Alpha Asher by Jane

Chapter 231

It was terrifying how easy it was to use my magic now.

A single thought woven with intention, entwined with a thread of energy, and reality itself bent beneath my hands.

Holly and I left the garage, walking through the kitchen and into the living room where everyone had gathered. Breyona was talking animatedly to Mason and Clara, while the two Vampire’s standing close by watched with interest. Dad and Asher had come back inside and were now sitting on the sofa still deep in conversation. 1

Asher’s head snapped up, his eyes locked on my face as Holly, and I entered the room. There was no dark light of suspicion in his eyes, only exhaustion and endless love. He opened his muscular arms and I stepped into them, my breath catching as I waited for what might happen next.

What my mate didn’t know was that the girl he held in his arms wasn’t real.

Through one of the many living room windows, Holly and I watched the illusion I crafted unfold. Everything, from the stitching on our clothes to the part of Holly’s hair, was a product of my magic. I’d taken the extra precautions to make the illusion tangible on the off chance someone was to reach out and touch one of us. Nothing would blow our cover like a hand passing through our arm or torso, proving we were made of nothing more than mist and magic.

It took seconds to conjure up two clones of us, to slip through the front door without a single person in the house noticing. Without Rowena’s cursed amulet around my neck, it was all too easy.

“It’s a little unsettling, isn’t it? Seeing yourself from a distance.” Holly murmured in a low voice, even though it wasn’t needed.

Another droplet of magic and any sound we made was undetectable. The Shadows themselves cloaked us outside, obscuring our forms from the window we stood in front of.

I couldn’t bring myself to answer her.

Guilt ran rampant in my chest the longer

looked at Asher. He and Breyona were talking to me- to the illusion. Their lips moved, but I didn’t dare tune into what they

I took sting in my lungs, but I couldn’t-wouldn’t lose anyone else.

time and I need to make a pit stop.” I ushered Holly away

going down the driveway to where Tristan had parked the sedan. A tiny push of magic and the engine rumbled to life. With betrayal roaring in my head, an acrid backdrop to the song the dark magic whispered in my veins, Holly and I peeled out of the driveway and into

by the way she tapped out a hasty rhythm on the armrest, eyes scanning the passing

brought up a time when I’d been afraid of driving. I wasn’t sure when that fear had subsided, but at this very moment, I felt absolutely nothing. Blame it on

do this?” Holly asked, her voice

their windows darkened, and open signs flipped to closed. Most of the parking lots were

them, the illusions will slowly unravel. I’d say we have an hour

form of a kick to the gut, an eerie feeling that smacked me upside the head and demanded I

pit stop within ten minutes, swinging into

a strange note

knew why we were here and what my plan was. I wasn’t going to waste the time answering.

back in five.” I turned away, closing the driver side

over my body and erasing my form from view. To Holly, it would look like I had vanished in thin air,

front of my face, encasing

into the Hospital through the ambulance’s bay doors, one step closer

a sea of colorful scrubs that blurred as they passed. There weren’t any more than a dozen, and while they moved with purpose they lacked that sense of urgency present when someone was

for them. For me, it was anything

phrases I didn’t know the meaning to. More than once I had to move out of

main desk failed to notice me pass. As for the badge I snagged, one of them would be missing that, but they’d most