I couldn't believe she had actually come here under the assumption we were just going to hand over our children and let her take them from us, never able to see them again. "It isn't up to you. I don't understand what you're not getting. I'm here to collect your children, and the four of you cannot stop me from doing so."

Kara was issuing a challenge.

One that I will face head on if I had to.

I may have just woken up, but there was no way I would allow this woman to come in here and tell me she was taking my children away.

Children I had only gotten a few months to spend time with. Children who Ivy, my mate, hadn't even properly been able to spend time with because of her current situation.

God knows what will happen when she wakes up and sees that so much time has passed.

"Look, there has to be something, some type of agreement that we can come up with. Something that Odin will make an exception for. Give us time. At least let us spend the first eighteen years of their life with them, and then by that point, when they're adults, if they need to go there, then so be it."

My response made her hesitate, her fingers running over her jawline as she seemed to ponder over what I had said. "That might possibly work. From what the prophecy says, the children won't come into their powers properly until they turn eighteen."

"Talk to him then. See what he says. See if he would make this deal with us. Give us until they turn eighteen." I was all but begging her to agree, and after a moment of silence, she nodded.

my answer. Until then, you may continue to have

a sense of relief was over me the moment Kara turned and made her way from our home. We were safe for now, and hopefully, Odin would agree to

softly as

doesn't matter right now. At

my attention to my brothers,

did you just do?" James

made sure she didn't take

feet with his fists clenched at his sides. "How the fuck

even know

I snapped

where

had nothing else to say to them. In the end, I

it would give us eighteen years to try to find a way out of the deal. To try to change their minds so that our children

lying when she said we couldn't

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