313 What The Fuck Do You Think You’re Doing?

Mina"And I'm going to find out what it is. Every bit of it. And when I do, there won't be a corner of this keep she can hide in, because they'll all see her for the scam she is."Inside me, something turned over.Because I knew. That was the awful part, standing there with the stew going cold in my hands. I knew more than Taya did and I'd worked hard not to. Sera had come to me once with red eyes and told me two things in the same hour. That she was carrying a child, and that Kael was dead. I hadn't asked her to explain the second one. I'd seen the shape of it sitting behind her face, the size of the thing she was holding, and I'd made a choice, the same choice I was making now with my face gone smooth and still. I didn't want it. I'd spent my whole life with other people's blood on the floor and I was done volunteering for it. Sera could carry her own. I had a man who was good to me and a kitchen full of women who'd teased me about my hair, and I wanted to keep those things, and y

311 Giving Mina The Floor

Jace"What the fuck do you think you're doing?"Her wrist was thin and hard in my grip, and I'd caught it a hand's width from Mina's face, and the part of me that lunged to catch it hadn't stopped to ask the rest of me first.That was the trouble. I'd spent my life not doing things like this. I'd built a whole man out of not doing things like this, the soft harmless southerner with his hands always open and in view, and the work of all five years had gone out the window in one breath, because I'd watched a woman wind up to drive a fist through the face of the only person on this freezing continent who'd waited for me, and my body had answered before my brain got a vote.Now I was a stranger with his hand locked on a trueborn daughter of the North.Behind me, the room had heard it happen.Benches scraped. Not all of them. Three, maybe four, the sound of big men coming up off the wood fast, and I didn't turn to count because turning my back fully on the woman was its own kind of stupid,

312 Harmless Thing

JaceShe'd gone still. Not frightened still. The other kind. She had the bowl of stew in her two hands, absurdly, the thing she'd carried out of the kitchen to feed me, and she set it down on the nearest bench without a glance at it, and she straightened, and something came up in her that I'd been waiting our whole reunion to see arrive."He asked you a question, Taya," Mina said. "Which of them was coming for my arm. Go on. Tell the hall."Taya's mouth opened."No." Mina took a step into her. "You don't get to answer that one, because we both know the answer, and it's that you put your hand up to hit me in front of forty people who watch everything and forget nothing, and not one of them stood for me. He did." Her voice wasn't loud. It didn't have to be. The whole hall had gone to glass around us. "You want to talk about what people are. Let's. You're the daughter of an elder. I'm the daughter of a slave. You've never once let me forget it, my whole life, every room, every doorway,

All Chapters of My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian : Chapter 301 - Chapter 303

313 What The Fuck Do You Think You’re Doing?

311 Giving Mina The Floor

312 Harmless Thing