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?”

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

but I caught up to him at the landing. He shoved

the door behind us.

“I know I

it sound like

ucked off to Constantine, and

out to him through our mind link and found only

was blocking me, or if my new bond with Xander, Zane, and

shared with Asher.

f uck your sorry. You’re buddy-buddy down there with that arrogant pri

rick is my

of the

“Tm the Alpha, too

1/2

me.

“Orion’s dead.”

“You did it?”

my head. “No. It’s a

in a tone so cold it raised the hair on the back of my neck. “So you’d better

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

died, I got his Alpha

“And Xander lost them?”

head, turning at

ucked up. All of this is supremely f ucked up. But you should already know that.” Asher