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 clatter of glass into

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

the door behind us.

“I know I have

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

ucked off to Constantine, and

through our mind link and found only a steel wall.

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

shared with Asher.

uck your sorry. You’re buddy-buddy down

arrogant p rick

the pack you should be

“Tm the Alpha, too

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

“Orion’s dead.”

“You did it?”

“No.

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

together on the rocker. Without turning around, I sketched out the

he died, I got his Alpha

“And Xander lost them?”

head, turning at last. “We’re both

up. But you should already know that.” Asher shook

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