Just as Lei had said, there was no way that he would have guessed who was standing outside. Freya, in all of her goddess glory, stood behind a wave of more mercenaries coming in. With just a glance, he counted at least another thirty men coming to attack Ayah. It didn’t make sense. Why would the goddess herself weigh within the balance? She had already made sure that he understood that he was supposed to keep Ayah safe for seven days and then kill her, something that he was not going to do. But if she was now sending a multitude of enemies his way, she was now stacking the odds against him. What could this all mean?“That bitch, she lied,” Valerie said as she exploded into the room. “What the hell is she doing here? We agreed that if she took my apple that she couldn’t use it against us.”“Obviously Freya’s not above intervening or going against a pact. If that’s the case, then she shouldn’t expect for us to go with it either,” Lei returned, his face cruel, even more so with his evil smile.“No,”
