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

pups. You’re under no obligation to pledge to anyone else,

the same source. That doesn’t make us the same men or

and stood to face me “I don’t want you to feel

because we’re already linked. I know you and Asher had a

or

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

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

to you.”

“I know that, Beta.”

I felt a pulse of soft, comforting Luna energy, and a slightly harder and more forceful but reassuring pulse from Xander. Their combined forces mingled,

had been tightening didn’t go away, but it eased. Became less like a rubber band, ready to snap, and

open

and the triangle became a circle. “You both are trying

toes, but it’s obvious to me and also to

can’t keep dancing around this. It’s been at the back of

realized we were able to use

thinking about

startled, then narrowed his eyes.

idn’t vous

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It’s always had to be something you

***

Zane

gratitude flooded me. Clearly, both

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