I blinked.
Oh shit. I’d read that in both of those books. You made a deal with a Raider, you went back on it, you regretted it.
Big time.
Shit!
His hand was now wrapped around the back of my neck and he held me still while he leaned into me.
Once there and he had captured my gaze, he said quietly, “You have ten minutes to prepare yourself and meet me up there. We will see how it goes as to whether we guard against conceiving or, perhaps, forget.”
Ho boy. I knew what that meant because I figured that meant the same thing on both worlds.
“You haven’t had pie,” I pointed out in an attempt to stall.
“We’ll have it later…” he paused and grinned. “Maybe. We might be too busy; we might need sustenance to keep going.”
Ho boy!
“Frey –” I whispered.
He cut me off. “You now have nine minutes, Finnie.”
Shit! Shit! Shit!
“That wasn’t a minute,” I argued.
He pressed his lips together but I knew what it meant this time because his eyes were so close, I saw them dancing.
Then he warned softly and effectively with one word, “Finnie.”
I stared into his eyes.
Then I saw there a clear indication that there was no way I could delay.
This was happening and it was my choice whether it happened in the loft or on the farm table. Since that was my only choice, I definitely needed the loft.
So that was why I muttered, “Oh, all right.”
That got me another grin. It also loosened his arms. And this meant I scrambled off his lap and hurried out of the room trying not to look like I was hurrying. I hit the trunks, found what I was looking for and went to the bathroom space not bothering with the lock on the door because he could easily break it down if he had a mind to.
Only then did I start hyperventilating.
Chapter Eight
Elves
I stood in the bathroom space thinking that I really needed fifteen meals.
Maybe twenty-one.
Or, perhaps ninety.
I was so not ready for this.
And I had been in the bathroom way longer than nine minutes. I was pretty certain Frey was going to bust down the door any second.
I totally shouldn’t have lost it at dinner and thus made Frey skip pie.