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.

by pas sed the gym shower and headed

didn’t talk on the way back. There didn’t seem to be much

his mother who’d turned out to be a spy for the High Council. Worse, she somehow was totally

kinds

question Gabriela about her every move. She hadn’t seemed to be acting suspiciously, but she did seem quieter than usual. She’d had a nice little party for

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

own emotions.

I’d spent my life resenting my brother and a lot less time wanting the

hand on my arm before we went through the

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

bored as f uck, man.”

learning about the spiders and

see through Gabriela’s eyes, I was trying

for all this waiting and watching

and lightly punched his shoulder. “We could go for a run. Colt’s

to our apartment opened to reveal our

two doing

the giddy attitude of kids waiting to open their New Moon Festival gifts. When Xander and I went into the living room, he stopped so short I

ran into him.