Barbarian's Mate (Ice Planet Barbarians, #6)

by Ruby Dixon

I’m the only one whose cootie has gone out to lunch.

I’ll resonate - my cootie will vibrate once it gets near the perfect male so I can know that it’s chosen, and then we can have really intense, repeated sex until we make a cute, fuzzy blue baby.

✨priorities✨

“What is va-shy-nuh?” Farli asks. “I do not know this word.”

Oh Farli 🤣

Oh, you jerk of a cootie. How could you do this to me? I thought we were friends!

Poor Josie 🤣😭

I am the only male to have two mates and yet have never touched a woman.

Poor Haeden 😭💔

The truth is that I do not hate her. I could not. She is sunlight and warm smiles. She is laughter and happiness, and those things are lost to me. I have not been happy since Zalah died cursing my name.

I want to do right by my child. I want it to grow up in a world of love where parents never disappear, people only touch you with kindness, and there’s nothing but joy and welcome and love at home. I want my child to have what I never had.

I thought my cootie would pick a mate that would be kind, and gentle, and caring. Instead, I get the sa-khui Oscar the Grouch, minus the garbage can.

“You would ask me to give up my chance at a mate?” Haeden’s voice is incredulous.

That was mean Josie

Do you think this ache for you would go away if your khui was gone?”

Sobbinggggg

You think there is nothing worse than resonating to me? I know what is worse. The silence in your chest when your mate is gone.”

😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔

I’ve already cried over that, and I won’t give it more time in my head. I shake the bad memories away and focus on the good things.

I don’t know who’s more surprised to see me running at them, full throttle with a flaming blanket - Haeden or the metlaks.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

how wonderful it feels just to have someone touch me with simple happiness. I’ve never been hugged much, and I can see right away why some people are addicted to cuddling.

🥺🥺🥺🥺

“It is easy to say words, Jo-see. It is another to mean them.”

And call me crazy, but it makes me feel…good. Someone cares enough about me to get angry on my behalf. I’ve never had that before.