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129 Let Off A Chain
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2026-03-24 22:04:31
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My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian 221 The Most True Thing
Lyra"She knows you miss her, Lyra. She does not need to be told."It was the answer I had been afraid of. My mother would have invented messages. She would have invented affection. She would have invented anything I wanted if Sera had asked enough for the invention to be needed. She did not invent anything tonight.I drew in a breath."Does she still seem like Sera, Mama.""What does that mean.""I don't know what it means." I had to stop. "I have been trying to picture her for five weeks. Every time I try, I see her at fifteen at the breakfast table refusing the eggs. I know that's the wrong face. I just want to know what's right."She set the cup on the side table.Her hand had a small tremor as she set it down."Why do you keep asking about Sera, Lyra."Her voice came out flatter than she meant it. I heard the moment she heard herself."Mama —""Sera is fine. Sera is — Sera. She does not need either of us anymore. She has what she wants. Can we please talk about something else."T
My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian 220 She Knows You Miss Her
LyraMy hair had been up and down twice tonight before the maid knocked, and I knew before she said it that the carriage had come through the south gate.Three taps, even and polite. She did not wait for an answer. She opened the door a hand's width and put her head through."My lady. The Queen's carriage came through the south gate."The pin fell out of my mouth and I was on my feet before I had decided to be.For five weeks I had sat at this vanity every evening, putting my hair up and waiting for someone to come and tell me what she had just told me. I had pictured the moment so many times that the words sounded slightly off in real air."Where is she.""Her chambers, my lady. She's just gone up."I left the brush on the vanity and the cooling tray of dinner on the writing desk. The pair of shoes I had not yet decided between stayed where I had set them. I went out past the senior maid and into the corridor.The corridor was lit for evening, lamps every six paces, the soft kind, no
My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian 219 Primitive North
Sera"I am not going to feed something that is going to feast on me on a slow day."He laughed.The sound bounced off the stone behind us. The wolves in the dark lifted their heads at the sound — the redistribution of weight, the shift of bodies on stone. The wolf at our feet did something with its tail against the floor that was the first wolf-thing I had seen it do. A slow, single thump.Yvara was already throwing the next carcass. Without raising her eyes she said: "My Luna's smart."Fenris's hand had come around me. He started me back from the gate, toward the corridor we had come down. We climbed.We were halfway up the second stair when I asked."Why don't we have rifles."He did not answer for a few steps."Old law," he said."What old law.""There has been a generational law in these lands. No human invention crosses the border. No rifles. No black powder. No engines. No clocks past a certain size. A few other things. The list is long.""Why."Two more steps."I do not know."
My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian 218 Black Corruption
SeraI felt the iron under my hand."How did you cub them, then. If the bite is what it is.""That is the long answer." Fenris's voice came down a notch. "Once a Northern wolf has gone rogue and gone out, there is almost no getting him back. The wild ones do not return the way the turned ones from our own do. The pack is not their pack anymore. The only thing that has ever worked on a wild one is a hunter who does not mind dying. We have not had many of those. The last Alpha to bring a wild Northern rogue back inside Ironmaw walls and bind him was three of my fathers ago. He came out of the hunt with a bite on the upper thigh. Took him into a fever for nine days. He kept the leg. He did not walk on it the same after. We tell the children that story so they know not to volunteer for it.""And you," I said. "You went looking."He did not answer. He looked at Yvara.Yvara was opening the next carcass with a short knife. She did not raise her eyes. She said: "Twelve of us went. We brought
My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian 217 Northern Toxin
SeraThe fur was black. Coal-black. Not dark grey that read black in low light, not deep brown that did the same. Black. Not one strand of any other color in the whole coat. You usually see something on a wolf — a streak, a salt at the muzzle, a cinnamon along a flank. There was nothing.The eyes were yellow. Not the amber-yellow of a Northern wolf in his own body. Pale yellow, with whites that were heavily bloodshot — a hot, used-up pink that did not belong on an animal in working condition. The pupils were too wide for the lamplight and did not contract when the light reached them.The lips did not sit right against the gum. They were lifted off the teeth a fraction of an inch even with the mouth closed, so a length of canine showed at all times. There was a thread of saliva at the corner of the lower jaw that I watched stretch and break and reform.The breathing was slow. Slower than seemed alive. The chest rose and fell on a count I could nearly time.Otherwise it was a wolf. A wo
My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian 216 A Wolf
Sera"Yes you did.”"It was — Fenris, the guards were fine. The guards were the ones I already made my peace with. They were the cost. Six men. Five guards and Torin's driver. I said the names. I sat with the names. I did not eat for a day.""I know.""Torin was not on the list.""I know.""He was supposed to come back. He was supposed to come back and sit in a back room until we were done with Bram, and then we were going to send him south on a wagon with his teeth pulled and a story he could not remember the parts of. A story nobody would chase. He was supposed to live. He was —" I had to stop. "He was supposed to be useful.""Sera,” Fenris called.I put my forehead against his shoulder.He let me. He laid his hand on the back of my neck and he did not move it. He did not pat. He did not stroke. He left it where it was and he let it be heavy."Take me out of here," I said into his coat."Yes."He turned me toward the door. We made it three steps before Yvara's voice came from behind
My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian 16 The Feast
Sera"It’s getting pretty hot in here," Mina said.The shawl hit the floor before I could catch it. I immediately pulled my arms across my chest, hunched forward to hide the plunge of the neckline. Fenris’s eyes didn't just look at me; they felt like they were stripping away the last of the silk. I
Last Updated : 2026-03-18My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian 09 Talking To No One
SeraNight fell fast, and with it, the temperature plummeted. We had three fires going, but the heat didn't seem to travel more than six inches past the flames. I sat on a log by the middle fire, pulling the wagon fur around my shoulders, shivering so hard my teeth were literally clicking together.
Last Updated : 2026-03-17My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian 11 Mina
SeraThe light coming through the ceiling vents was fading into a deep violet. Torches were being lit, their orange glow reflecting off the polished stone. I sat on the wagon, feeling the cold start to seep back in, wondering if I’d just been forgotten.The warrior returned, bringing a girl with hi
Last Updated : 2026-03-17My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian 63 The Horn
FenrisThe embers in the hearth were bleeding out, turning from angry orange to a dull, dying red.The den was freezing again, but the cold didn't register. I just sat in the heavy oak chair in the corner of the room, perfectly still, watching the dark bear pelt rise and fall over her chest.Sera’s
Last Updated : 2026-03-26
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