And Then There Were Four (Lilith Carrie)

Chapter 114: Bring Him Back

Staring up at the eyes of the man who stepped through the portal, my ears almost went deaf from what he had said. Not only did he

say he was Odin… as in the freaking God of Gods… but he was also my fucking dad.

“What are you talking about?” I was a chaotic mess, and as the tears flowed freely down my face, I tried to wrap my mind around what had happened. The war might have been over, but the problem was Damian was gone.

With him gone, it had all been for nothing.

My heart was absolutely broken.

“I mean exactly what I said, my daughter. I am your actual father, though the circumstances behind that are not as you would expect.”

“So you’re telling me that my father is actually a God and the man Zane, who had proclaimed to be my father, wasn’t?” I asked with confusion. There was no way this was possible, that I was the daughter of Odin.

He stared at me for a moment before Frigga nudged him, catching his attention. No words came from her mouth, but instead, she nodded to Damian and cocked an expectant brow.

“Of course, dear,” he replied under his breath before turning and making his way toward Damian.

I wasn’t quite sure what they were planning on doing, but Odin wasted no time in kneeling at Damian’s side, his eyes gazing over

the wound on Damian’s neck with concern. “Please, don’t take him from me.”

My words caused him to turn his gaze towards me with furrowed brows. “Your mate has not passed over into the land of the dead yet. His spirit still lingers here with us now. I can heal his wounds, but it is up to you and his brothers to bring him back.”

“Bring him back? We can do that?” James’s voice said in shock.

Turning my gaze behind me, I looked at my three mates, who had all shifted back. They stared with tears in their eyes, and hope on their faces. Never had I seen them this upset before, but Damian was their brother.

He was the person they had always looked up to.

“Yes, my children, you can bring your brother back. But it is also down to him if he wishes to return. He may be here in spirit among us, but his will is what will drive him to stay with you.”

Nothing but riddles floated in the air between us all. I wasn’t quite sure whether we could make it happen, but if we had to, I would do whatever it took to bring him back to me.

back. I will do it even if it takes every ounce of

his head, bending down towards Damien’s lifeless body. He waved his hand over the wound on Damien’s neck, and instantly had healed. I was

of for everything that he has done here. If it had not been for the strength of you and your mates, none

possible, but I

is it? I will do anything to make sure that I have my mate back,”

come back through who isn’t supposed to be here. It was done before, but it will need to be done again,” he replied as he looked at Frigga. “As much as we would love to be able to come and go…. we cannot. It isn’t safe for the human realm to mingle with our

mortal realm to be able to withstand it. We had our own issues here, and while the Council members who had come here

packs without Alpha’s and

We would have to be ready. We would have to

As soon as you leave, I will close the portal and seal

been cast back and was now their problem to bear. I, however, was left with nothing

let my celestial orbs take in the shimmering portal, and with a wave of my hand, I closed and sealed it forever. Never

eyes back toward Damian, a sob escaped my throat as I came closer and brushed the hair from his face. “My love, I know that you can hear me. Odin said that you were here with me in spirit, and I want you to know that I need you. We all

do this, we need to do it soon,” Hale said softly as he knelt down at my side, staring

wasn’t sure how I was supposed to bring him back, but somewhere deep inside me, I felt like

was something that I could use to give him

going to happen to us, but it could be painful. I just need you to bear with me… this is for

was being asked of them. “To give life, I must take life. I

deep within myself. The darkness that had once been laying under my skin floated freely, and within

pull the light towards me. How I felt about him, the love that I had for him and his brothers, I pulled every ounce of it

my eyes flew open, I saw the swirling mass of blue and white auras coming from my mates and I. The essence of

only life that we had to give Damian to bring him back

would save him… and bind

“I love you, Damian.”

throat. The pain was unlike anything I had ever felt before, and with one final, death-stricken scream, I shove the last of what I had straight at Damian watching his body glow with a light I had never seen

was simply something else, but slowly slipped into the darkness. Watching Damian’s body fade from my sight like

to me. I can’t do this

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Hale.

of us and into her before pushing it, projecting it into Damian. It was like the life had

us, and we were left

in our minds, no longer hiding from the