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“I’m not some sign from a god, Madalena. I’m just a Marine looking for his friends. If I die, they might end up as slaves for the rest of their lives. So, I need to win. Tell me what I have to do, or who I have to kill, to get through this alive.”
Something they were doing was working.
“Bored with you? Is he an idiot?”
Fuck all of you. I helped your daughter and her crew. I saved their lives when I was on death’s door. I keep telling all of you I didn’t want this, but none of you seem to care.
“Hot damn,” I gasped as I looked at the pile of dead creatures surrounding the tree.
I wasn’t going to let any of them win. I wasn’t going to let them rule the galaxy. I was going to find my women.
Svartalfheim threat completed.
“Prime Valkyrie submitted to you. You heal from cuts and bullets. You on Odin’s rite. You will be King of Vaish and then Lord of the Nordar. We will submit to you, and our honor will be restored.”
Persephone. She spun through the air like a stunt plane and then lobbed another round of plasma down toward the ground.
“These fuckers don’t look like the fuckers I want to fucking kill,”
“Get. The. Fuck. Out. Of. My. Head!” I threw my toothbrush down in the sink, and she flinched. “I told you I didn’t want this! I didn’t want you to submit to me! I didn’t want to go in this rite! I just wanted to help you and then save my friends!”
Valkyrie do not submit to another man unless he has beaten her in combat, or performed an act of heroism fit for the gods. I am the Prime Valkyrie. When I submitted to you, it was proof to the gods and our people that I have finally met a man who is my better. It is the highest honor that can be given, yet you do not care. You send me away. You tell me you do not love me. You tell me you prefer other women, but you are the only man I will ever want.”
“Ganymede,” I said. “Dad died in the Saturn Wars, so my mom raised my sister and me.”
“The tiger race. They are an advanced race that served the Draugr. I had wondered why the two species worked together, but I wonder if it was more that the Draugr had them as thralls or slaves because they feared them as enemies.”
“I’ve told you this thing is a piece of shit, but that’s doing a disservice to shit.
“Okay,” Zea agreed. “I just suddenly had this fear that you got a whole new crew of beautiful women, but that is crazy talk.” “Yeah…” I said. “Wait. When you say ‘yeah’ like that, it makes me think--”
I couldn’t speak because of my purring, and I cradled the vampire woman in my left arm so that I could pull Zea to me.
