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 nearby trash barrel. “F uck you,

him. He was climbing the stairs, but I caught up to him at the landing. He shoved off my

the door behind us.

know I have some

it sound

lessons. You f ucked off 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

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

shared with Asher.

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

arrogant p rick

of the pack you should be

“Tm the Alpha, too

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steps away from me. Confusion filtered

“Orion’s dead.”

“You did it?”

“No. It’s a

time,” Asher said in a tone so cold it raised the hair on the back of my neck. “So

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

died, I got his

“And Xander lost them?”

shook my head, turning

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 him in

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