Chapter 229

“He feels like sh it about it.”
“Yeah, I know. I can sense him.” An awkward silence stretched between us. “Look, we’ve never talked about us both being Alphas with only one Beta.”
too.
“It’s bad enough I have to share my Luna with you,” Xander growled. “Don’t think you can have my Beta,
“I’m not trying to take him from you, or even ask you to share. But I need one, man. An Alpha without a Beta is…” I trailed off, trying to find the words to describe exactly what I meant. “Hollow.”
He’d been bristling, but after a moment or so, Xander’s tension eased. “Yeah. I get it. I can’t just give him, to you. You have to build that relationship, and he’s got to want it, too.”
“And I don’t see how I could realistically bring in my own,” I added, my mind fighting to figure out all the contortions that dynamic would take.

“F uck, no. No other men,” Xander said through bared teeth.
I grabbed two beers from the fridge and handed him one as he looked again out the window. I could feel Zane outside. He hadn’t changed into his wolf, but I knew he wanted to. Needed to. Not just because it made sense, or because it’s what I could imagine I’d want or need right now, but because I literally felt his rising urge
like it was my own.
F ucking freaky.
“He needs to run,” I said, but mildly, aware of how touchy this subject already was….and how much more ticklish it could end up getting.
“I know what my Beta needs,” Xander shot back.
I cracked the top off the beer and sipped it, letting the cold crispness run across my tongue. I
concentrated on the full sensations of carbonated, hops, yeast, sugars. I took them all in, and I sent them all.
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Xander shuddered. “Cut that out”
“I’m just showing you, man. I know what he needs, too. We don’t have to like any of this, but it’s our life now.” I sipped again and watched Xander’s throat work as he swallowed.
With a mutter, he popped off the cap from his own beer and drank greedily. Lanie came back into the kitchen and held out her hand so he could pass her the bottle for a sip. She drank more daintily.
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