Alpha Asher By Jane Doe

Read Alpha Asher [by Jane Doe] Chapter 21

Little did I know, no one in the pack would be getting restful sleep tonight.

Another one of our own was d**d. M******d in the same exact fashion as Katie.

The first thing I did was alert Alpha Asher and his men.

There would be no explaining this way, no keeping the scrutinizing looks from falling on my shoulders. The coincidences alone were too much.

First, Tyler vanishes with his mate. It was common knowledge that Tyler and I were together. Second, the position of Kanyon’s body was too perfect. It position and the m****r was simply too close to home, literally. The nature of Kanyon’s d***h brought Katie’s into question. There wasn’t a chance in h**l a rogue would m****r Kanyon and position him outside someone’s house. Rogues simply didn’t do things like that.

The second thing I did was wake up everyone in the house. It was bound to happen eventually once Alpha Asher and his men filtered into the backyard.

And here we were, ten minutes later.

Sean sat on the couch, his head in his hands. Kanyon had been a friend of his.

I was in the blissful stage of trauma where you became numb to everything. The scarlet blood staining Kanyon’s body and the earth had little effect on me. The glassy look of h****r in his eyes couldn’t reach me, nor could the petrified look on his face.

Grandma did what she does best, she tended to the rest of us. Even though it was one in the morning, Grandma set to work pulling out some baked goods and handing us each a mug of hot cocoa.

“How-” Sean finally spoke after what felt like hours of silence, “How could a rogue do this?”

“Isn’t it obvious?” I frowned, trying to keep my tone gentle for Sean’s sake. “A rogue wouldn’t do this.”

Grandma’s lips were pursed, something she only did when stress began to eat away at her. Dad had a similar expression on his face, but he was many shades paler than usual.

“I need to take a look at him.” Sean huffed, standing from the couch.

Sean was clearly in the denial phase. I did what I could to keep Sean and Grandma from looking at the body. Dad insisted seeing it for himself, resulting in his pale and pasty complexion.

“No you don’t.” I shook my head, “Seeing him won’t change anything.”

“Listen to your sister.” Dad huffed, his voice deep and rough with sleep. “You’ll be better off not lookin’.”

“What else am I supposed to do?” Sean let out a frustrated growl, “I can’t just sit here while someone- while something is k*****g off our friends.”

“There’s nothin’ you can do at this moment to fix anything, Sean.” Dad mumbled, not meeting our eyes. “Sometime’s you just gotta be angry and leave it alone.”

I had almost forgotton Dad had lost his wife, our mom, just a few weeks ago. I had been so caught up in my own life, I hadn’t paid much attention to his.

“Why was he sitting there like that, Lola?” Sean mumbled dangerously, “Why was he sitting just outside your window?”

“How am I supposed to know that, Sean?” I frowned, “I don’t know any more than you do.”

“Are you sure about that?” Sean grimaced, putting the pieces together. “Tyler magically f**king disappears and people start d***g. Then one of them- my friend’s corpse was sitting outside your window.”

“Sean, you need to calm down.” Dad barked, getting up from his recliner in a huff. “The only one at fault is the d**n thing doing the k*****g.”

“You should’ve never come back.” Sean growled, his eyes darkening.

I flinched, feeling a blow to my stomach. What hurt the most was the fact that I believed him. The pack was in mourning before I had come back, and now they were in mourning again.

“Enough of that!” Dad growled, “Don’t put the blame on your sister.”

Sean stormed out the front door, shooting one last rueful glance at me and Dad.

me into her arms. I hadn’t realized I’d been

murmured, “He doesn’t mean what

shoulder awkwardly, “He’ll come around Lola. Just

isn’t he?” I murmured, wiping the stray tears from my eyes. “Kanyon’s right outside my

my tears away and composed myself in

keeping something from me. It could’ve had

of Grandma’s arms and glanced between

tell us.” Maya grumbled, “If it has anything to do with the murders, they can’t keep it

mouth, determined to finally get the truth. I could see the weariness in their eyes, and for just a moment I felt guilty. That guilt vanished when

my poorly rehearsed demand could leave my lips, a hasty knock sounded on the front

and opened it, letting Alpha Asher and

my Dad and Grandma, finally settling on

informed the three of us, “I’ll be back to ask

Asher would leave me alone with my Grandma and Dad, giving me another opportunity to demand what they know. Unfortunately, two of Asher’s men

One of

from Asher’s pack. He was one of the few people who

someone who typically kept to the background, especially after making it known he didn’t

many times where Tyler wanted to throw Logan and his family out of the pack,

very long night.” I nodded, leaning

on the door and Dad silently went to open it. Mason’s frantic face was the first thing I saw. Dad grumbled something unintelligible and let Mason

heard what happened.” Mason grimaced, “You don’t mind if

me, Dad and Grandma. I

I shook my head, “I could

over soon.” Mason frowned, walking over to where I laid on the

and sat down, placing my legs on

your window?” Mason murmured to me quietly, his fingers tracing

were looking right at me.” I mumbled in the same

Mason

think so.” I

Asher radiated an aura of control and dominance. There was no questioning who was in charge of the

nodded to my

second, his eyes raked over Mason. While other’s probably

traced little patterns along my skin. While the action was harmless, it was quite relaxing. I couldn’t deny I wasn’t getting some smug satisfaction from the look on Alpha Asher’s

you.” Alpha Asher’s voice was hard, his

long night and the unimaginable h****r that came

happened. Without a doubt, the events of tonight would

Asher growled, raising the hair’s on my

My Dad warned, giving a

Breyona in when she knocks.” I called out to Mason and

fantasized about the prospect of being alone with

the window. The numbness was quickly wearing off, and the

thundering, and I let my fingers wander aimlessly over the cool glass of the window. Kanyon’s body was gone

you looked hard enough, you could still see the crimson blood staining the grass, splashed against

happen here.” Alpha Asher’s voice had come from

away from

was quiet for a moment, his eyes

and was dragged over here.” Alpha Asher pointed out, “There was a trail of blood leading through part of

what he was saying, but it didn’t change

was placed here on

was too tired to feel the familiar pangs of excitement at his close proximity. The numbness was gone, and my head was swimming. I knew what Asher was implying, I had thought the

was

the same thing.” I let my eyes b**n into Asher’s. It was clear he was searching my eyes, looking for any