Page 22 of Battle of Witches
“Remember when I said your growing stupidity keeps surprising me?” Kaine said. “Perhaps you need this situation explained to you. You’re sweaty and twitchy, which means you’re detoxing. You aren’t going to get whatever nasty shit you’re taking in here. You aren’t even going to get a substitute. They toss the cells for contraband every day. People can’t even get a proper batch of toilet hooch brewed without getting caught.
“And just to toss a little extra shit on your day, I saw you over those two dead freshmen myself, and I can call plenty of witnesses, including two gods as witnesses. So, you’re going to jail for a very long time. Newsflash, turd bird, no one has ever broken out of a supernatural prison before.”
Valentine just crossed his arms and smirked.
“I’d like my lawyer now.”
I never saw Bjorn go rigid like he was getting a vision, but that didn’t mean shit. Bjorn could have seen a whole shit-load of random, inconsequential things about my future and not said anything. Could he tell me when my period was going to be stupid and come early, so I could plan better? That would be seriously handy.
I almost didn’t notice, but Bjorn gave Kaine this little look. I couldn’t tell if it was a good look or a bad look, but he sawsomething,and I needed all the details.
Chapter18
Bjorn
I’d only met Valentine once, but I figured he had at least a few redeeming qualities if Ravyn dated him. She said several times, looking back, that she was blinded by her fascination with his job, but I figured he at least had a few things going for him.
Isawa lot while he was pretending to be the big, bad wolf in that interrogation room. My girlfriend mustseriouslyhave a kink for cursed relics if she kept him around. And now I needed to figure out how to get my hands on some really nasty shit for her to play with because that’s just what Viking men did for their women.
Kaine didn’t even speak to me as soon as we stepped out of the interrogation room and started into the room everyone else was in. I think everyone wanted to know if I saw something important, but he whipped out his cell phone to call someone.
"How was the party, kid? Do you need Loki to come to get you?”
Oh, man. Loki would justadorehearing Kaine treating him like one of those ride-share apps with his god powers. He’d either be offended or think it was hilarious. He’d happily go get her and make a big show about it if it was his idea. Loki tended to be overly helpful or a complete dick about it.
Kaine wrapped up his conversation and was seriously about to walk in there and ask Loki to magically portal his whelp here. It was probably a good idea based on what I saw when I was in the same room as Valentine. Asfrid didn’t ask him to kidnap a teenage witch. He’d done that on his own. Asfrid wouldn’t be after Beyla, but Valentine had made a few friends in the two months we couldn’t find them. As soon as Kaine opened the door, he brought it up.
“I hate to ask, but can you pick Beyla up? She could get a ride home, but I don’t trust there isn’t someone else after her, and she said she got some cool points arriving at that party with Loki.”
That was also another way to get Loki to do a favor. Kissing his assalwaysworked, especially if it came from someone who never made it a point to do that. I had no idea why Loki yelled and pumped his fist in the air.
“Ha! See? You should be giving meextraboobs instead of taking them away for two weeks. I want extra boobs, Ravyn.”
Ravyn crossed her arms and glared at Loki.
“You’d better not mean giving me four tits, Loki.”
Based on his reaction, that wasn’t what he was planning, but the idea intrigued him now that Ravyn had put that out into the universe.
“Keep your tit fetishes out of my jail. Go get my kid so we can find out if Bjorn saw something.”
Loki disappeared, and I honestly saw a lot. I was still processing a good bit of it. We needed to get to Asfrid soon because I knew her big plan and why she hadn’t done it back in our time. Loki came back with Beyla quite fast. I was guessing he didn’t make his exit as grandly as he made his entrance.
“I’ve got four boobs riding on this, kid. Tell my girlfriend I didn’t embarrass you.”
“That’s gross, and you totally did at first, but then everyone thought it was pretty cool, and a few girls came and found me to thank me after you threatened divine justice for anyone who didn’t know what no meant because two guys who fit that description left the party after you said that.”
“See? Four boobs. Think about it.”
“Forget my boobs for a minute. I want to know what Bjorn saw.”
“I agree,” Sleipnir said. “Though, it’s pretty impossible to forget those breasts.”
“Men are so gross,” Beyla said, wrinkling her nose. “You’re supposed to be helping catch bad guys, and all you can think about is boobs.”
“That’s good,” Kaine said. “Keep thinking men are gross for the rest of your life.”
I was about to burst if I didn’t get to tell everyone what I saw. Loki and Sleipnir had always been breast men, and I preferred a nice ass. Ravyn wasn’t lacking in either, but Loki could go on forever about boobs, especially if it was a pair he was fond of and had the idea in his head he could double the fun. After what Beyla’s human boyfriend did to her, I was also sure Kaine could go all night trying to convince her never to date again.
