Alpha Asher By Jane Doe

Chapter 231

Chapter 231

It was terrifying how easy it was to use my magic now.

Asingle thought woven with intention, entwined with a thread of energy, and reality itself bent beneath my hands.

Holly and I left the garage, walking through the kitchen and into the living room where everyone had gathered. Breyona was talking animatedly to Mason and Clara, while the two Vampire’s standing close by watched with interest. Dad and Asher had come back inside and were now sitting on the sofa still deep in conversation. 1

Asher’s head snapped up, his eyes locked on my face as Holly, and I entered the room. There was no dark light of suspicion in his eyes, only exhaustion and endless love. He opened his muscular arms and I stepped into them, my breath catching as I waited for what might happen next.

What my mate didn't know was that the girl he held in his arms wasn’t real.

Through one of the many living room windows, Holly and I watched the illusion I crafted unfold. Everything, from the stitching on our clothes to the part of Holly’s hair, was a product of my magic. I'd taken the extra precautions to make the illusion tangible on the off chance someone was to reach out and touch one of us. Nothing would blow our cover like a hand passing through our arm or torso, proving we were made of nothing more than mist and magic.

It took seconds to conjure up two clones of us, to slip through the front door without a single person in the house noticing.

Without Rowena’s cursed amulet around my neck, it was all too easy.

“It’s a little unsettling, isn't it? Seeing yourself from a distance.” Holly murmured in a low voice, even though it wasn’t needed.

Another droplet of magic and any sound we made was undetectable. The Shadows themselves cloaked us outside, obscuring our forms from the window we stood in front of.

I couldn't bring myself to answer her.

ran rampant in my chest

Breyona were talking to me- to the illusion. Their lips moved, but I didn't dare tune into what they

the hardest thing I'd ever done. It made every breath I took sting in my lungs, but I couldn’t-wouldn't lose anyone else. If

go. We're wasting time and I need to make a pit stop.” I ushered Holly away from the

of magic and the engine rumbled to life. With betrayal roaring in my head, an acrid backdrop

she was nervous by the way she tapped out a hasty rhythm on the

that fear had subsided, but at this very moment, I felt absolutely nothing. Blame it on the icy kiss of dark magic, or the fact

asked, her voice soft as it peeled past the layers

up, their windows darkened, and open signs flipped to closed. Most of

to control them, the illusions will slowly unravel. I'd say

came in the form of a kick to

pit stop within ten minutes, swinging into a bay before putting the car in

craned her head to stare out the window, a strange note of suspicion plaguing her voice. Her brows were furrowed when she finally turned

and what my plan was. I wasn’t going to waste the time

in five.” I turned away, closing the driver side

me folded, weaving itself over my body and erasing my form from view. To Holly, it would look like I had vanished in thin air, but

iridescent film of magic only I could see floated in front of my face, encasing my body in a cocoon of

I strolled into the Hospital through the ambulance's bay doors, one step

than a dozen, and while they moved with purpose they lacked that sense of

was a normal night for

of them chatted as they walked, slinging medical phrases I didn’t know the meaning to. More than once I had to move out of the way to avoid running into one, but I doubt they

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