All Chapters of My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian : Chapter 351 - Chapter 360

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359 Control In Death

ElaraThe moment before you lose your life, everything tends to feel normal in the most surreal way that if you think or look at it closely, it starts to feel unnatural.One second, Kane had his hands on my hips, guiding, helping—Next, they locked like vices. His fingers dug in so hard I knew I’d bruise, his thumbs pressing into the bone. The shift in his touch sent a warning up my spine, but before I could react, his pace turned brutal.No more rhythm. No more give-and-take.He drove his cock up into me, hard, relentless, his hips snapping against mine with a force that knocked the breath out of me.The counter groaned. My back hit the cabinets, the wood biting into my shoulder blades, but he didn’t slow. Didn’t stop.I turned over my shoulder to look at him. His face was different.I’d seen Kane soft. Seen him drunk. Seen him angry, seen him desperate. But this—His jaw was clenched, his eyes dark, fixed on some point over my shoulder. Not looking at me. Not even with me anymore. H

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I'm here again to say thank you to everyone reading, and especially to those of you who've left a comment, dropped a review, or sent a Gem. I see every one of them. Writing something this long can feel like talking into an empty room, and every bit of feedback has been proof that someone's actually out there. That matters more than I can put into words. Please keep them coming.Now I want to ask you something.We're working towards the final act. Everything I've been laying down for three hundred–odd chapters is starting to come due, and before I take it home, I'd like to know what you're seeing.Where do you think this is going? What have you pieced together? What are you hoping for or dreading?And the harder question: what isn't working?I mean it. If something's dragging, if a character grates on you, if a thread you cared about went quiet, if a chapter didn't land. Tell me. I won't be offended I promise.I'd much rather hear it now, while I can still do something about it, than fi

360 Us Both

SeraThe rugs in the upper corridor had been beaten before light. I could smell the cold still in them, that mineral smell snow leaves in wool, and I walked the whole length of the level without meeting anyone, which told me something I did not want to know about how the keep was holding. Three days, and it had gone quiet.He was alive. I checked him a hundred times a day now, and what came back was low and steady and somewhere east, unhurt, riding. That was all it ever gave me. It was not comfort. It was the absence of the other thing, and I had learned to take that and call it enough.Then the second one.She sat under this keep like a stone in a shoe. Close and low. I had felt her every hour for three days, and what came off her now was hunger. I could feel her hunger because I had no idea if she had been fed, and I didn't have the mind to go looking for her. She was a rogue. I turned at the landing and went the other way.Mina's door stood open. The room behind it was black, cur

361 I Don't Know

Sera "That's us both."It went in under the ribs, into the same place the other cruel things had been, and I swallowed it clean because there was work to do and I could not afford to be selfish and because I have never in my life known what to do with truth said kindly.I stood off the bed.Get up. You need a proper bath.""No.""Mina.""No." She drew her knees up. "Go away, Sera.""Not happening.""I'm not doing this." Her voice went thin and she flattened it back out. "I'm not getting up, I'm not eating, I'm not going down to the kitchens. Just go away please.""You're getting in the water, and I'm bathing you, Mina!" My voice shook slightly it surprised me. She went quiet, staring at me. I swallowed. I was holding on to something I keep lying to myself about, and now it was affecting me."Why do you care?"'I don't know.'I didn't say that; instead, I got both hands under her arms and hauled. Surprisingly, she didn't protest, or try to stop me, but she didn't help me either. She

362 Get In Here

Sera“I don’t know.”"What do you mean you don't know?" Mina said, pushing herself up off the bench, now standing with her arms folded and stare at me with a look that was starting to be suspicion. "You said you need to show me something. How do you not know what it is?""I'll show you.""I'm not doing this, Sera. Whatever it is."I stepped around her to the door, trying not to meet her eyes."You need to get out of this room," I said. "You haven't been out of it since he left."Mina scoffed, behind me. "What business is that of yours?""Everyone's scattered since they left, and it's just you and me up here, so that's what.""I don't have to answer to you. I don't have to do anything.""You do have to eat," I said, and turned to face her. "You haven't been down to the kitchens. You've been living off water, and that won't cut it.""So what's the plan here?""The plan is to feed you and then show you this thing. Get up."She stared at me, arms still crossed. "I swear to the gods if this

363 What Kind Of Monster Are You?

Sera"Get in here."She came into the small stone room and stopped. The low light had her squinting, and the first thing I saw was her hands tighten around my arms. "What the fuck?"The room was small and stone and lit low. The light was flat and gray, the smell of damp and earth. A torch flickered in the corner. And against the far wall stood an iron cage, and inside the cage was a naked woman.She was filthy, her hair matted, dried mud in patches on her skin, and she crouched low to the floor like an animal. The moment her eyes met mine, she scrambled up onto the front of the cage on all fours and pressed herself close to the bars, eager, fixed entirely on me. Her whole body was animal in the way it moved and the way it fixed on me. She did not try to speak. She only wanted to be near me.Mina turned to stare at me. Her expression was one of pure moral horror, aimed entirely at me."What the fuck is this?" she whispered. "What have you done?""It's a rogue," I said, watching the cag

364 Does That Look Normal To You?

SeraI couldn't keep up with what Mina was saying. I was locked on the woman. The way she was staring at me. The way she sniffed and then turned around, I even got a flash of her ass, and she turned back to me looking eagerly.She looked purely happy to see me, and I couldn't look away.The bond swelled in my head, a strange pressure against my temples. A pull, magnetic and relentless, like I was a compass and the thing in the cage the lodestone.I felt it everywhere, and I felt it nowhere. It was intimate and invasive, the way the bond with Fenris was intimate and invasive. It was also obscene – not in its force, because that I understood, but in its aim. It wanted it. It needed. It hungered, and it hungered for me, and the thought made me sick. I recoiled and I shoved the feeling down.I pushed it to a corner of my mind and walled it off, because otherwise I would have gone mad. I told myself I was sane. I was Luna of Ironmaw, and I would not let a monster make me its lunatic.The bo

365 Luna

Sera"Does that look normal to you? I asked, but I was too stunned to hear her answer. My gaze was fixed on the creature. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.Mina stared, her eyes wide and uncertain, slowly shaking her head. "This isn't real," she muttered to herself, as if saying it out loud could somehow make it true.She took another step toward the cage, her hand outstretched, as if to prove to herself that this was harmless. But the movement was too sudden, and I saw her too late. I opened my mouth to shout, but the words died on my tongue as the creature lunged forward.Jaws snapped wildly at the bars, the sound echoing through the cavern. Mina's hand was there a moment ago, and I felt my blood run cold. A single sharp yelp escaped my throat as Mina stumbled backward, away from the cage. I flinched back as well, my heart pounding wildly in my chest.Both of us now stood several feet from the cage, our faces pale. I could feel my breath coming in short gasps, and Mina's eyes we

366 Scared

SeraMy fork scraped the plate, stirring the venison in gravy. The meat was tender, but it tasted like ash. My appetite had been gone for days. It had not been the same since Fenris rode out.I had almost missed it when it happened - the moment my senses snapped back. Just a few minutes ago, we'd run out of the storeroom where the fully fleshed woman rogue was kept. The entire situation was absurd. You can't stand before an adult woman like that acting like a feral animal and expect to just take it.That thing had almost chopped Mina's fingers off.I looked up, my gaze going to the opposite end of the table. Mina was seated there, her own meal untouched before her. She looked distant, her eyes unfocused on some far-off point. Mina had been born here in the North, and even she was rattled by the idea of a rogue wolf becoming a fully fleshed woman. To top it all, it was a beautiful woman.My mouth went dry as I watched Mina sit, distant-eyed and still, the fork hovering over her plate.

367 I Know You’re Not Listening

SeraMy eyes felt gritty behind their lids as I walked the corridor beside Mina, her hand locked tight around my elbow.It was early, before the sun was up, and the keep was quiet except for the low murmur of voices in the kitchens ahead. I'd been up most of the night, stomach roiling, and the smell of the kitchens hit my throat and made it worse. I'd had this same sickness every morning for days now, and I'd given up wondering if the cause was the baby or the North.I didn't say any of that to Mina, who kept looking at me as though I might crack open and bleed on the floor any minute. "Eat something," she ordered when I slowed.I shook my head, swallowing down the bile, and she tightened her grip and kept pulling me toward the kitchens. I'd slept badly for five nights running, but I had not slept at all last night, and now my mind was slow and my eyes felt like two hot stones behind my lids.The bond with Fenris was still and warm in my chest, telling me only that he was alive, but i

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