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The smaller male gripped his leg and looked up at me, expecting me to show him mercy.
They always do.
I sliced at him again—blood splattering my once clean and crisp robe, soaking into the red color like a designed pattern.
“The one who has your device is a diver!” The smaller male cried out. “We stole that thing you’re looking for from another dive team, it’s real, I swear it! We were going to sell it to you, but we just needed more money! That’s all.”
“Jo!”
“This diver has it? Where is he?” I asked, thankful for not having to do more. They brought this pain on themselves for trying to rob me.
“I’ll tell you everything if you let me and Jaxon go!” He cried. “I’ll tell you where he lives and how to get him here.”
“I’ll fucking kill you!” The blond thrashed himself about like a caged dragon, his fierce eyes on me as if he could tear me apart if we only released his restraints. I could tell he had tech implants, strength enhancers. He probably could give me a good fight if I freed him. But I wasn’t in the mood. All I wanted was the traveler’s rune to transport me home.
“Sir.” A Suit approached with a gun pointed at the blonde’s head.
“No. I need him alive.” I kneeled to speak to the smaller male who shivered in his blood. A stream of urine pooled around him. “Tell me more about this diver, and I’ll let you and your friend go.”
“You promise?!”
“You and your friend mean nothing to me. The one who has my property does. If you can deliver that person to me, then I’ll consider our deal done.”
“Don’t do it, Jo!” The blond cried out, and Gio gestured to the Suits to gag him.
“He has a shop in the neon's district underpass.”
“What does he look like?”
The smaller male looked to the blond and lowered his eyes, ashamed. “Jaxon has a holo picture of him.”
Gio shoved his hand into the blonde’s pockets and pulled from it a silver cord with a bulky oval locket dangling from the end and tossed it over to me. I opened the small clasp. The small light streamed out, displaying the holo of a man with full lips and almond eyes and black wild hair, the sun hitting them just right. My heart lurched like suddenly time sped forward like a vehicle going downhill too fast—that rush of adrenaline forcing the hairs on the back to rise and tingle to life. The pull, this was it, that feeling which led one to their fated one, but for a dwarf?!
“Do you know him?” Gio approached, concern etched in his features.
I breathed deep and swiftly closed the locket and stuffed it into the pocket of my inner coat. “Of course not. He’s a dwarf.” I then looked at the smaller male. “You mentioned getting him here?”
“Yeah, my brother can help me get Kal here.”
I reached for my phone and held it out for him to talk. “Get him here, now.”
CHAPTER FIVE
KAL
A loud banging at the door sent me on edge. I thought of my father resting upstairs and grabbed a small gun under the desk and peeked out the window into the rainy night.
“I’m closed!” I yelled at what looked like a man and woman around my age.
“This is Davi, Jaxon’s friend; he told you about me.” The man outside said.
“Show me some proof.”
The man held his forearm against the glass, showing off a tattoo of an ouroboros symbol with a trident through it. It was the same tattoo Jaxon had, and in the same spot. It wasn’t uncommon for dive teams to get tattoos together that represented their team. What are the odds that this guy got a tattoo just to trick me? Not likely as he would be a dead man. No dive team would tolerate someone who wasn’t a part of their group to sport their tattoo.
I unlocked the door, and he pushed his way inside, quickly disarming me. He combed his auburn hair into a poof at thetop, and the woman was mousy looking with brown-hair and enormous eyes.
“What the hell happened?” The man pointed an accusatory finger at me. He dressed like the typical punks around the lower levels of Jötun. Black and blacker and some silver chains to bring it all out.
