Page 14 of Vicar
Chapter Seven
TRINITY HAD DREADEDevery moment leading up to leaving the cave but knew she had no choice. Not only because of Loki but because she had a role to play in all this, whether she liked it or not. It wasn’t about her. There was a bigger picture.
Saving humanity and helping her sisters and their mates.
So she did her best not to avoid Vicar the next morning but to speak with him, however briefly. She’d already spoken to him telepathically the night before by mistake, and he’d caught it. Not that she had acknowledged it. Had she, they would have had a discussion about Jade she wasn’t ready for. One she would just as soon not have but knew if she and Vicar were destined for each other, would happen eventually.
She rolled her shoulders and kept any angst she felt from her face as they headed outside. Truth be told, she was more bothered by Vicar hitting on Jade than she let on. More bothered by his lifestyle with women overall. Last night had been a perfect example of what she could expect when his Múspellsheimr side surfaced. She truly believed all four of those Viking women would have shunned Loki’s invitation if Vicar had given them half a chance. She didn’t doubt it for a moment.
The feeling she’d had when she and Tor rejoined the others last night had been pitiful. Pure jealousy. Something she had never felt before this all started. Then red-hot anger she’d had to bury fast. Violent emotions she tempered before anyone caught them.
“Are you okay?” Jade asked when she joined her. “You look good, but I’m sensing some turbulence beneath the surface.”
“No turbulence,” she fibbed, more overwhelmed by the moment. Not by the whole Jade-Vicar thing but by her surroundings. Since the moment she’d stepped foot outside the Alfheim cave, things had started to look familiar.
Now it was just uncanny.
“No turbulence, my ass.” Jade narrowed her eyes. “I’m sensing frustration at Vicar...” Her eyes narrowed even more. “Oh shoot...and at me.”
“Can you blame me?” Trinity knew just what mountains she would see as they headed deeper into the woodland. “You weren’t all that considerate before my arrival.”
“Considerate,” Jade mouthed. Rather than lash back like she might have in the past, she sighed and nodded. “You’re right. You really are.” She stopped Trinity and gave her the puppy-dog eyes she’d been good at since they were kids. “And I’m sorry, sis.Sosorry.” She shook her head. “I never should have hit on Vicar. Whether I was trying to make Thorulf jealous or not, there’s no excuse for it. Total dick move.” She flinched. “Not Vicar's dick. I swear. He didn’t get aroused once, and I sure as hell didn’t go anywhere near it.” She flinched again. “Well, yeah, I sat on it on his lap, but it was totally flaccid. Zero response.” More puppy dog eyes. “Please forgive?”
If anyone could overshare in a really bad way, it was Jade.
“I don’t care what you did on Vicar’s dick,” she replied before flinching herself and walking on. This conversation needed to end.Now.“It’s over, Jade. Let it go.”
Was it, though? Moments ago, she would have said absolutely not. Now? It seemed less and less trivial with every step she took.
Or, more specifically, less of a threat.
“Um,okay.” Jade caught up with her. “Are you sure? Because I wouldn’t be so good with it if I were—”
“I’m fine.” She frowned, feeling less like herself by the moment. “You did what you had to do at the time, and I applaud it.”
Both stopped short at that.Whathad she just said?
