Mated to the Alpha and His Beta

Chapter 265

Mason

“Asher!”

Quickly, I went over to my best friend where he stood on Quinn’s deck. Asher held a bottle of beer in one hand. He didn’t reach out his other to shake mine. I paused, my arm extended, and slowly drew it back against my body.

He looked pis sed, but when I tried to sense his deeper feelings, the layers and permutations of emotion, I

couldn’t reach him.

“I didn’t see you before. Did you just get here?” I asked.

He nodded and tipped the bottle to his lips. He took a long drink, swallowing before finally answering in a distant, bored tone. “Yep. Wasn’t sure I was going to come, since my sister told me you were going to be here.”

S hit. This wasn’t going to be good. I took a deep breath, again tried to find a sense of his feelings, and got

nothing.

“Why don’t we go somewhere to talk that’s more private?” I said with a jerk of my chin inside the house.

Asher’s lip curled, and I saw a flash of his wolf rise in his eyes. “Nah. I’m good. Go on and enjoy the party.”

“Dude,” I said roughly but keeping my voice low to keep people from overhearing. “Are you going to be an

as shole about this?”

it with a clatter of glass into

I went after him. He was climbing the stairs, but I caught up to him at the landing. He

the door behind us.

“I know I

You make it sound like you stepped on my toe when

to Constantine, and you never f ucking

through our mind link and

bond with Xander, Zane,

shared with Asher.

sorry. You’re buddy-buddy down there with that

arrogant p rick is

of the pack

“Tm the Alpha, too

1/2

away from me. Confusion filtered over

“Orion’s dead.”

“You did it?”

head. “No. It’s a

got time,” Asher said in a tone so cold it raised the hair on the

and Quinn were still sitting together on the rocker. Without turning

I got

“And Xander lost them?”

I shook my head, turning at last. “We’re

ucked up. All of this is supremely f ucked up. But you should already know that.” Asher shook his head. His voice had gotten quieter,