And Then There Were Four (Lilith Carrie)

Chapter 168

Chapter 168: An Heir to a New Dynasty
Cassie.
Death was something I hadn’t expected to see so soon. Yet as my grandfather explained I was dead, or at least my mortal life was, I couldn’t help but suddenly feel a hollow pit within my stomach that screamed at me to say everything I wish I could have said.
They never tell you when you’re at the end, you’re filled with regret over everything you wish you would have done differently. It doesn’t matter if you lived a good life or if you lived a bad one. Everyone must feel some kind of regret in some way or another.
“How can I be dead? I wasn’t supposed to die.”
Nodding his head once more, he held out his hand and gestured for me to follow him. But as I gazed at my brother and my friends, who were staring at Odin in confusion, I couldn’t help but wonder if there was somewhere else I was supposed to be.
“Are you even fucking listening to me?” my brother snapped and, Silas laid my body on the floor and stood to his feet, grasping my brother’s arm to stop him from approaching Odin.
“Don’t. He’s trying to help her,” Silas said softly trying to make my brother understand what was going on.
As Pollux knitted his brows together, two guards entered

through the same hole my grandfather had come in and quickly went to my body, collecting it from the floor before carrying it out.
Disbelief fell upon the faces of Trixie, Sansa, and my brother. But with a gentle gesture, Silas ushered for them to leave as he stayed back watching them go. I wasn’t sure what it was that Silas was doing, but when his eyes cast to the space where I stood—I could have sworn he was looking right at me.
“Everything will be okay, Cassie.’
I didn’t have the slightest clue what it was he was talking about, but before I could open my mouth to ask, Odin placed his hand within mine and gestured for me to follow him. “You know, I never thought this day would come so soon…”
The trailed-off statement he made had my mind spinning, and as we stepped through the rubble near the opening, I tried to make sure I didn’t trip over it. Even though I saw my body on the floor, and I was told I had died, I didn’t feel any different than when I was alive.
“None of this makes sense. Why am I still here if l’ m dead?” I asked as we stepped into the clearing outside. My eyes scanned my surroundings in shock as everything around me seemed so much brighter and clearer than I had remembered iVbeing.
“Because technically, you’re not dead.
Odin’s comment made no sense. You couldn’t be dead, and not dead. That was physically impossible, wasn’t it? “What do you mean… you either are or you’re not.”

“Typically, yes,” he replied, our footsteps in sync as he pulled me forward across the courtyard of the school and toward the direction of the arena. I hadn’t realized the underground area I had been in before was beneath the schools, but looking around now, it made sense.
The school, from what I had learned since my time being here, was one of the oldest buildings in this realm. It was the first place in which Odin and the other gods and taken up home, but over the years, as more half-breed children were born, they built their new home and transformed this one into a school that could protect and teach the children.
“I’m guessing I’m not a typical situation then?”
Laughter echoed from him as he shook his head. “No, you most certainly are not.”
‘So what am I then?” I asked, my feet hitting the vibrant green grass with ease before Odin finally let my hand go, and turned to face me.
“You are part of me, Cassie. My• blood runs through your veins, and because of that, you have a celestial soul. It was bound in your shifter body, but when you were injured, the shifter side of you died.”

The shi ter side of me died? What the hell did that mean? Am I no a shifter anymore?
“That’s not possible… that would mean l’ m I gasped, thinking of what he was saying. I wouldn’t technically be human, because that wouldn’t be possible, but as he stared at me, I watched his smile fall.
19 “It is possible, and you’re not human, child—well, not ex-actly. You actually have a choice to make right now, and it’s completely up to you what you want to do. You can remain as you are and rest in Asgard for eternity, but be a soul in limbo, or you can accept the proclamation of being my heir apparent.”
Odin was a god and for him to need an heir didn’t make sense. It wasn’t like he would eventually die or anything. Unless there was something I missed in my history classes that I should be worried about. “You can’t die though.”
“No, I can’t.” He chuckled. “But one day, I hope to… retire, I guess is what you call it on earth.
“Retire? Is that even possible… you’re a god.
I was stating the obvious but as I watched his twinkling blue eyes stare at me with so much intensity, my heart wanted to burst from my chest. It wasn’t anything loving as one may think. I was nervous as hell to be around Odin, even if that wasn’t something I would admit to my brother or anyone else.
I am a god, but eventually, I would like the chance to teach someone else to do what I do. To rule by my side, but as my successor.” I wasn’t sure what to say to what Odin proclaimed, I had never thought it possible, but yet standing here now talking to him, I realized he wasn’t the egotistical man I thought he was.
He was far more caring, and the guilt of what happened to me still lingered in his eyes.
“Can I ever go home?” It was the one question I had that I
needed answered, and with a sigh, he shook his head no.
‘Unfortunately, Cassie, you’ re bound to this realm now.
However, if you accept my offer, you can go to visit your fami ly, eventually. Of course, it would only be for a short time but you could go and visit them or any of the other realms.”
To hear I would never be able to go home again brought tears to my eyes. I didn’t want to rule a realm or anything like that, but the thought of never seeing my family again was a thought I couldn’t manage. “Okay… but I need something if I
agree.”
Glancing up into his eyes, he hesitated for a moment. “Okay… and what would that be?”
“My little brother…”
“The one who’s sick?” he said cutting mid-sentence.
“Yeah, the one who’s sick. I want him cured… Pollux will return home one day, but my mother will never be able to live through losing two of her children. Can you heal him?”
Odin paused for a moment as if contemplating what I asked of him, but after a moment, he nodded. “Okay, I will see to it our healers tend to him.”
“Wait… you have healers? You could have healed him this entire time?!”
I wasn’t sure whether to be shocked or angry that he could have healed my little brother a long time ago and didn’t. Yet, as he held his hand up shaking his head with a smile, I quickly found myself calming down.
“It isn’t that easy, Cassie. We don’t mess with fate, but I’m sure, under the circumstances, he would prefer to have you agree to be here over the fate of your little brother. He will
simply rewrite his future as he has done for so many others.”
Opening my mouth, I tried to find the words to explain my shock over hearing Odin talk about fate as if it was an actual person, but by the look on his face and the amusement in the corners of his wrinkled eyes, I already had my answer.
“There is really someone out there who decides our futures… that’s brilliant.” Sarcasm dripped from my remark causing Odin to laugh a little harder than he had before.

more I felt crazy in my current situation. Odin as calm, his eyes cast from me toward the direction in which my brother had gone, and with a deep breath, he smiled at me. “We need to find your brother… all of your questions can be answered at a later time. I think you have had enough excitement for one day.’ I wasn’t sure why he needed to find Pollux, but Odin’s engifs? demeanor changed, and as it did, I realized that whatever was going on with me had to deal with my brother. Crossing the grassy field that laid outside the school, we headed towards the backside of the gardens that surrounded the main building of Asgard. The same building in which the gods resided, but also where my room and Pollux’ s room were. The moment

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