Free Lucid by A.K. Harris Page A

completed my task, and you have arrived home safely.” he finished giving me a wink.
    “Okay prince charming, I'll see you at school on Monday, go find yourself a damsel in distress to rescue why don't you.”
    “Prince charming doesn't rescue damsels in distress, we keep them from getting in trouble in the first place.” He replied with a backwards glance as he walked toward the street.
    “That's why I love knights,” I called after him. I could see his shoulders shaking and hear his laugh carried on the soft night breeze as he made his way down the street and out of sight.

Chapter 14
     
     
    “Come on Deegan, this is the third night we've been trying. It's obviously not working, so whatever you thought I was apparently I'm not. Just let me rest.” I spat out.
    Before my body could even begin to slouch down to the ground for a small rest, Deegan was snatching me up by my pajama shirt.
    “We don't have the time!”
    “It's my dream and I have all the time I want!” I shouted back at him.
    With all my strength I shoved against his taut arms. When his hands let go I wasn't able to get purchase and I collapsed to the hard dirt ground. Deegan just stood above me looking down with his barely contained anger. He had gone from being sweet and honest to being a total hard ass. When I just returned his glare with silence and made no attempt to get up, his hard face finally faltered.
    He slowly lowered himself to the ground in front of me, resting his elbows on his knees. He was fidgeting under my gaze now, like he hadn't just been acting like an ass for the past three nights. I hated it when the kind Deegan wasn't here and I got the ass end of his personality.
    “Mercy... I know you don't get where I'm coming from...” He took my hands in his and his thumbs began gently running slow circles across the backs of my hands. I couldn't keep up. One moment I was just wishing for the black to swallow me whole, and the next he was so sweet I know I wouldn't be able to survive if I had to part from this kindness.
    “You could start by not being so bi-polar,” I offered with a smile.
    He just chuckled and shook his head, his adorable dimple showing through.
    “After I turned seven I was raised in a very strict house. If there was a problem it was usually fixed by force... Sometimes I fall back into that. Especially when I am anxious. Try not to fault me to hard for it okay?” he responded with a chuckle. “How about we take a break and try again in a bit?”
    “Yeah,” I adjusted myself so I was sitting comfortably against a fallen tree. “How about you tell me a story”
    “A story?” He asked curiously. “About what?”
    “A story about Hati... and what a giant Norse wolf has to do with you Mr. Hellhound.”
    He regarded me curiously for a moment before he settled in next to me. I could feel the hum of his life coming through the contact between our bodies. He was warm... so warm. And he seemed content to leave that contact between us, as we leaned into each other.
    “Well...” He started softly, glancing at me from under his thick black lashes. “Fenrir had two sons. Skoll and Hati. Both giant wolves, since their mother was a giant, and Fenrir was a wolf.”
    “Mhmm...” I murmured softly, leaning against him to encourage him to continue speaking.
    “Skoll, who chased the sun through the sky, was more giant than wolf... and his brother Hati, who chased the moon. He was more wolf than giant... Now Skoll and Hati... they had many children, with human women... and that is supposedly how a breed of hellhounds was born. There are others mind you of different descent. But where I come from we are born from the bloodline of either Skoll or Hati...”
    “What's the difference... being a son of Skoll or a son of Hati?”
    “Well...” My head was resting against his shoulder and slowly he lowered his head onto mine. We were almost snuggling... I would definitely count this as one of the best moments of my life. “If