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?”

shole? That’s rich.” He drained the bottle and tossed it with a clatter of glass into the

went after him. He was climbing the stairs, but I caught up to him at the landing. He shoved off my arm from his sleeve and

the door behind us.

began. “I know

Asher gritted out. “Explaining? You make it sound like you stepped on my

lessons. You f ucked off to Constantine, and you never f ucking came

to reach out to him through our mind link and

if my new bond with Xander,

shared with Asher.

You’re buddy-buddy

rick

the Alpha of the pack you should be

“Tm the Alpha, too

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took a few steps away from me.

“Orion’s dead.”

“You did it?”

“No. It’s a

hair on the back of my

went to the window overlooking the backyard, scanning it for sight of Lanie. She and Quinn were still sitting together on the rocker. Without turning around, I sketched out the confrontation with Orion, and how the vampire

when he died, I got his Alpha

“And Xander lost them?”

my head, turning at

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