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My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian 312 Taya’s Venom
MinaThe kitchen has its own atmosphere, steam and the bang of pots and the heat coming off the ovens in a wall, and Marta was at the long table working a joint of meat with a cleaver, and when she saw me her face did a thing I wasn't ready for.Her whole face opened up."Well," she said, setting the cleaver down. "Look who's glowing."I'd come in braced. The last time I'd stood in this kitchen I'd snapped at her, used the word help as a weapon, thrown my brother's name down between us to put her in her place, and she'd gone flat and sterile and called me the Alpha's blood and never once met my eyes. I'd carried that out of here. I'd meant to make it right and hadn't known how."Marta," I started. "About the last time. The way I talked to you. I was—""You were a cow," she said pleasantly, already reaching for a bowl. "Don't fuss it. We've all had days we'd take back." She started spooning stew, thick, the good cut, more than I'd asked for. "I hear there's a reason you've been wearing
My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian 311 My Man
MinaIt was evening, and I took him the long way around the pack house, because I wanted him to see it, and because I wanted a few more minutes of him to myself before the whole keep got its hands on him.It was the same walk I'd given Sera her first week. Down the gallery where the old shields hung, past the long windows that showed the yard going blue with evening, and I named things as we went, the naming you do for someone you want to belong somewhere. That's the armory. That's where the council sits. That door you don't open. He took it all in with that quiet attention he had, the one that left you feeling like the only lit thing in the room, and every few steps his hand found the small of my back, light, only to say he was there."There's a feast coming," I said. "Day after tomorrow, the big one. You'll want to be ready for that. Northern feasts aren't like anything you've sat at down south, I promise you.""What's the occasion?""My brother's riding out soon. He’s taking a war
My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian 310 She’s Gotten To Him
Taya"You used to tell me to make the trouble worth it." I turned to face him. "You used to say a Vint woman doesn't ask permission to be a problem. Mama said it first. You always said Mama said it first."That was where the floor dropped.Because my father held on me for a half-second too long. A blank half-second, the smallest hitch, the look of a man reaching into a pocket he knows should have a thing in it and finding the pocket empty. Anyone else would have missed it. I have watched my father my whole life. I know the difference between him thinking and him not having the thought at all."Your mother said a great many things," he said.That was all. Your mother said a great many things.My mother had said that one thing, that exact thing, over my cradle and over my scraped knees and over my first ruined fight, and after she went into the ground my father had said it to me at every hard moment of my life since, word for word. He didn't fumble it. He never fumbled it. It was the th
My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian 309 Stay Out Of Trouble
TayaRurik came in without knocking, the same as always, already talking before the door had shut behind him."So the Alpha's leaving." He dropped onto the bench by my window and put his boots up on the sill like the room was his. "Riding out. Soon, is the word. And it's not a few men, it's a proper war party, half the good warriors going with him."I was at the basin and I didn't turn around. "How do you know that.""A friend told me.""What friend.""A friend." He grinned at the back of my head in the polished iron. "I have those. People tell me things. It's a gift."It wasn't a gift, it was that Rurik couldn't walk past two people murmuring without folding himself into it, and everyone knew it, and somehow they told him things anyway. I'd stopped asking who his friends were years ago. It was never anyone. It was always everyone."Riding out where," I said."How would I know that." He said it to the ceiling, wounded, a man whose gift had been insulted and was going to make me pay fo
My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian 308 The Thing Nobody Was Saying
Jace"A fire."He held my eyes and I gave him nothing but the truth, which is the easiest thing to give when you've decided in advance which parts of it to hand over. Because the whole truth had a name in it. The whole truth had wolfsbane under the char and a god who drove up the island road in an Italian suit, and that name was known in this room, was maybe known better in this room than anywhere on the continent, and if I said it I wasn't telling the Alpha anything he needed. I was reaching across this small hard room and putting my hand into the one person standing here who carried that name in her own blood, and pressing on a bruise I had no business touching, for nothing, for no gain I could name. So I left him out of it. I left the devil out of my own parents' funeral because saying his name served no one in that room.The Luna spoke for the first time."That's enough, I think." Her voice was cool and even and aimed at her mate, not at me, but her eyes came to me when she said
My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian 207 A Fire
JaceThey took me inside, and the warmth hit me first, and then the fact that the warmth was the only soft thing I was going to get.The hall they put me in was smaller than the great one I'd glimpsed off the entry, a room built for fewer people and harder conversations, with a fire going hard in a stone mouth at one end and a long table that nobody sat at. We didn't sit. A host who means you well sits you down, and the Alpha stood, so we all stood, Mina at my side with her hand finding my sleeve every minute or so to check I was still there, the Luna a little apart with her arms loosely crossed, and me in the middle of it with my coat still on and my present already handed off to a servant who'd carried it away to wherever gifts go to be examined."How did you meet my sister," Fenris said.It wasn't the opening I'd have picked, but it was the one Mina and I had walked through twice on the way up, quiet, her mouth close to my ear so the wind took it. Keep how long we have known each o
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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