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175 Ruin Me For Loving

Author: Jenne Lopes
last update publish date: 2026-04-17 23:10:03

Mina

We walked back to her quarters in a silence that felt heavy enough to crush the stone beneath our boots. Every guard we passed pounded their fist heavy against their chests for her. They didn't see the girl who was crying ten minutes ago. They likely saw the Luna who had handled the Southern rot.

Inside her room, the fire was roaring. It was warm, but I couldn't stop shivering.

Sera started to pace. She yanked at the laces of her wool tunic, her fingers fumbling, her movements jerky and fr
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  • 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    322 Dread

    Jace"Give me a moment."I turned the pages slower now, and I couldn’t find anything in a straight line. The thing wouldn't let me. Every page I turned had me on a different study of it, and each one stopped me before I could get past it. The figure from the back, the long muscles of it laid in like rope under the skin. The skull alone, big as a horse's and shaped like nothing that grazes. A hand again, opened flat, the claw at each fingertip drawn from three sides so you couldn't tell yourself you'd misread it.Then a run of pages on the inside of the thing, and those were worse. I can't read a word of that book. But a drawing of a heart is a heart, and the heart in those pages was wrong. Too big for the chest it sat in. Ringed around its middle with something the maker had pressed in heavier ink, the thing armored under its own skin. There were organs I had no name for, set where a man keeps nothing. There was a study of the throat opened up that I stopped on and then turned past.

  • My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian    321 Give Me A Moment

    JaceThe corridor he took me down got narrower and colder the further we went. I have learned over a long, careful life to pay attention when a powerful man walks you somewhere quiet.He didn't talk on the way. The arm I'd laid across his shoulders had come off somewhere around the second turn, naturally, the moment its work was done. Now he was a step ahead of me, a wall of a man moving through his own house, and I followed, because the only thing worse than following him would have been making him ask twice. The torches got fewer. The noise of the hall fell off behind us until it was a rumor of itself. I counted the doors we passed, the turns we took, the same as I count everything, because a man who knows the way out is never quite as trapped as he looks.We stopped at a door at the end of it. He opened it himself and stood aside and waited for me to go in first, which is not a courtesy. You put a man in a room ahead of you when you want to be the one between him and the door.I w

  • 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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