Mated to the Alpha and His Beta

Chapter 419

Mason

I grunted as I hefted the weights and then set them down. Over the past few days, all the work Xander and I had been doing had been set aside. Useless.

Unnecessary. That put us right back where we’d been before…and for me, that was bored out of my f ucking mind.

Sure, danger loomed on the h orizon, but when hadn’t it? It felt like I’d spent my entire life waiting for something to happen, being held back from what I knew was coming. I was f ucking sick of it.

Working out helped to keep the frustration at bay, but I could only

refused to do a single more thing other than collapse.

I

for so long before my body

only ceilin

So, that’s what I did, in a big, sweaty heap on the mats. I stared at the and listened to the heave and grunt of everyone else working out around me.

Xander kicked my foot. “Bro. You ready to head back to the apartment?”

“Yeah. Let’s go.” I let him help me up.

the gym

the way back. There didn’t seem to

his body and his mind. After all, it was his mother who’d turned

kinds of

be acting suspiciously, but she did seem quieter than usual. She’d had a nice little party for Stella to commemorate all the birthdays she’d missed,

her son, even if he wasn’t sharing anything with the rest of us. Xander was trying too hard to be strong. I’d thought about asking Stella to work on him, but Lanie had guessed my plan and talked me out of it. She told me we needed to respect Xander’s distance from us so he could manage

own emotions.

less time wanting the best for him. I hated doing anything, or rather, not doing something

arm before we went through the front

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the security s hit anymore, but it doesn’t feel right to wait around with our thumbs up our

as f uck, man.” I

about the spiders and

see through Gabriela’s eyes, I was trying to be

for

Colt’s still pretty tired from the last

door to our apartment

two doing standing out

the giddy attitude of kids waiting to open their New Moon Festival gifts. When Xander and I

ran into him.