed him. He's given me pleasure but hadn't taken his own from my body.

I hadn't been married long enough to know, and there was no one I trusted to ask. I wasn't sure if it was a wife's intuition or some sort of deeper connection that had caused it, but it scared me how much I relied on my new husband in such a short amount of time. He'd treated me well, and I was concerned that I was reading more into those actions than what was actually there.

I didn't feel safe without him.

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Odin

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