Page 46 of Vicar
“Why would I avoid this place because of you?” he asked.
She felt his affection for her tiny self. How much he had cared about her.
“I don’t know,” she replied. “I get the feeling we shared wonderful memories in this lair. That I felt safe here.”
“I feel the same.” They followed their tiny dragons as they made their way to the rocky shore at the mouth of the cave. “Do you remember how you traveled here from the future?”
Trinity shook her head. “Not yet.” She kept eyeing her surroundings, baffled that she had forgotten this place. “But this was definitely where I ended up when I came back to visit you.”
“Trinity?”came Maya’s echo-like voice in her mind.“Are you there?”
“I am,”she responded, knowing Vicar could hear as well.“Is everything all right? Is Raven doing okay?”
“Sort of.”She heard the hesitation in Maya’s internal voice.“She’s just not herself. Her energy’s going from super negative to null and void. You know those strange trances she goes into.”
“Yeah.”Trinity sighed, worried.“Should I come home? Try to help balance her out?”
“God, no,”Maya said.“The best place for you is on your journey so we can finally get these godly wars over. How’s it going anyway?”Hesitation.“I sense something different about you. You’re less...I dunno...held together.”
Memories of Vicar and Trinity when they were younger continued to come and go. Sometimes they raced around or zinged along the water. Other times they sat shoulder to shoulder by the shore, chatting away. Then other moments still, they simply entertained themselves, content in knowing the other was nearby.
“I seem less held together?”Trinity replied to Maya, chuckling.“That doesn’t sound good.”
“It is, though,”Maya assured.“Like me, you’ve loosened up some. Not sure how else to describe it.”
Trinity could only imagine after what she’d experienced with Vicar.
“So Vicar really is the one,”Maya exclaimed, surprised but in her usual positive vein.“I’m happy for you, sis.”
She would be fooling herself if she denied Vicar and she weren't destined to be mates. They might still be learning about each other, but it was only a matter of time. Their connection was only growing stronger.
“Thanks, Maya.”Now back to the matter at hand.“Did Raven share why she responded so strongly to Tor?”
“Other than to say he’s the devil incarnate, and she’ll never step foot near him? No,”Maya replied, concerned.“Let’s put it this way. As seen clearly in the weather she manifested, her rage at Tor put what Jade initially felt toward Thorulf to shame.”
Not good because Jade had been beyond furious.
“It must have to do with Revna then.”Who wouldn't have issues with the woman who hooked up with their fated mate?“That’s all that makes sense. I don’t blame her either. Especially if her history with Tor is anything like what the rest of us have experienced with our Vikings. Because they’re obviously destined to be together, right?”
“You would think,”Vicar said.“If for no other reason than the coincidence nobody seems to be pointing out.”
Trinity tilted her head in question.“What’s that?”
“Revna means Raven in Norse.”
“No way, that’s,”Maya began, but her voice faded away before she had a chance to finish her sentence.
“Seriously?” Trinity arched her brows. “That’s a pretty big connection.” She frowned. “Far too coincidental.”
“I always thought so.” He shrugged. “I mentioned it too, but Tor dismissed it.”
“Dismissed it like it didn’t matter? Or, because he had no intention of ending things with Revna?”
“Likely the latter.” He sighed as the latest memory of their little dragons faded. “Can you blame him?” He reeled her close and cupped the back of her neck beneath her hair. “I would feel the same if I found the kind of love he has with Revna. The kind of love you and I share.”
She stilled at him using that word so freely. It seemed like too much too soon while at the same time perfectly natural.
“Because it is.” He rubbed the pad of his thumb back and forth ever-so-gently on her neck, sending delicious shivers through her. “I loved you, Trinity. Deeply.” While understandable hesitation flickered in his eyes, it didn’t last long. “I think I still do.”
