My Second Chance Mate is a Barbarian (Sera and Fenris) novel Chapter 232

Sera

"He is not your problem. He has not been your problem from the day he opened his mouth in your mother's company. He thought with his cock. He fucked the wrong woman. Your mother used him because that is what your mother does with men who think with their cocks, and now he is in a bath in my keep because he could not keep himself out of a bed he had no business being in. That is not on you. That is on him. And on her."

"He didn't know what she was —"

"Sera. The first time you broke Taya's leg on the training ground, I told myself I had picked the right woman. I had not picked you yet. I had been told to. I had taken the contract. But that morning I watched you put your knee through her thigh and I thought — yes. Yes. This one. This one has it. Do you know what I wanted to say to you that night."

"What."

"Don't apologize."

He held my eyes.

"I didn't say it. I thought you weren't ready to hear it. I'm saying it now. Don't apologize, Sera. Not for Taya. Not for Kael. Not for Torin. I am telling you now what I should have told you then. I knew you were going to want to. I knew it the same way I know now that you are going to want to end this. You are looking for the apology you can give yourself for what you have done, and Torin is the apology, and I am telling you, Luna. Don't. Don't make me start doubting now."."

"I am not looking for —"

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