Chapter 9

Adams waited at the driver’s seat patiently humming to himself when all of a sudden, the door burst opened, startling him.

“Oh mine! Ichabod! You almost gave me a fit! Why were you back so....” He kept quiet as he recognized the twitched face and the cyan eyes. In a low growl, Odin ordered, “drive!”

“Okay.” Adams said without further ado and switched on the engine.

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He got off the car, slamming the door after him before walking into the house in a dominant movement. Adams watched him enter the house before he got off and walked after him. He wondered what had happened but he knew for sure that Odin must have messed things up. When he got inside, he met him pouring himself a drink. Adam stayed further back before asking.

“What happened, Odin?”

“That moron wouldn’t listen to me!” Odin growled, slamming the bottom of the cup against the table. “He just has this insane attitude of disobeying me. I knew it was Denis but he wouldn’t believe me! He messed things up for himself not for me!”

“I don’t understand, Denis? You mean his wife, was the one you saw, thought she was dead.”

Odin graced his butler with a fiery glance and grumbled, “Adam you are too old and you are too slow for my liking, didn’t you get the little logic?” He hissed and his lips twisted in a dangerous smile. “Denis’ descendant, reincarnation....how sweet. It should be nice killing her again....” He laughed sardonically.

“But you are not supposed to be here during the day, you are only to come out in the night.”

Odin sighed with his lips still bearing the wicked smiled. “Dear old Adam, you should thank Ichabod for that, he is getting weaker by the day and I am getting stronger every minute.” He shrugged proudly, “I can come out anytime he showed an emotional weakness, I just take over.

 Damn the four months that I have to wait, I could have had that lady right there that instant. Just imagine digging my fangs into the fleshy part of her neck...delish isn’t it?”

Unaware of Adam who had gotten so close to him. By the time he turned around, it was too late, Adam bashed his head with a stick. He felt woozy all of a sudden, he knew he was losing his consciousness but not without doing this. He grabbed Adam by the neck and snarled at him, “how dare you!” before falling into a total blackness.

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Adam counted the time until it was exactly ten minutes later when Ichabod shouted from his deep sleep where he lay on the floor. He put a hand to his head which was banging so hard. Adam passed him a bag of ice which he held to his head while he managed to stand up.

“Are you okay?” Adam asked.

“Yea, I will be.” Ichabod replied in his normal voice before sitting down.

“Odin told me what happened, Denis was the lady? Is that true?”

Ichabod nodded. It was stupid but there was no way he could explain that to him. He couldn’t even understand.

“How is that possible?”

“I don’t know Adams, I don’t think Odin knows either.”

“Odin mentioned reincarnation, so it’s possible. “

“Then that is fucked up. How do I behave around her? I killed this woman in my other life!”

“You killed another version of her Ichabod, not her. This is fate, fate has brought you both together again. Odin knows you are getting weaker by the minute. You need to be able to control him.”

“I know Adams, I also need to get that job, it really needs to click. One thing that is certain is that Odin won’t touch her until the full moon. He can’t touch her but he can mess things up for me. I don’t want that.”

“Yes but, it is risky if you can’t control him. Getting closer to that woman will be really risky you know. Your ring can barely contain him any longer, We need something stronger,”

“So what do we do?”

“I might know someone, she deals with supernatural stuff like this, she might be able to help us.”