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Chapter 81: “…more than a friend, a brother…”
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“What do you need a vial of Derek’s blood for?” Asher asks, looking at me with his brows bent with confusion. “I want to make something.” I say with a huge smile on my face. “What does that even mean? Alexa, I’m sure this has hit you hard, maybe you need a break.” “I’m not crazy with grief, Asher. I’ll tell you my plan but not here.” I gesture to the guard wolf who is still looking in our direction with open curiosity. Asher glances at him and nods, understanding my point. “Come with me.”I follow him to the back of the residence of the alpha/luna, to the place where there are rooms for guard wolfs in the compound. One of the rooms is empty so Asher lets me enter before bolting it from the inside. “Okay, tell me everything, right from the beginning.” Asher says, settling into a chair in the room. “We’ve been so out of it because of…what happened, that we forgot how it happened in the first place.” “Liana.” Asher says, understanding the point I’m making. “Exactly!”“So where does Derek
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I run after Asher and get to him just as he’s crossing the gate of Sue’s house. “Wait!” Asher stops walking away and turns, watching me walk up to him. “Just wait a minute, think this through, please.” I say with pleading eyes. Asher sighs and runs a hand through his hair “I promised him, Alexa. He handed everything over to me, I can’t just leave it all behind.” “They could kill you.” Asher cups my cheek and smiles. “I’ll be fine. We’ve already got Liana right? Who else would hurt me?”“You know, I always wondered why Dorothea called you Luna, now I know why.” He says with a small smile. “What do you mean? What do you know?” Asher shakes his head, then he walks away. “Go after him.” Sue says when I return to the house. “I can’t change his mind.” I say quietly. “He promised his friend on his dying bed, it’s going to take a whole lot to change his mind.” Valor says from where his sitting.Maybe he was right. I should give Asher some space and then try to convince him to change his mind.
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As Asher walks towards me, I feel myself moving back from the blaze of heat in his eyes, until my back hits the wall and I have nowhere else to run to. Asher reaches me and places his palm flat on the wall beside my head and he fixes his other hand on the wall beside my hips. No part of Asher’s body is touching mine but I am breathless, as if he’s touched me already.“Hey.” He says with his vibrating deep voice. “Hi.” I say back, sounding breathless. His lips pull up into a smile and he lowers his head towards my lips. My eyes flutter close and Ida growls. Suddenly, I remember where we are and my eyes pop back open. I push Asher away and step out of his space, where I can be able to think clearly.“We can’t do this here!” I say quietly but he leans against the wall, arms folded, like he has no worries in the world. “So we are still going to hide this.” It’s not a question, but I answer anyway. “Yes! I don’t want to be your Luna, Asher.” “Well, we are mates and I’m the alpha, so that a
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“Wolf Python?” Muriel asks in shock. “Yes, this was the poison used to kill my brother, this was the murder weapon used by Asher to kill him.” Ramsey digs out a folded piece of paper from his pocket, unfolds it and holds it up. “This is a blood test report conducted with my brother’s blood. High amounts of wolf python was found in his blood.”The report gets passed around as I can do nothing but watch and bite my nails nervously. No, that’s not right, you can do something, you can walk out there and tell them the truth and take the heat for him. Could I do that? Was I ready to give it all up for him?“What have you to say for yourself, Asher?” Muriel asks. “Anyone could have entered my room and put that vial there, what really makes it so certain I killed the alpha?” Asher replies calmly. That makes them pause, I’m starting to think that we might have a chance at this when Ramsey speaks again. “If the blood test and vial doesn’t make it certain, then how do you explain the strange ord
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“What?” Asher says, as his brows dip in confusion. “What do you mean?” “It is just as I said, Asher.” Muriel replies, a smug smile on his face. Ares steps forward “That is your alpha, show him some respect!” “Is he really an alpha?” Ares rushes at Muriel but is stopped by Asher. “That’s enough, Ares. Let him be.” With one last angry look at Muriel (who doesn’t look bothered), Ares goes back to standing behind Asher.“Where was I? Right, this is an impromptu trial of you, Asher for the poisoning and death of our beloved alpha, Derek. Since the matter was a serious one, the council of elders agreed that you be brought in for a trial immediately.” “What council? I fired you all weeks ago.” “Since you are a suspected criminal, the decrees you made while you were alpha will not stand and so the council of elders are back in their positions.” Asher stands. “You keep on calling me a criminal and a murderer. Now you refer to me as alpha in a past tense.” Muriel shoots Asher a huge smile. “We
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“Don’t do anything stupid.” I had said to Asher, and he had agreed, at least with his lips but not his heart. Why else would he go on to do something stupid the very next day? After talking last night, we had fallen asleep, wrapped in each other’s arms and limbs. It was probably the most comfortable sleep I had ever had. When I woke up that morning and didn’t see Asher in bed beside me, I assumed his ‘vacation’ was over and he was about to start his first day as the alpha. After our talk last night, I was feeling a bit more open to the idea of him being the alpha, especially because he had agreed not to do anything stupid.The day had started off well, I had decided to resume work and was happily washing dishes and pans, humming a tune to myself. When afternoon rolled by and all the elders of the pack began to enter into the residence of the alpha/luna, I thought nothing of it and just assumed they were here to start their work with the new alpha.Evening came and the sky was slowly b
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As Asher walks towards me, I feel myself moving back from the blaze of heat in his eyes, until my back hits the wall and I have nowhere else to run to. Asher reaches me and places his palm flat on the wall beside my head and he fixes his other hand on the wall beside my hips. No part of Asher’s body is touching mine but I am breathless, as if he’s touched me already.“Hey.” He says with his vibrating deep voice. “Hi.” I say back, sounding breathless. His lips pull up into a smile and he lowers his head towards my lips. My eyes flutter close and Ida growls. Suddenly, I remember where we are and my eyes pop back open. I push Asher away and step out of his space, where I can be able to think clearly.“We can’t do this here!” I say quietly but he leans against the wall, arms folded, like he has no worries in the world. “So we are still going to hide this.” It’s not a question, but I answer anyway. “Yes! I don’t want to be your Luna, Asher.” “Well, we are mates and I’m the alpha, so that a
