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

together since you were pups. You’re under no obligation to pledge to anyone else, even if we

source. That doesn’t make us the same men

want you to feel like you have to pick me just because

because we’re already linked. I know you and Asher had a strong bond. I wasn’t

you or

that.” I shook my head. “And it didn’t feel like that’s what you

felt to me, too,” Zane admitted and turned to Xander. “Alpha, you

to you.”

“I know that, Beta.”

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

us. The tension between me and Zane that had been tightening didn’t go away, but it eased. Became less like a rubber band, ready to snap, and

open

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

obvious to me and also

keep dancing around this. It’s been

we were able to use the mind

thinking about it, too,”

his eyes. The two of you talked about

idn’t vous

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decide for you. It’s always had to

***

Zane

gratitude flooded me. Clearly,

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