FOUR
BJARNI
Well, s**t.
I exchanged a look with Grim on my right and knew his tight jaw reflected my own grinding of teeth.
Give Loki to this pompous a*s? If the Allfather thought we’d sell out our own dad, he’d truly gone senile like Annabel had shouted before Modi shut her up. Of course, it didn’t much matter what we agreed to, so long as the old fool let us leave unharmed.
Coming to Asgard had been a mistake. There were Jotunn healers we could have persuaded with coin to care for Magni’s injuries, and there were more places in the nine realms to hide from Surtr than Asgard. There’d been bad blood between us and these Aesir pricks for eons, but going so far as to have us executed for our father's supposed crimes? That was a new development.
But I supposed it’s what happened when yo
