My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian (Sera and Fenris) novel Chapter 431

Sera

"Months," Mina said, taking up one of the pages again. "This ran for months. There'd have to have been others in on it."

"At least."

"Eight hundred men is nothing to him," Mina said, closing her fist slowly on the page. "He's holding something back. And is this whole damn thing over now, or"

She was not looking at me when she said it. She was looking at Bram, and she did not finish the rest of it, and she did not say the name.

I did not answer her straight away, because the answer was sitting in my lap and neither of us wanted it. Kael had never been the one with the men.

"No," I said.

Bram shifted his weight from one foot to the other, drawing my gaze with the soft creak of leather. He cleared his throat once, twice.

"I haven't answered any of them," he said. "Not one."

I looked up.

"I don't know his hand. I don't know what the two of them had agreed between themselves." He turned his palms over. "Anything I sent back would have been wrong. He'd have known inside a line."

"You've sent nothing at all."

"Nothing at all, Luna."

Mina swore under her breath.

"That's why he's coming," Bram said. "He's been writing to a man who stopped writing back. He's coming to find out why."

Nobody said anything for a while.

Amara stood frozen by the far wall, her eyes fixed steadily on the three of us. She did not know a word of what had been said and she was watching all of it anyway, with that uninformed animal alertness that made me feel both protected and uneasy.

"So what do we do now?" Mina said.

The pages were still in my lap.

"I'm not sure."

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