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?”

That’s rich.” He drained the bottle and tossed it with a

but I caught up to him at the landing. He

the door behind us.

know I have

uck, You,” Asher gritted out. “Explaining? You make it sound like you stepped

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

I tried to reach out to him through our mind link and found only a

if my new bond with Xander, Zane, and Lanie had broken

shared with Asher.

your sorry. You’re buddy-buddy down there with that arrogant pri ck Asher

arrogant p rick is

the Alpha of the

“Tm the Alpha, too

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from me. Confusion

“Orion’s dead.”

“You did it?”

“No. It’s a

said 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

backyard, scanning it for sight of Lanie. She and Quinn were still sitting together on the rocker. Without turning around,

died, I got

“And Xander lost them?”

turning at last. “We’re both the

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

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