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

you were pups. You’re under no obligation to pledge to

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

“I don’t want you to feel

you

you or break that

feel like that’s what you were

admitted and turned to

to you.”

“I know that, Beta.”

Zane at the point. I felt a pulse of soft, comforting Luna energy, and a slightly harder and more forceful but reassuring

tension between me and Zane that had been tightening didn’t go away, but it eased. Became less like

open

became a circle. “You both are trying

me and also to Xander that

turned to Zane. “She’s right. We can’t keep dancing around this. It’s been at the back

able to use the

about it, too,” Xander

his eyes. The two of you talked

idn’t vous

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decide for you. It’s always had to

***

Zane

back, but Instead, a rush of gratitude flooded me. Clearly, both of them cared enough to want me to be all right. I grabbed each of them by the bicep. They each put an arm behind Lanie’s

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