Page 28 of Thorulf
Long past done.
It had taken a great deal of self-restraint not engaging both Vicar and Loki earlier when they so ruthlessly lusted after Jade. Which told him that Vicar was by no means entirely his Sigdir self. His Múspellsheimr side was right there, hovering beneath the surface, getting away with far too much under the guise of his other half.
Enough Sigdir still existed, though. Otherwise, Vicar would have been even more forward. How could he not be considering how Jade had looked in her new outfit? Viking suited her. Every skin-hugging bit of clothing she’d worn suited her. He had never wanted to touch a woman so much. To grab the firm globes of her tight, well-rounded backside and steer her onto his willing and eager cock.
“Stop that,”Jade growled into his mind as Vicar replied to her earlier statement that no, he didn’t believe in coincidences. He suspected a higher power might have been involved in bringing them together.
“Stop what?”Thorulf replied to her innocently before focusing on his brother.“What higher power?”But he knew. He could feel Vicar’s distrust.“You think the enemy brought Jade and me together despite that same enemy so clearly eager to separate us in the end?”
“I think anything is possible.”Vicar issued a dark chuckle that wasallMúspellsheimr. “I also think it’s foolish to fantasize about what you want to do to a woman when she’s already yours for the taking.”
“Hell if I am,”Jade spat, but Thorulf heard the hesitation in her dragon’s inner voice. Worse yet, taking into account that his brother was right behind them, he caught her scent. A heady, feminine scent as exciting as the woman herself. She cursed and moved faster when he knew she’d been tempted to swing back and growl...then purr. Because she would have until he had her wailing in pleasure, regardless of their location and the presence of others.
Biting back a smile at her arousal, Thorulf flicked his tail in warning, missing his sibling's nose by inches, when Vicar rumbled with approval. It was one thing for Thorulf to drown in her scent, to imagine the possibilities. Another thing entirely for Vicar to do it.
“I’ll kill you,”he ground out, meaning every word. He loved his brother, but laying with Jade would be going too far. It would be unforgivable. So unforgivable that there would be no stopping his dragon’s reaction.
“Ahh,”his brother praised.“There’s so much of you coming out today that I approve of. A side I didn’t think you had in you.”
Again with that. As Loki had mentioned earlier, head seer Revna said similar words. Thorulf had an unexpected side to him. One more like Vicar’s Múspellsheimr half by the sounds of it.
Little more was said as they traveled several more hours before finally stopping in a multi-prong cave system not all that far from the exit. Jade shifted back almost immediately, clearly frustrated that her dragon had remained in an aroused state. One that had both Thorulf and Vicar equally uncomfortable, so they shifted back as well.
Meanwhile, Loki started a fire and manifested roasting meat while Dagr and Maya wandered off, giddy with the chance to finally be alone.
“No need to guess what they’re off to do.” Loki grinned and winked at Jade, enjoying himself. “If you find you can’t shake your current state, my offer still stands, little dragon.” Before Thorulf could say a thing, mainly tell him he better damn well not, Loki’s dark gaze slid his way. “We both know I’ll have her if I want her.”
“You mean you’ll have me if I allow it,” Jade grumbled. She eyed multiple tunnels stemming off their cave before she strode down one. “And I don’t want it.”
“Yet she does,” Loki murmured. He watched her until she left, then eyed Thorulf and Vicar. “Now the question is, which one of you will give it to her?”
“You would have us fight?” Thorulf shook his head sharply at Vicar when his brother made to follow her, then narrowed his eyes at Loki, trying to guess at his game. “Why, when we need to remain united right now, would you promote such discontent? Such sibling rivalry?”
“Have you not figured it out yet then, brother?” Understanding dawned in Vicar’s eyes. He issued a sly grin. “He’s trying to bring your naughty side to the surface. Trying to meet the man that purple dragon clearly knows, maybe even created.” He shrugged a shoulder. “Perhaps to achieve a better understanding of you.” His cunning gaze drifted from Thorulf to the exit. “Or perhaps as a means to bring the enemy to the door.”
“That’s an awful lot of speculation,” Loki mused, eyeing Vicar with what looked an awful lot like approval.
“Yet astute.” Thorulf nodded at Vicar, acknowledging that his brother had seen the truth of things. He scowled at Loki and shook his head before pursuing Jade, not because he craved her but because he feared for her safety. What kind of god was Loki that he would put her in harm’s way like this? That he would think nothing of using Thorulf as bait?
“A god we need to continue getting along with,”his father counseled, his telepathic voice welcome.
“I agree,”his stepmother Ava added. She might not be his birth mother, but he loved her dearly. She had been good to him over the years.
“How are you, Thorulf?”she asked. “We feel the fluctuations in you. The difference...”
When she trailed off, he realized just how off he was right now. How his mood wasn’t quite right.
“I’m fine.”He filled them in on everything that had happened so far.“I hope to find more answers at my lair. To finally see a truth that’s clearly been eluding me for far too long.”
“And Vicar is with you?”Ava asked, already knowing the answer. Her worried yet relieved question was understandable, though. Not only was he her biological son, but nowadays, Vicar rarely, if ever, left the Realm.
“He’s,”she hesitated, unsure, her trepidation unmistakable, “well?”
Thorulf frowned.“Can’t you feel him?”
“No,”Ava and Soren said at the same time.
“Not really,”Ava continued.“We feel a part of him.”
That had been happening for some time now. They couldn’t sense Vicar in his entirety. Everyone assumed it was because of his ever-fluctuating intensifying personalities but had no way to be sure.
“We also feel another,”his father continued.“A female seeking him out.”He hesitated, uncomfortable.“Hunting him.”
“Hunting Vicar, not me?”Thorulf stopped short.“Are you sure?”
He waited for a response, but there was none. His parents had left his mind because of a godly storm.
Though he debated going back, he knew Vicar was okay. He sensed him and Loki getting along just fine. Jade was another story, though. Her emotions were loud and distressed, her frustration so profound that he had no choice but to check on her. Make sure she was all right.
It turned out, however, when he joined her in a small but unique cave, it wasn’t quite her distress he’d sensed.