My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian (Sera and Fenris) novel Chapter 65

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Irina

"You saw him in the yard. He threatened to cut my tongue out."

"He is under a command," I whispered. I leaned forward slightly. "I overheard them talking six years ago. Viktor visited Blackwater. He was already drunk, he bragged to Aldric in the study. Viktor said he placed a command deep in Fenris's mind when Fenris was a boy. A mental switch. Something only Viktor could activate, and it would force Fenris to obey any order absolutely."

Torin’s eyes went wide. He stopped breathing for a second. "A switch?"

"Yes," I confirmed. "Aldric is looking for it. He sent Sera here to anchor the treaty while his spies search Ironmaw for the command word or the trigger. Aldric wants to hold the leash. He will never let Sera leave. He needs her exactly where she is."

Torin looked away from me. He stared at the dying embers in the small fireplace. The political reality crashed down on him. We were trapped in a fortress of ice surrounded by feral killers, serving a king who would gladly sacrifice his own blood for a larger map.

The heavy, suffocating despair in the room shifted. It morphed into a sharp, vibrating need. I needed to feel something else. I needed to escape the freezing terror of my own mind for just five minutes.

Torin looked back down at me. He saw the shift in my eyes. He looked at my chest, watching the rapid rise and fall of my breathing under the thin silk robe.

He stepped closer, forcing my knees apart so he could stand directly in front of me. He reached down and hooked his fingers under the lapels of my robe. He pulled the silk apart. The fabric slid off my shoulders and pooled around my waist. My breasts were completely bare in the cold room. My nipples instantly pebbled into hard, tight peaks.

Torin didn't speak. He grabbed my hips and pulled me all the way to the edge of the wooden stool.

He dropped to his knees on the freezing stone floor. He shoved my thighs wide open. He pulled the thin fabric of my undergarment to the side, exposing my wet opening.