My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian (Sera and Fenris) novel Chapter 122

Sera

"Get your heavy leg off my windpipe," I rasped, slapping blindly at the solid weight crushing my throat.

Mina let out a low, miserable groan. She shifted, her bare leg dragging roughly across my neck before dropping heavily onto the mattress between us. The sunlight stabbing through the high windows felt like a physical weapon aimed directly at my retinas. My mouth tasted like old copper and fermented regret.

I pushed myself up on my elbows, the room spinning slightly. I looked down at Mina. She was sprawled on her back, completely naked, one arm thrown over her eyes to block the light.

"My brain is bleeding," Mina mumbled.

"That's what happens when you smoke an old woman's pipe weed and chase it with four kegs of dark ale," I said, rubbing the tight muscles at the back of my neck.

I looked around the room. The fire had burned down to white ash. My clothes from last night were folded neatly on a chair. I looked down at my own body, currently stripped bare under the heavy furs. The memories of last night crashed into me all at once, cutting right through the thick fog of the hangover.

The hallway. The hot spring. The heavy, calloused hands washing the sweat off my skin.

I turned my head and looked at Mina. "Did Fenris actually bathe us last night?"

Mina didn't move her arm from her eyes. She just lay there for a long time. Finally, she let out a dry breath. "Yes."

"Is that a normal thing?" I asked, my brow furrowing deeply. "Does he usually just walk you into the baths and scrub your back?"

"No," Mina said quietly. "We have never been that close. Last night was the first time something like that happened in a very long time."

I frowned, pulling the furs up to cover my chest. The cold morning air was biting at my skin. "So you just allowed him to bathe you? You just stood there? He touched you, Mina."

Mina pulled her arm away from her face and turned her head to stare at me. Her brow pinched together in a look of profound judgment. "Well, not sexually, Sera. Unlike you. I didn't grab his massive hand and force him to touch me under the water." Mina let out a sharp, raspy giggle. "Making the Alpha touch your pussy in the communal bath while his sister is sitting two feet away is next-level naughtiness. I didn't know you had it in you."

My cheeks flared with a sudden, violent heat. Fuck. I remembered doing it. The memory was crystal clear. I remembered the exact texture of his palm against my mound, the sudden shock of pleasure that rattled my spine. I had been so deeply under the influence of the alcohol that absolutely anything felt possible. Sitting here in the sober light of day, I knew with absolute certainty that if Fenris hadn't pulled his hand away, I would have easily let him fuck me right there in the water. Right in front of her.

Every single shred of southern decency I had brought with me to the North was slowly packing its bags and taking a walk. If my mother knew what I had done, she would have a stroke right there in the guest quarters.

The thought actually made me scoff out loud. Good. Let her choke on it.

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