Alpha Asher by Jane

Read Alpha Asher by Jane Doe Chapter 187

The conversation between Giovanni and I replayed in my head as I traipsed upstairs and collapsed into bed. Even after it had run its course, I fought the sleep that tried to claim me and focused on mind-linking Asher.

Another hour had passed, one without any success.

I’d considered reaching out to Zeke, but after pouring all of my remaining energy into getting through to Asher, I had nothing left to expend. In a haze of utter exhaustion, I slipped away into a restless, dreamless sleep.

I wasn’t sure how much time had passed, but the sun had yet to risen when I was yanked from sleep. The bedroom was cloaked in absolute darkness, even with the beams of moonlight streaming through the curtains. Luckily, I didn’t need light to tell who was hovering over me, their hand pressed firmly over my mouth.

It was his eyes I noticed first, the sight of them telling me that something was very, very wrong.

They were entirely gold, practically glowing in the darkness as they stared at me with a heat that belonged solely to a predator. When Asher would battle with his wolf, often flecks of gold would swirl in his dark eyes, but rarely were they completely overtaken.

I grew still beneath him when his chest began to rumble, a growl building in his throat. He didn’t seem to register my mumbling against his hand, trying to coax him off whatever ledge he managed to stumble onto.

There was nothing soft about his face. Every inch was cast in sharp angles and harsh planes. Not an ounce of recognition flowed through him, but without a doubt in my mind, the man hovering above me was in fact my mate. Even if he couldn’t see that himself.

I tried not to show fear, but it was hard when the other half of your soul looked at you with such ferocity.

He leaned in close, pressing his nose against my neck. A gasp lingered in my throat, but I kept the sound at bay. What I couldn’t control was my heart, which stammered as a momentary blip of fear took hold. His mouth was uncomfortably close to my throat, bringing on the realization that I had never, not once been afraid of Asher harming me.

Why was this time different?

Breathing deeply, he ran his nose up my neck, stopping at the base of my throat. I was warring with my mind and with Maya, both of which telling me to do opposite things. Maya trusted Asher and his wolf with every fiber of our being, but the instinct to protect ourselves was growing stronger with each passing second. It was my mind, the part of me bonded to Asher that told me not to fight, to let my mate do as he pleased.

I’d run out of time to make a decision when he pulled back, his face contorting into something terrifying and feral.

of my t-shirt with his claws. The fabric was

neither of which I could fight. My body always had a mind

took hold. The longer I lay frozen beneath him, the more disbelief began to take hold, numbing my nerves until all that was left was the shocking realization that Asher was actually going to draw

punishing, but he’s never made me

inside my head, and I shoved past the block in his head, racing down the bond between us until I was forced to stop. I was slammed back into my own body with enough force to make

Asher wasn’t in there.

could feel from him was this never-ending sense of hunger, a murderous need that consumed ever facet of his being until even his vision was tinted in a sickly shade ofred. There was no human emotion, no trace of recognition as he

body protesting, I needed to

no choice but to fight

but incite anger, but it was the one emotion he seemed to be showing, one I knew could be used against him. Sure enough, the more I thrashed, the more his snarling seemed to build. When he reached for my hair, I

the obvious, ignoring the full extent of that endless hunger l’d felt,

to use magic against him, not without knowing the full extent of what I could do. I didn’t care what Asher planned to do to me, killing my mate was absolutely

maneuver my leg and plant my foot against his chest. I kicked with

readied myself for my next move, or for his retaliation when he froze in place. His eyes glowed in the dark, skewering me where I lay beneath him. The quiet huff of him sniffing the air hit

something growing between my legs, something I was

only was Asher seconds away from killing me, but he was also very much naked. I shouldn’t have found it so surprising considering he’d probably shifted before coming here, but it was hard to notice when pinned to the bed like a wounded doe. Even as I felt the full weight of his cock hit my thigh,

looked away, I would have never seen

body because it reacted instantaneously, tightening my core until an ache began to

Landing a rather forceful punch to his jaw, I swung one leg out and nearly made it onto the floor. Apparently, I’d made the wrong move because

I snarled in warning, but that only

realized what he was about to do. Only a horrifyingly damp pair of panties protected

onto my slick flesh his mouth, tearing the

my

even seem to notice. On the other end of our bond was that feral sort of hunger, only now it was fixated on

rumbling,

that was left was the fall. When his eyes flitted up to my face, burning with their