Bound by Fate (The Alliance Book 8) by Brenda K. Davies

Author:Brenda K. Davies [Davies, Brenda K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gilmour-Cox Publishing
Published: 2022-05-25T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO

Turning his attention to the phone, he dialed the last number he’d memorized for Nathan. If Nathan didn’t answer, he’d try Logan next.

“Hello?” Nathan greeted on the first ring.

“Hey,” Asher said.

Something clattered, and Asher pictured Nathan knocking something to the ground as he rose abruptly. The noise could have been something else entirely, but that image was what formed in his head.

“Asher,” Nathan breathed. “Where have you been?”

“I can’t reveal that.”

“Why not?”

“I said I wouldn’t.”

There was a pause as Nathan absorbed this. “Are you okay?”

“Yes. I’m here by choice, but I can’t reveal where… yet. Hopefully, I’ll be able to do so soon.”

Asher held Brie’s gaze as she stared at him from across the way. He couldn’t read the expression on her face, but at least she wasn’t glaring at him.

“And how do I know you’re telling the truth when you say you’re okay?” Nathan asked.

“Because I was given a chance to call you, and I’ve been offered the opportunity to leave, but I’m staying. I may have stumbled upon something to help us all, and I’m not going to leave it.”

Is that the only reason he’s staying? Brie wondered and then kicked herself in the ass for thinking it. Who cared why he was staying? Not her, not at all, not even a little bit.

And she was completely lying to herself. She was aware of that, but it didn’t stop her from repeating the lie a couple more times.

She should be pissed at him for causing a problem she’d never seen coming. She’d expected him to somehow mess up their hunt for the stone, get in the way, try to keep it for himself, or attempt an escape.

The possibility the demons might somehow link the two of them together had never occurred to her. But then, she hadn’t expected to end up in jail either. All she could do was hope that one vamp was the only one who saw Asher and most likely her picture too.

Asher didn’t tell Nathan the other reason he wasn’t going to leave was because of Brie. It would only irritate Brie, but it was the truth.

Not only that, but he was beginning to question if the strong pull he felt toward her wasn’t something more than just an intense, physical attraction. He’d seen too many vampire and hunter mates come together over the years not to question the force of his attraction to her.

It didn’t seem like Brie was questioning it. Maybe she’d never been around mated vampires before, or, if she had, it had been so rare she hadn’t started to speculate whether it might be happening between them.

But then, she was so closed off she might have started to suspect what they were to each other and refused to acknowledge it. Or a worse possibility was she wasn’t experiencing the same level of attraction to him as he was to her.

He found that unlikely given what passed between them earlier, but it could be a crushing possibility.

“Is there something we can do to help you?” Nathan asked.

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