Tricked by the Enemy

Loki They call me a god.A trickster.A monster. But what am I now, stripped of power, broken and bleeding in the dirt of a mortal king’s hunting ground? A man. A man who should have died. She found me. Marion. Daughter of England’s tyrant king. A witch in hiding, fire in her veins, fury in her eyes. She saved me when I should have burned. She hid me beneath her father’s nose. And in doing so, she bound me to her. I swore off women. Desire makes fools of men—and I am no man’s fool. But this woman? She makes me furious. Every glance, every word, every time she dares defy me, it stokes a hunger I cannot smother. She says she hates me. Perhaps she does. Yet hatred blazes hot, and her flame calls to mine. So I give her a lie. A name that does not belong to me.Robin Hood. If she is the key to freedom from her father’s chains, I will use her. If her forbidden fire can restore what I have lost, I will claim it. And if she dares to love me—despite the trickster, despite the ruin—then she will bu