Chapter 252

Zane

My body ached from the hours I’d spent with the ax. We had enough firewood to heat the entire house for a dozen winters by the time Xander came out and told me that we were giving our wolves a run. Now my muscles ached with a different kind of soreness.

Xander stretched, naked, next to the small stream. He bent to cup the water and drink deeply. I admired the strong lines of his back and shoulders. When he turned around to see me staring, he shot me a wide, arrogant grin.

“Like what you see?”

“Always,” I admitted. “Just thinking how much you’ve changed over the years.

His smile faded and softened. His eyes lit with a glow from his wolf that mine immediately answered. “We

both have.”

“Did you ever wonder what it would’ve been like if you’d had a different Beta?” I joined him by the side of the stream and bent to scoop up my own drink

face and then over each shoulder to stream down my bare back. The water wasn’t deep enough to swim in, or I felt like

if the urge to dive in had been my

be no better Beta for me than you.” He nudged my shoulder with

water. It ran over our calves. I curled my toes

born to be your Beta. But what if someone

dude? The Moon Goddess gave you to me the same way she gave Lanie to us. What’s the point in worrying

and pulled my feet up to the edge of the stream.

position, grasping one of his wrists while his arms linked around his knees. He stared out over the stream to the trees beyond. A deer had come out of the woods and stood staring at us, her ears twitching. When heither of us moved, she bent to crop at

Beta. Yeah, Mason’s part of our lives now, and there doesn’t seem to be much we can do about that. But he could never replace you, Zane. You

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telling me the truth because, just like it had been since we were pups, I could feel it. I rubbed at

“I know I just don’t know

either,” I admitted. “I feel like

We don’t love what you had to do…I f ucking hate the thought of you being with her but you did not

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