My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian (Sera and Fenris) novel Chapter 439

Fenris

"There was no North then. Only the pack. The Old Council came together, and with the Moon Goddess, they bred stronger wolves. Wolves who could stand against the Lycans."

"You know the story of the Butcher. But you may not know where he came from. The Goddess herself came to our land... and she mated with an Alpha's slave. The first Butcher came from that."

I stared at him. I did not need to speak... He could see the disbelief in my face.

"It's the truth," he said. "The slave was strong, but he was also obedient... He submitted to her. From that union a child was conceived and born. That child was the first Butcher. His line strengthened, and that is how the North was made. You come from that child. You are his bloodline, reborn."

"I was bred from a slave?" I said.

"The blood of a slave, and the blood of a Goddess. That's what you are. That's what the Butcher has always been." Halvard's face was grim. "The Lycans left us with nothing but corpses. They nearly wiped us out entirely. But that blood gave us a weapon. The Butcher was the one thing they could not stand against. They killed our families, our children, our entire pack. But we bled them in return. And they fled. They vanished from this world and were never found again."

"What has changed to bring them out of hiding now?"

"I don't know the full truth of it," Halvard said. "But patience like theirs isn't natural."

"Why did the North cut itself off, then? If the Lycans were gone?"

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