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“It doesn’t affect how glad we are to have you back,” his mom said quickly. “It’s just—”
“Just something you should have told me hours ago.” He stood smoothly, lifting me with him and steadying me on my feet. “Thanks for dinner. I’ll let you know when we’ve chosen a place to live, in case you’d like to visit at some point.”
“I’m sorry,” Rigga said quietly.
“You never wanted to lead,” Sevva argued.
Odin didn’t bother looking back at her as he pulled me into his arms. He wanted to transport us—I knew that without asking him. And as much as I wanted to tell him no, I couldn’t. We needed to get out of there.
So I gave him a light squeeze, and the room disappeared around us.
Chapter10
I expectedOdin to take us back to his cave—our cave—so when I opened my eyes and found us in the middle of the wind fae lands, it caught me off guard and made the underground travel even more stressful than usual.
Sucking in deep breaths of air, I looked around a city of rubble and fae. Massive trees were staggered around us, with gorgeous long, flowing branches that were always blowing in the breeze.
The fae around us were blowing rubble, moving it through the city in groups of five or six fae. Because the destroyed city stretched as far as I could see, I figured it was way too big for Storm to move everything himself.
A few of the wind fae around us waved or smiled when they saw us. That made me feel better about… everything. Mainly the amount of hatred the earth fae apparently felt toward me and my mate.
“Who destroyed this city?” I asked Odin.
He seemed quieter than usual when he admitted, “I don’t know. I see some scorching, but the trees aren’t burnt. If I had to guess, Storm and Flame did the damage together.”
Damn.
“How long were you guys wandering until your people trapped you?”
“I was insane.” He shrugged. “I have no idea.”
Right.
I glanced at him sideways before we strode up to one of the fae. I didn’t recognize the fae male, of course; I didn’t recognize any of them.
“Are the kings here?” Odin asked the man.
“Yes. The other kings are on the south side of the city; they’ve started rebuilding there already.”
“I am no longer one of them. The earth fae have put a child on the throne,” Odin said smoothly.
Almost coldly.
I looked at him again as he thanked the man and then led me away, his grip on my hand looser than I would’ve expected given the dark expression he wore.
“Are you okay?” I asked him.
Though we’d talked about everything, become friends, and sealed our mate bond, we’d never attempted a relationship outside of the bubble of our cave.
Things were different when we factored in the people who would be around us, and whatever jobs we ended up choosing. Or… whatever we were supposed to do with our time. Especially now that Odin wasn’t the king anymore.
And I didn’t know exactly what we were or where we stood with all of those changes.
“I’m fine,” Odin said, though his eyes weren’t on mine as we started walking through the city.
I didn’t know what to say, or how to tell him that I didn’t believe him without driving a wedge between us.
So… I said nothing.
