NovelEnglishChapter 419 Mason | grunted as | hefted the weights and then set them down. Over the past few days, all the work Xander and | 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 | knew was coming. | 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.
| for so long before my body only ceilin So, that’s what | did, in a big, sweaty heap on the mats. | stared at the and listened to the heave and grunt of everyone else working out around me.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtXander kicked my foot. “Bro. You ready to head back to the apartment?” “Yeah. Let's go.” | let him helpup.
We by pas sed the gym shower and headed for home.
We didn’t talk on the way back. There didn’t seem to be Be to say.
If I was wrung out from the past couple of hours, my brother had to be twice as tired, both in his body and his mind. After all, it was his mother who'd turned out to be a spy for the High Council. Worse, she somehow was totally unaware of it, which meant that none of us could let her know that we did.
This was all kinds of f ucked.
I'd been doing my best not to give any hints, but it had been da mned hard over the past week not to 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 Stella to commemorate all the birthdays she’d missed, but that was the last tshe'd really spent twith us.
| could tell it was weighing on 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 talkedout of it. She toldwe needed to respect Xander’s distance from us so he could manage his own emotions.
I knew she was right...all the same, I'd spent my life resenting my brother and a lot less twanting the best for him. | hated doing anything, or rather, not doing something that I felt could help him.
He put a hand on my arm before we went through the front door to our place. “Listen. Lknow we're not 1/2 Chapter 419 supposed to be bothering with any of the security s hit anymore, but it doesn’t feel right to wait around with our thumbs up our as s es. You feel the sway, right? It’s not just me.” “Nah. I'm bored as f uck, man.” | lowered my voice.
Since learning about the spiders and the High Councils ability to see through Gabriela’s eyes, | was trying to be careful about what I said out loud.
“We're Alphas,” Xander said. “We're not meant for all this waiting and watching bu Ils hit.” | laughed and lightly punched his shoulder. “We could go for a run. Colt’s still pretty tired from the last time, but I'm sure | could convince him...” The door to our apartment opened to reveal our Luna.
“What are you two doing standing out here?” Over her shoulder, | spotted Zane. Both of them had wide grins and the giddy attitude of kids waiting to open their New Moon Festival gifts. When Xander and | went into the living room, he stopped so short | nearly ran into him.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm“What's all this?” he said with a low, amused chuckle | looked at the table, set with a fancy cloth and dishes.
Candles. “It's the middle of the day.” “We have the place to ourselves until after dinner,” Lanie said as she ctoward us.
She wore a sheer nightgown that clung to her curves.
It showed off the dusky hints of her nipples and the shadowy thatch between her thighs. Her curls were piled high with a few hanging down to temptinto thinking what it would be like to spiral them around my fingers.
“Do you like what you see?” Lanie asked.
My co ck certainly did. It was already thickening.
When | watched Zane cup behind her and kiss her shoulder, bared by the neckline of the nightgown, got even harder.
“I figured you two would be all tuckered out,” Xander said around a growl, “I sensed you were making love earlier.” “Lucky for you,” Zane said, gesturing at his first Alpha. “We're ready for more.”
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