My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian (Sera and Fenris) novel Chapter 213

Sera

"Yes you did.”

"It was — Fenris, the guards were fine. The guards were the ones I already made my peace with. They were the cost. Six men. Five guards and Torin's driver. I said the names. I sat with the names. I did not eat for a day."

"I know."

"Torin was not on the list."

"I know."

"He was supposed to come back. He was supposed to come back and sit in a back room until we were done with Bram, and then we were going to send him south on a wagon with his teeth pulled and a story he could not remember the parts of. A story nobody would chase. He was supposed to live. He was —" I had to stop. "He was supposed to be useful."

"Sera,” Fenris called.

I put my forehead against his shoulder.

He let me. He laid his hand on the back of my neck and he did not move it. He did not pat. He did not stroke. He left it where it was and he let it be heavy.

"Take me out of here," I said into his coat.

"Yes."

He turned me toward the door. We made it three steps before Yvara's voice came from behind us.

"Luna."

I stopped. I turned.

Yvara was still holding Torin upright. Her wrist was still steady. Torin's eye was still moving.

"What."

"Kark made the southern border last night. He's at the south crossing now. He'll be in Valdris in two days."

I had asked for that. I had asked for it days ago, when the plan was being put together, when I had told Yvara I needed someone in the south who could keep an eye on my mother and quietly move on my mother if my mother decided to be clever. Kark had been the obvious choice. Kark had a hold my mother could not shake. Kark would walk into that keep and my mother would let him into the bed she shared with her husband.

"Good."

"Mhm." Yvara's mouth moved into something that was almost a smile. "Your queen mother will have her boyfriend to keep her company."

"Yvara."

"What. The girl is upset. I am giving her something to look forward to."

I did not answer. I did not have the energy to answer. Yvara was getting on my nerves, but Yvara was the reason any of this was working, and those two facts had to live in the same room. Yvara could have her dig.

I let it sit.

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