Alpha Asher by Jane

Chapter 208

Chapter 208 

The trip home was filled with silence.

It wasn’t the comfortable kind that faded

into the background and made your

eyelids grow heavy as the purr of the car’s engine droned on and on.

This one was full of tension and unspoken words that were so loud they needn’t be spoken at all.

 

Zeke, Clara, and Mason hitched a ride with Asher and I since Tessa was currently tied up and unconscious in the back of the work van Breyona drove. Giovanni and Tristan had no choice but to sit back there as well considering they were the only windows blacked out from the rising sun.

It would’ve been safer to wait until dark to move, but we didn’t have the time to

waste.

There was no telling if Ember would come back for her twin with more witches, and now that the location of the safe haven was compromised, we needed every spare warrior available to protect the territory.

It did help that Deacon, Dina, and Spence stayed behind, but there was still the risk

of the witches attacking during the day.

Since my nerves were too frayed to sleep, I spent the entire drive home thinking of ways to magically protect the safe haven Asher and I created.

Undoubtedly, Cordelia would be able to help. She could use her protection magic to cast an alarm – like spell, one that would alert us if any witches crossed the boundary, but it would do nothing to give us a heads up

I’d been able to turn a Vampire into a

Werewolf and a Werewolf into a shadow creature, so I couldn’t help but toy with the idea of somehow creating a protective shield over the land. It was a solid plan, but I’d have to be extremely specific on who would be allowed through. 2

By the time we made it to the pack’s boundary lines, I had a stronger idea of what I wanted to do.

would take a crap ton of energy, but a shield was exactly what the safe haven needed. Vampires without ill-intentions would

transported Tessa into one of the reinforced holding cells, I ran my plan by

been in the middle of

of Sage through every corner of each room. She’d been hesitant over

very reluctantly gave me a bundle of some bitter smelling plant she called Hemlock. There wasn’t a drug or herb on this planet that could take away a witch’s power, but this poisonous root would make it harder for Tessa to have access to

remained when I made my way down to the prison

glass boxes with cots inside, you could almost

doing here?” I asked

Tessa through the observation glass, his arms crossed over his chest as he leaned

chairs looking just as distraught as he had hours ago,

asked the same

said before. What’s it fucking matter? Her twin nearly melted my head off

with a surprising

leveled a look in his

that was scarily calm.

brother’s stare for a few tension-filled

if she says anything useful.” He muttered,

he reached the door that would lead to the winding staircase that brought you to the

at the spot. Brandon had occupied when he said, “ I’m going

I asked, placing a hand on his arm to stop

of his jaw and lips softened when he turned to look

anything out. Let’s hope I get to him before he finds

through Asher’s whiskey collection.

Asher and Brandon gone, I had nothing left to do but fixate on Zeke’s forlorn stare

on.

cell, her back to the wall and her feet stretched out

her. There was dried blood on her forehead, peeling where it reached the corner

she said anything?” I

find my mate. It wasn’t until I saw you and Asher together

was terrifying to think that the selfless man who dropped everything to help Asher and I wouldn’t get the future he deserved. Even with

spoken to

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