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169 Jewelry Box Of Filth

Author: Jenne Lopes
last update publish date: 2026-04-15 21:46:48

Irina

"I wouldn't do that if I were you, Sera."

She was still leaning against my vanity, casually watching the drama like it was a play she’d seen a dozen times before.

Sera’s head snapped up. I watched the moment her expression slowly solidified. The tears didn't stop, but the distress vanished, replaced by something dark, jagged, and dangerous.

"You fucking bitch!" Sera cursed.

In an instant, she closed the gap. I didn't even see the moment she unfurled herself from the ground. All I saw was
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  • My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian    328 On Paper

    JaceThe laugh was gone. She'd put her face back exactly where I'd known she would, cold and even, and the woman standing in front of me now was the one I actually had to deal with."You want me to make you Alpha.""No."That got something out of her. Not a laugh this time. Closer to interest."I asked for that because it was the bluntest version of what I needed, and I wanted to see what you'd do with it. Now I know. I don't actually want the chair." I shifted my weight. "I want access. Those aren't the same thing, and I'm about to show you the difference."She didn't tell me to go on. She stood there and let me decide whether I was wasting both our time."Mistwood's people are already working the ground I need. Under the deal Kane signed, they've got rights inside Blackwater's hills, and the spot I need sits right in the middle of what they're already digging. I can't get near it without going through them first.""So clear them out.""Blackwater can't. Mistwood didn't get as big as

  • My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian    327 Are You Done?

    JaceSera went still.She stared at me like I had said something so ridiculous that it was taking a while for it to make sense.I watched it land on her.Then she started to laugh.Not a small one. She threw her head back, both hands dropped to her knees, and she laughed at me, loud, out in the open yard, bent over with it, her shoulders shaking violently.Around us the warriors turned to look. Their Luna, folded in half and howling at the southerner in the snow. A couple of them came half off the fence, unsure whether something had gone wrong with her. Nothing had gone wrong with her. She was the only one in that yard having a good morning.I stood there and let her have it. Then I pushed a slightly frustrated breath out through my nose and waited.Let me stop it there a second because I want to be fair to her, and fair means admitting she had a point.What I'd asked for was insane. I know it. A man with no blood, no claim, no pack, no name anybody up here had heard a week ago, stand

  • My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian    326 I Need You To Make Me Alpha.

    JaceSera scoffed. "That's the wife he picked. He chose her over me in front of everyone." She looked at me. "So what is it you think I'm going to do about any of this?""You used to run that place. Properly. The ledgers Kane can't read now, you kept them clean. The pack had a spine when you were Luna and it's gone soft without one." I took a step closer, careful, aware of the men around us. "Blackwater needs a new government. You've got influence Kane will never have, and you've got a husband whose name makes packs wet themselves from here to the southern water. Kane is killing that pack slowly. Elara's helping. Mistwood is carving it up. Give it a year and there are children in Blackwater going to bed hungry, and you of all people know that pack was never supposed to come to that."She was quiet for a while, then…"It's not my pack anymore." She said it without any give at all. "I can't help you. Go home, Jace."She turned to go.I caught her wrist.It was a stupid thing to do and

  • My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian    325 What Do You Want With Her

    Jace"The warrior isn't happy you beat him."I turned around. Sera stood a few feet off in furs too good for a morning walk to a sparring yard, breath showing white in the cold. Behind her, two soldiers were carrying the tall fighter off between them, her feet dragging furrows in the snow, blood gone black down her chin. Nobody in the yard was watching that anymore. They were watching Sera, and through her, me."Did you watch the whole thing?" I asked."I watched you put money on the one who was losing." No smile when she said it. "Then I watched her win.""That's the trade. You bet on what people are, not what they look like in the moment.""Is that what you do with everyone?"She put it flat, no lift at the end. More statement than question. I let it sit a second before I answered."Mostly."She didn't follow up. Whatever else she'd come to say, she wasn't going to waste it on the fight. She kept her eyes on me, and I understood we were done talking about that."My husband asked me

  • My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian    324 Good Money

    Jace"That's the one."I counted the gold into his palm. No paper. Paper money up here is a joke you tell children, so I'd come north with the real weight of it, and I watched his eyebrows go up at how much."You're sure," he said."On her."He turned his head and called it across to the soldier keeping the other half of the book, and a couple of them close enough to hear laughed at me, the southerner handing his money to the snow."He's putting it on the bleeder," one of them said, delighted."I heard."The old me would've doubled it without a blink and had nothing left in the purse by spring. I count the weight of it now. The only reason I have a purse at all is the stocks my father left me, and I sold the last of those a while back, so the gold leaving my hand is gold I feel leave. I put it on the bleeder anyway. Knowing better has never once stopped me. It only makes me feel worse about it after.The fight went how I knew it would. The body tells you, if you'll listen.The tall on

  • My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian    323 The Losing One

    JaceI still couldn't work out why Mina kept going down to the kitchens.She was gone before I woke, second morning in a row, off to work with the cooks and the pot-scrubbers. She didn't have to be. She was the Alpha's sister, half his blood anyway. One word from her and she'd never lift a finger in this place again. But down she went, every morning, and came back smelling of smoke and bread with flour up her sleeves, happy in a way I didn't poke at.The omega thing was the half that wasn't Fenris's. Her mother was a slave brought up out of the south, and in the North that travels straight down the blood. Nothing washes it out, not even an Alpha for a brother. So she got both at once. The protection and the stain. I'd watched it follow her around the keep, the small ways people stood a half-step off her, careful, the respect that stopped a hair short of real. None of them did it to her face. Nobody up here was dumb enough to slight the Alpha's blood where the Alpha might hear about it

  • My 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.

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  • My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian    110 Mechanical Voice

    LyraShe ignored me. She dropped to her knees, her hands sliding down to the waistband of my trousers. She shoved her fingers inside the fabric, gripping my hips tight. With one sharp pull, she dragged the pants and my underwear down to my ankles. I stepped out of them, kicking my boots off in the

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  • My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian    113 Monster

    Lyra"Tell the girl to step into the room," he said."Leave her out of this," I said. My voice came out as a pathetic, raspy whisper. I cleared my throat, trying to find some spine. "She didn't do anything. It was my idea to come in here.""Tell her to step into the room," he said, his eyes going d

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  • My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian    111 Aldric Is Back

    LyraThe voice didn't belong to Nadia. It didn't belong to me. It came from the metallic object resting directly behind my hip.Nadia froze. She pulled her mouth away from me and yanked her fingers out of my body. She stood up quickly, wiping her wet mouth with the back of her hand, her chest heavi

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