Asher's POVI stayed by the door to listen for a while longer to hear what they were saying. Philip was getting very angry and he even had to yell. After he yelled, the room fell deathly silent, it was like that sound was something that was not often seen and Tristan was still very not used to it. I wanted to fall over in laughter. However, it was still a little sad. To other people, Lyra and I were heartless for thinking of pulling such a trick against two friends. But Tristan did not deserve such loyalty from Philip. I know and acknowledge that everybody has their own shortcomings but Tristan's was specifically too short and he never even tried to deal with it. He never tried to change, to look at his flaws in the eyes and fight against it. I was even sure that whenever he tried to reflect on his actions, there was nothing to reflect on. He would not see his actions as anything that needed to be reflected on.I hated that attribute of Tristan the most. He was my friend but I wasn'
Lyra's POV.I had squatted down when I had approached Philip when he had gone to sit on the bed. After he said those words to me, I immediately sprung up to my feet. This reaction was not in any way fake. It was actually quite surprising that Tristan's plan wasn't to just simply want to get rid of everyone in the pack. What he was really after was the power. He wanted to be the alpha of the pack, he wanted to rule.I didn't know how it had reached where we were currently at, my job was to make him realize the kind of a scumbag that Tristan was but as he spoke about Tristan I realized that Tristan wasn't only a scumbag but he was a monster as well. He wanted to rule the world. He wanted to conquer so many packs because he wanted his voice to be the loudest when he spoke. I couldn't believe what I was hearing.When he finishes with the silver moon pack, would he attack the neighbors, the neighbors who were also called the blood river pack.As the day dragged on, I was very elated that
Asher's POVTristan frowned, he looked quizzically, kike he was trying to out together the possibility of that happening. His gaze was direct and distinct but I was busy eating away on the chicken drumstick that came with the spaghetti. I didn't want to seem like I had given the words I said much thought. I wanted him to believe that it was just an offhand comment on my side.I was pushing the ball to his court, waiting for him, waiting for his move that would surely determine my next move.However, he shook his head.I was a bit disappointed but I did know that what I was planning to.do was not going to go as swimmingly as I wanted it to. In life, we don't always get what we want and so I had to make do with his unbelief. I just need to hear his words and then I'll know what to do or say."There's no way she can pull off something like that". Tristan said, "Lyra is dumb as bitch, such conspiracies are too big for her to fathom".I shrugged as I swallowed another mouthful of spaghetti
Asher's POVI was surely taken aback by those words. I never thought that such an idea would form in his head. The main reason we were doing this wasn't to make either of them kill the other but it was so that their friendship would come to an end and that Philip would pull his troops away. However, it was starting to dawn on me that Tristan was nothing like he had made himself to seem. For one, he made everyone believe that Philip was his best friend. That he was the only person that he could trust. That Philip was that friend he would choose above all others.At one point before I got to know the kind of douchebag Tristan actually was, I had been a bit jealous of their friendship. There was such an understanding between them and it was even more unpleasant knowing that it had been Tristan and I since we were kids. I had been with him when his family was killed.However, knowing him now, I wondered what even brought those absurd ideas into.my.head because Tristan was undeserving of
Asher's POV"Devlin?"I said out of shock or maybe excitement. However, I didn't really care. She was sitting down, leaning on the headboard and her face held a smug look. She looked very beautiful even with the bandage around her head.It was good that she was awake, there were a number of things I needed from her. If she was in more critical condition, I would've suffered greatly. What I had said to Tristan last night regarding Devlin was the truth. I didn't need to like her, my pack needed things I couldn't give to them."For someone who said they couldn't stand the sight of me, you sure are very excited to see me," she said. There was a ghost of a smile on her face."My wordings have been very inappropriate. I'm very sorry Dev," i apologized."Your wordings" she pointed out, "though they were inappropriate but they conveyed the truth, right?"I shook my head, and walked closer to her bed. She was watching my every move. I knew the things I had said to her had been mean and very in
Asher's POVThat request from Devlin was a bit too much but I had no choice but to concede, I had been the one solely responsible for the situation we had found ourselves in. She was innocent, her only crime was falling in love with me. She did nothing wrong by being a good wife, a fantastic person and if this was what she demanded as a consolation, then that was exactly what I was going to give to her.She knew that the marriage would be helpful to both of our packs but she also knew that if she wanted to divorce me, a lot of people would take her side she had been nothing but a good wife, i had been the treacherous, cheating husband who busied himself staring at another woman who wasn't his wife and of course, I would get many bashes. Many people would be against me, calling me names and many other things and it would reflect poorly on my back but Devlin would be pitied and a lot of people would praise her for taking the step to obliterate such a marriage.In other words, she didn't
Asher's POVI couldn't believe Devlin's words. It was too hard to match Tristan and the possibility of him eating a human being up. It was disgusting and very nerve wracking. I didn't know if her words were true because I know Devlin can sometimes be prone to lying. I wasn't just going to believe her with no proof whatsoever."That cannot be true," I said to her.However, the expression on her face seemed to convey the fact that she wasn't exactly expecting me to believe her words. She looked so unfazed and very uninterested in whether I believed her or not. It was like she had other things to worry about and I wasn't one of them.She just adjusted her position before saying to me: "before I left, I had informed my mother about where i was headed. She told me to be careful and all that mothers usually say and I tried to wave it off as her being too much but then she pulled me down and told me everything".I scoffed, it didn't sound a bit believable to the ears, "what are you even sayi
Lyra's POVAfter telling Asher about what I had been told by Philip, I decided to return to the room. Staying in that environment with Asher looking like that was too much for me to handle. All through the conversation, I was trying hard to not look at his body, his bare body was such a temptation.I bolted out the door the minute I could.When I returned to the room, I saw that Philip was not awake yet. The words he had said to me resurfaced in my head. I couldn't believe that he allowed himself to be so vulnerable to me. He easily admitted the things that were plaguing him and his fear of Tristan.I had succeeded in planting in his head the idea that Tristan was coming after him.and he had by himself, calculated the things that Tristan stood to gain from such an action. I knew Asher would be doing the same, he would be trying to convince Tristan to actually attempt to kill Philip or me.It was the plan and we were going to do everything possible to save Philip if Tristan did make su