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?”

with a clatter of glass into the nearby trash barrel.

and stalked away into the house. I went after him. He was climbing the stairs, but I caught up to him at the landing. He shoved off my

the door behind us.

I began. “I know I have some

Asher gritted out. “Explaining? You make it sound like

to Constantine, and you never f

sorry” I tried to reach out to him through our mind link and found only a steel wall. I couldn’t tell

me, or if my new bond with

shared with Asher.

f uck your sorry. You’re buddy-buddy down

arrogant p rick is my

the

“Tm the Alpha, too

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away from me. Confusion filtered over his face. Then rage.

“Orion’s dead.”

“You did it?”

shook my head. “No.

in a tone so cold it raised the hair on the back of my neck. “So you’d better get talking, or I’m out of

She and Quinn were still sitting together on the rocker. Without turning around, I sketched out

when he died, I got

“And Xander lost them?”

turning at last. “We’re

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

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