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237 Does The Alpha Know?

作者: Jenne Lopes
last update publish date: 2026-05-17 22:25:34

I watched Torin.

The brine had moved with the small currents in the bath when the door had opened, and the surface had settled again, and what I had in front of me was a man in pieces under a layer of yellow water. The left arm was gone at the shoulder. The right arm was whole below the elbow, but the elbow itself was a flat working joint with hide grown back over the moving parts — Madra's work, slow patient layers laid down across.

The chest was not the chest of a man who had been intact a m
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  • My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian    237 Does The Alpha Know?

    I watched Torin.The brine had moved with the small currents in the bath when the door had opened, and the surface had settled again, and what I had in front of me was a man in pieces under a layer of yellow water. The left arm was gone at the shoulder. The right arm was whole below the elbow, but the elbow itself was a flat working joint with hide grown back over the moving parts — Madra's work, slow patient layers laid down across. The chest was not the chest of a man who had been intact a month ago. There were sections of the ribcage that had been taken and the skin had been pulled across the gap and stitched to the meat under. The legs below the water were the things I did not let myself study for long. The legs were the part Madra had not been allowed to heal, because she needed to keep specific channels open for the brine to work, and what was under his waist did not have a name in any anatomy I had been taught.The face above the strap was almost whole. The face had been prese

  • My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian    236 A Warning

    SeraMadra cleared her throat."Luna," she said, soft. "The man will be kept."I did not answer her."He will be fed. I will make sure he is moved every two hours. I will talk to him to keep him company. Even while he’s awake, I’ll make sure he doesn’t suffer. But the work will go on the way it has been going."I sighed. Didn’t know how to react to that."Thank you, Madra."She inclined her head and went back to her sleeves.Yvara had not moved during any of it.She had come in behind Fenris and me, and had taken the position she always took in any room with the three of us — against the wall closest to the door, arms folded, watching me the whole way through the Fenris speech.She came off the wall now.She did not come to me directly. She went around the foot of the bath and stopped a step to my right, and considered Torin with the flat, careful attention she gave most things."He's right.""I know.""He didn't have to be loud about it.""He wasn't loud.""He was loud for him." A gl

  • My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian    235 Don't Get Soft On Me Now

    Sera"He is not your problem. He has not been your problem from the day he opened his mouth in your mother's company. He thought with his cock. He fucked the wrong woman. Your mother used him because that is what your mother does with men who think with their cocks, and now he is in a bath in my keep because he could not keep himself out of a bed he had no business being in. That is not on you. That is on him. And on her.""He didn't know what she was —""Sera. The first time you broke Taya's leg on the training ground, I told myself I had picked the right woman. I had not picked you yet. I had been told to. I had taken the contract. But that morning I watched you put your knee through her thigh and I thought — yes. Yes. This one. This one has it. Do you know what I wanted to say to you that night.""What.""Don't apologize."He held my eyes."I didn't say it. I thought you weren't ready to hear it. I'm saying it now. Don't apologize, Sera. Not for Taya. Not for Kael. Not for Torin. I

  • My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian    234 Not Your Problem To Fix

    SeraI had told Fenris on the walk down that I wanted to end it.He had not answered. He had walked beside me with a hand at the small of my back and the torch in the other, and he had said nothing until we reached the iron door at the end of the corridor, where he stopped and looked at me and asked, "End what.""You know what.""Say it, Sera.""Torin."He did not answer that either. He reached past me and opened the door.The room was small enough that the three of us crowded it. Two grease lamps in old iron sconces. A drain in the centre of the stone floor that emptied into the keep's old kitchen channel. The copper bath against the far wall, deep enough for a man, shallow enough to keep his head out, set at an angle on a wooden rest so the water would not slosh when she lifted him. The smell was the smell I had been carrying out of this room on my skin for two weeks and could not wash off no matter how long I sat under the bathhouse waterfall after.Madra was at the bath. She turne

  • My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian    233 Same Tactic

    IrinaHe let go of my chin and put his hand at the side of my throat. Open palm, fingers spread, the heel of his hand at my collarbone and his thumb under my ear. He slowly ran his eyes down the length of my body under the sheet. He took his time. Now I know what a horse feels like under the eyes of a buyer.He took the sheet off me in one pull.He had it bunched in his fist at my knees and he tore it sideways off the bed and let it drop. The nightdress had ridden up to my hips leaving my thighs down bare. He looked at the bare skin from my knees to the bunched silk at my waist and his face did not move at all, and he did not have to say anything for me to know what he was looking at, and my whole body was hot at once."Spread your legs."This Idiot was in my room, and was ordering me to spread my legs. Just a simple scream from me, and every guard in the mansion would be here. Kark would be killed before he can even explain what he was doing mounting the Queen of Valdris.I did not

  • My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian    232 Thought As Much

    Irina"Luna ordered it. I did it. I'd do it again tomorrow if she said." A beat. "Doesn't mean I didn't fuck you well on that balcony. Both things are true. You're the one walking around like they cancel out."I stared at him."Sera asked you to stab me."He held the line for half a second too long."Well." He shrugged the one shoulder. "Not exactly.""What do you mean not exactly.""Yvara called me in. The order came from her.""From Yvara.""From the Alpha's beta. Yes.""And you took it.""I took it. Beta gives an order in that room, you don't ask her where she got it. She takes hers from the Alpha and his Luna. So." He tilted his head a fraction. "Yeah. Sure. Your daughter ordered it. As far as I'm concerned."I sat with that.It should not have changed anything. I had known. I had watched Sera cry in that room afterward and scold her beta in front of me, and I had known the whole performance for what it was the second she lifted her chin and started in on Yvara — a Luna does not w

  • 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

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  • 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    44 Fighting Spirit

    Sera“What just happened?”"Forced healing takes fuel," Yvara explained. She paced in front of me. "It pulls energy directly from your reserves. It burns calories at a massive rate. In a battle of attrition, this will keep you alive, but it will also kill you if you aren't careful. You just got the

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  • My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian    40 Dealing With It

    FenrisThe leather bag was old. It was cracked in several places, leaking thin streams of sand onto the stone floor every time I hit it. The heavy chains groaned, a high-pitched metallic scrape that echoed in the small, windowless space. This was the belly of the mountain, a place the torches barel

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