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583 Sitting Beside Him

Author: Jenne Lopes
last update publish date: 2026-11-12 23:47:13

Vidar

"Your Luna held this keep while you were gone, Alpha." Thorne glared at Sera. "Young Taya was butchered in the halls of Ironmaw. Under your rule and your roof, Luna. You could have stopped it, and you did nothing." His jaw clenched. "Taya."

The name cracked in his throat.

"Thorne," Vane said, but Thorne barreled on.

"Kael is gone with no trace. The Luna says she's searching for him, but what has she found in all this time? Not a single trace. What good is a Luna if she cannot protect our
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  • My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian    583 Sitting Beside Him

    Vidar"Your Luna held this keep while you were gone, Alpha." Thorne glared at Sera. "Young Taya was butchered in the halls of Ironmaw. Under your rule and your roof, Luna. You could have stopped it, and you did nothing." His jaw clenched. "Taya."The name cracked in his throat."Thorne," Vane said, but Thorne barreled on."Kael is gone with no trace. The Luna says she's searching for him, but what has she found in all this time? Not a single trace. What good is a Luna if she cannot protect our kin?"Thorne pounded his fist on the table, making the cups rattle. He looked at Sera, daring her to speak. To defend herself. But the Luna stayed silent.Nobody spoke. The room went cold.Every eye at the table went to Fenris. Thorne stared straight back at him.I muttered under my breath. "Idiot."The weight came off Fenris, but he did not move an inch. The flames in the great hearth behind him bent low and guttered.Dust puffed free from the rafters and spilled over the table. It coated the b

  • My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian    582 How Drunk Would You Have Been

    VidarThorne had called this council, and Thorne had been the last to sit.I took Kael's chair, hard under my ass. From the look of the rest of them, they'd been dragged out of bed by their heels.Last night's feast still clung to them, wine and meat and too much smoke. The fire popped behind Fenris, who sat at the table's head with Sera at his right. Her hands rested in her lap.Gunnar had planted himself behind my chair before I sat down. He did that when he didn't like a room. Sera's girl bodyguard stood motionless behind her chair. The Butcher's beta leaned by the oak door, arms crossed.The Luna's face gave nothing away.Toren spoke first, his voice husky. "What is to be done with the Southern Alpha in the dungeon, Alpha?""Not in this room," Fenris said. "Not today."Thorne cleared his throat. "With all due respect, Alpha, would you care to explain why the Luna kept her pregnancy hidden from her own pack?" He glanced at Sera. "If there was nothing to hide, why hide it?"Fenris l

  • My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian    581 Can't Get Soft

    JaceHer kiss was never gentle, but this one was rawer, rougher. She was trying to knock the day out of both our heads. I tasted the ale on her tongue, the smoke of the hall still clinging to her. Her hands gripped my shirt, then her fingers were in my hair, tugging. She nipped at my bottom lip, and I growled into her mouth.When we parted, she turned her back to me and lifted her hair off her shoulders. "Undo me," she said. I swore as I fumbled with the stupid little buttons down the back of her feast dress.I popped one loose, then another, and the material finally gave. She shivered when my fingers brushed the small of her back."About bloody time," she muttered, and reached for the hem of my shirt. I caught her hands, pulling the fabric over my head and tossing it aside. My trousers were next, and this time she dropped her hands and let me work them loose myself.I was half-hard by the time she slid her skirts up her thighs and straddled me on the furs. "I need you." Her words wer

  • My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian    580 Does That Look Normal to You?

    JaceMina kicked her door shut behind us and started on her hair before I'd even sat down. Pins scattered on the floor as she paced, muttering to herself."Oh my gods, he actually did it." She laughed. "Did you see Ossian? He was up on his bench yelling. I thought he was gonna hurt himself.""Yeah, I saw him," I said, pulling my boots off and tossing them aside. "Though I guess the whole North just watched your brother haul me in against his side. I'm never going to be able to drink in that hall again without someone calling me one of us."A hairpin whizzed by my ear. "Shut the fuck up and enjoy it," Mina snapped, pulling out another pin. Her hair fell loose around her shoulders.I smirked, but inside, my mind was still in the feast hall. Kane slapping Elara's face again and again, sending her to the floor wailing and bleeding.The guard hauling him down the aisle, Kane twisting around to scream at Sera. And this afternoon at the gate, I'd told my best friend I'd look out for him. Not

  • My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian    579 One of Us

    MinaMy brother was still on his feet. He lifted a hand, and table by table the laughter died, until I could hear the fire hiss and spit. In my head they were still laughing. There was blood on the stone at my feet.Two servers came up onto the dais, their footsteps echoing. Elara was awake now, making a thin wet sound that grated on my ears. They pulled her arms over their shoulders and half carried her, her feet scraping along the stone.The tooth was still lying by my boot. It reminded me she was still a person underneath all that stupid. I looked at Sera, who watched them take her to the door at the far end of the dais. She did nothing but watch."That is over," Fenris said. "We do not speak of him again tonight."He turned his head to Sera, then back to the hall. "The man who made this child threw it out with its mother. I took her in. Now I take the child too. It is mine to raise and mine to protect." A pause. "Any wolf who has a problem with that can say so now."Took her in. H

  • My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian    578 Say It Again

    MinaKane was still silent. I felt nothing for his humiliation. But I watched the chiefs' faces harden. They would punish Sera for this, and my brother. Fucking disaster, and it was only just beginning.Elara's voice was small and shaking beside me. "Every day I lived in fear of him." A long pause, then she continued."I was scared of the day he'd decide I wasn't worth it anymore and put me out. Just like he did Sera."My eyes darted to Sera's face.Elara was crying now. I was close enough to see how her face crumpled, close enough to catch the salt of her tears. "I never wanted to do this." Her voice wavered. "I never wanted to hurt anyone."She turned her head and looked back at Sera. Sera sat stone still, staring right back at her. For a second I thought I saw a smirk on her face, but then it was gone. I couldn't be sure."I'm sorry," Elara said. "I'm so sorry, Sera. He made me do it. Please, you have to believe me."Elara kept apologizing, over and over. I didn't buy a bloody word

  • 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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