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“I didn’t know.”
“But you got a feeling when you met him, did you not?”
“I did, but I just figured he was putting off bad vibes.”
“Well, you’re safe since it wasn’t you who took his life.” He shifts his stare to Makayla, who’s inching closer to me. “And you, Makayla Elizabeth Ashbridge, will make one Fire Pit of a Valkyrie.”
He bends down and places his hand on Jeff’s chest, and both of them shimmer into the ether, leaving my ax to clatter to the tile.
I turn and face Makayla. “Are you okay?”
She touches a hand to her head. “Just a bump. Nothing I can’t handle.”
“I thought you were dead,” I say on a sigh.
“Don’t you want me dead?”
“I… Well… Yeah, I suppose I do. But not like that.”
“Viking, you should know something.”
“Don’t say it,” I snap. “Please don’t say you won’t go with me.”
“That’s know what I was going to say.”
“Oh?”
She shakes her head. “No. I was going to tell you that I love you. I was going to say that I’d be honored to transition to Valhalla and be by your side.”
“You said you needed time,” I remind her.
“And apparently, I didn’t need as much as I thought. We’re soulmates, what can I say?”
“Kára was right,” I observe.
“About?”
“She’s been telling me from the moment I was transitioned to Valhalla that I would have my wife again, and here you are.”
“Here I am.”
I lean forward, cupping her cheeks, and softly kiss the woman I’m destined to be with.
“I’ve loved you since the moment I saw you, and I will love you for eternity,” I say when I pull away.
“And I love you, Leif. More than life, and death, itself.”
Epilogue
VIKING
One month later…
“I’m having trouble reconciling the Odin I know with the one standing before me.”
Odin grin at me. I’ve been hesitant to come and see him since Makayla and I, and the VRMC brothers, transitioned to Valhalla. It didn’t help that I had to watch the love of my very long life and death die to get here, but I recognize that it couldn’t be helped.
“You once told me that a man’s word is all he has,” he reminds me. “Do you still believe that?”
