Alpha Asher by Jane

Chapter 208

Chapter 208 

The trip home was filled with silence.

It wasn’t the comfortable kind that faded

into the background and made your

eyelids grow heavy as the purr of the car’s engine droned on and on.

This one was full of tension and unspoken words that were so loud they needn’t be spoken at all.

 

Zeke, Clara, and Mason hitched a ride with Asher and I since Tessa was currently tied up and unconscious in the back of the work van Breyona drove. Giovanni and Tristan had no choice but to sit back there as well considering they were the only windows blacked out from the rising sun.

It would’ve been safer to wait until dark to move, but we didn’t have the time to

waste.

There was no telling if Ember would come back for her twin with more witches, and now that the location of the safe haven was compromised, we needed every spare warrior available to protect the territory.

It did help that Deacon, Dina, and Spence stayed behind, but there was still the risk

of the witches attacking during the day.

Since my nerves were too frayed to sleep, I spent the entire drive home thinking of ways to magically protect the safe haven Asher and I created.

Undoubtedly, Cordelia would be able to help. She could use her protection magic to cast an alarm – like spell, one that would alert us if any witches crossed the boundary, but it would do nothing to give us a heads up

I’d been able to turn a Vampire into a

Werewolf and a Werewolf into a shadow creature, so I couldn’t help but toy with the idea of somehow creating a protective shield over the land. It was a solid plan, but I’d have to be extremely specific on who would be allowed through. 2

By the time we made it to the pack’s boundary lines, I had a stronger idea of what I wanted to do.

that it would take a crap ton of energy, but a shield was exactly what the safe haven needed. Vampires without ill-intentions would be able to pass through and seek shelter,

others transported Tessa into one of the reinforced holding cells, I ran my plan by

had been in the middle of smudging the house,

each room. She’d been hesitant over how

about Tessa, she very reluctantly gave me a bundle of some bitter smelling plant she called Hemlock. There wasn’t a drug or herb on this planet that could take away a witch’s power, but this poisonous root would make it harder for Tessa to have access to it. The only stipulation was that it couldn’t be administered for more than a couple weeks, or you’d run the risk of death. It gave us time,

my way down to the prison cells. The

you turned your head and ignored the row of glass boxes with cots inside, you could almost fool

doing here?”

mean-mugging Tessa through the observation glass, his arms crossed over his chest as he leaned against the wall. The scowl on his face was

one of the metal chairs looking just as distraught as he had hours

the same

said before. What’s it fucking matter? Her twin nearly melted my head off and everyone’s on my ass for

Brandon snapped with a surprising amount

look in his direction,

that was scarily calm.

brother’s stare for a few tension-filled seconds before averting

if she says anything useful.” He muttered,

that would lead to the winding staircase that brought you to the ground

still staring at the spot. Brandon had occupied

is everything alright?” I asked, placing a hand on his arm to stop

jaw and lips softened when he turned to look

get to him before he finds the liquor.” He grunted, tossing me a look that

through Asher’s whiskey collection.

do but fixate on Zeke’s forlorn stare and the witch

on.

cot in her cell, her back to the wall and her

her forehead, peeling where it reached

she said anything?” I

wasn’t until I saw you and Asher together that I started feeling like there was something

to think that the selfless man who dropped everything to help Asher and I wouldn’t get the future he deserved. Even with

you spoken

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