Chapter 270

Mason

The party had been a great time, but I’d spent the rest of it unable to stop thinking about how easily 2

Zane

had calmed me down. If he hadn’t come along, I might really have kept pushing Asher. Both of us would’ve let

our wolves out to fight. It would’ve ruined Quinn’s party, but also wrecked whatever remained of our friendship

and made it unsalvageable. I was still hoping that even if we couldn’t be as close as we’d been, at least Asher

and I didn’t have to be enemies.

“I owe you,” I told Zane. “You really saved my a ss.”

He smiled a little. “Yeah, I know. But it wasn’t my place.”

“It could be,” I said boldly.

I’d been pacing up and down, my body full of nervous energy about everything that had gone on. Now I

stopped to face Zane on the couch. Xander was at my side, but respectfully quiet.

“I don’t want you to feel like you have to be my Beta just because of the connection. You and Xander have

obligation to pledge to anyone else, even if we

Alpha strength from the same source. That doesn’t make us the

stood to face me “I don’t want you to

or because we’re already linked. I know you

or

feel like that’s what you were trying to do. It

me, too,” Zane admitted and turned to Xander.

to you.”

“I know that, Beta.”

soft, comforting Luna energy, and a slightly harder and more forceful but reassuring pulse from Xander. Their

Became less like a rubber band, ready to snap, and more like a ribbon wrapping a gift we

open

between me and Xander, and the triangle became a circle. “You both

obvious to me and also to Xander

dancing around this. It’s

we realized we were able to use the mind link with

about it, too,”

looked startled, then narrowed his eyes. The two of you talked about

idn’t vous

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for you. It’s always had to be something you felt

***

Zane

but Instead, a rush of gratitude flooded me. Clearly,

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