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Chapter 23: Asher Time
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Killing them would bring satisfaction. But torture? That would be far more rewarding.“Alpha?” A guard stepped forward, his voice uncertain. “Do you need something?”Asher didn’t stop. He didn’t even look at him. “Open the cells.”The guard hesitated. “Alpha, are you sure? The prisoners—”“I didn’t ask for your opinion. Open the damn cells.”The guard swallowed hard but nodded. He hurried ahead, unlocking the heavy iron doors. The moment they creaked open, the stench of sweat and blood filled Asher’s lungs. It only fueled his rage.Inside, Connor and his men sat slumped against the cold walls, wrists bound, faces bruised and swollen from earlier beatings. Connor looked up, his split lip curling into a smirk.“Well, well. The mighty Alpha finally decided to visit.” His voice was hoarse, but laced with arrogance. “Did your little mate cry to you?”Asher moved so fast, Connor didn’t even have time to flinch. His hand wrapped around the bastard’s throat, lifting him effortlessly.“You thi
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The chamber was one of the many places Asher used for interrogations. It was specifically designed to handle rogues who trespassed on his territory. The room had several hidden vents in the corners, which, when activated, released silver gas. The toxic fumes made any wolf inside weaker, forcing them to endure excruciating pain. Breathing it in felt like pure agony, stripping away their strength little by little. Moving onto the next prisoner, Emerson, Asher noticed he was already unconscious. That didn’t surprise him. Over time, he had observed that Emerson was far weaker than Harris. Without hesitation, he injected him with the sedative, stepping back as the drug took effect. "Put them in the chamber," he commanded, his voice sharp and unwavering. Only two remained—Nathan and Connor. These two were the ones Asher looked forward to dealing with the most. However, their suffering needed to be drawn out. They wouldn’t get the easy way out—not yet. Sticking each of them with the sy
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"You talk in your sleep."Elena’s eyes snapped open.Her breath caught.For a moment, she was somewhere else.Somewhere dark.Somewhere cold.But then—Warmth.The steady rise and fall of a chest beneath her palm.A strong, steady heartbeat.The scent of pine and smoke.And the low, teasing voice that had just spoken.Asher.Her entire body went rigid.Slowly—too slowly—she lifted her head.Asher’s golden eyes were already on her, filled with something dangerously amused.His lips curled at the edges. "Morning, princess."Elena’s stomach flipped.Her pulse roared.She jerked back, her breath uneven as she processed where she was.Asher’s bed.Asher’s arms.And the lingering warmth of his body wrapped around her.Her heart pounded as memories of the night before flooded back.The way he held her.The way she let him.The way, for the first time in six years, she had fallen asleep without fear.Her throat tightened.Asher stretched lazily beside her, his arm still slung across her waist
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Words Elena Hasn't Heard in Years The silence between them stretched. Elena shifted awkwardly. Her pulse was still racing. Asher exhaled through his nose, watching her. Then, his head tilted slightly. "Has anyone ever told you you’re beautiful?" Elena’s breath stopped. Her heart stuttered. The room blurred. A memory—soft, distant, aching. Her mother’s voice. "My beautiful girl." But that had been six years ago. No one had said it since. No one had even looked at her that way. And yet, Asher had said it so easily. Like it wasn’t foreign. Like it wasn’t a lie. Like it wasn’t a game. Her fingers curled into her palms. "Don’t say things you don’t mean." Asher frowned. "Why would I lie?" She didn’t know. She only knew that nothing good ever followed words like that. Because beauty meant attention. And attention meant pain. Asher studied her carefully. His voice softened. "Come with me today." Elena blinked. "What?" "To my pack work
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The familiar scratch of pencil against paper was soothing. Line by line, she built her mother’s face—the curve of her cheek, the softness of her smile, the warmth in her eyes. For a moment, everything faded. The pain. The bruises. The doubts. All that remained was the quiet rhythm of shading and detail. Then— A scent. Pine and smoke. A presence. Warm and steady. A voice. "You didn’t answer the door." Elena jumped, nearly smudging the drawing as Asher’s voice broke through the silence. Her heart pounded. She turned to find him leaning against the doorframe, arms crossed, watching her with an unreadable expression. His golden eyes flickered to the journal in her lap. "You draw?" Elena hesitated. She wasn’t used to people seeing this part of her. But Asher wasn’t just people. She nodded. He pushed off the doorframe, stepping closer. "Can I see?" Her throat tightened, but after a long pause, she tilted the journal slightly toward him. His
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"You’re frowning," Asher’s deep voice broke through the silence.Elena startled slightly, looking up from the book in her hands.He wasn’t even looking at her.He was still at his desk, flipping through documents, one hand holding a pen, the other resting on the desk. Yet somehow, he’d still noticed."What?" she asked, feigning confusion.Asher finally glanced up. His sharp gaze settled on her with unnerving accuracy."You’re frowning," he repeated, tilting his head slightly. "Either you don’t like the book, or something else is on your mind."Elena swallowed, gripping Animal Farm tighter in her lap.It wasn’t the book. She loved this book.It was her thoughts.The ones that had been creeping in the moment she stepped into his office.The moment she realized how perfectly he fit in this world—his world.And how she… didn’t.Elena forced a small smile. "I’m fine."Asher didn’t look convinced.His eyes lingered on her for a moment longer, like he was debating whether to push.Then, fina
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"You’re upset about a book?" Elena blinked, startled out of her thoughts. Asher’s voice held an edge of amusement, his lips curving into the faintest smirk as he leaned back in his chair. She hesitated, gripping Animal Farm tighter in her lap. "It’s… not just a book," she murmured. Asher raised a brow, waiting. Elena hesitated again. But something about his quiet patience made it easier to speak. "Boxer," she said finally. "He worked himself to death, believing in something that never truly cared about him." A flicker of something unreadable crossed Asher’s face. "And that upsets you?" Elena looked down at the worn pages, tracing a fingertip over the words. "He was good," she said softly. "And it didn’t matter." The room was quiet for a moment. Then Asher let out a low hum, shifting slightly in his chair. "Life isn’t always fair," he admitted. "But not everyone ends up like Boxer." Elena glanced up, surprised. His gaze was steady. "Some fight back." Her bre
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Elena's voice was hesitant. “You were… avoiding me?” Asher exhaled slowly, running a hand through his dark hair. “Not avoiding,” he corrected. “Giving you space.” Elena frowned. “Why?” His jaw tightened for a moment before he sighed, eyes locking onto hers. “Because my wolf—Leo—was restless. He wanted you close. Needed you close.” Her breath hitched. “But I didn’t want to overwhelm you,” Asher continued, his voice quieter now. “I thought… after everything, you might need time to adjust.” Elena’s mind reeled. He had stayed away—not because he didn’t want her—but because he cared enough to give her space? “The frustration you saw,” Asher went on, “it wasn’t anger. It was… pain.” His fingers curled slightly at his sides. “Pain of being too far from you.” A warmth bloomed in Elena’s chest, unfamiliar and terrifying all at once. She had spent years believing she was unwanted, a burden no one cared to carry. Elena swallowed hard, forcing herself to meet his gaze. “You—”
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Elena barely had time to exhale before another presence entered the clearing—gentle footsteps crunching the blood-speckled gravel.“Sweetheart?”The voice was soft, but it stilled Asher instantly.His head turned before his body did. “Mom?”Margot stood at the edge of the courtyard, hands clasped nervously in front of her, eyes shimmering with barely-contained tears. Her gray-streaked hair was pinned back hastily, and she looked like she’d run here in a rush—still wearing an apron dusted with flour.“Asher…” Her voice broke.He didn’t speak. He just went to her.His steps were slow at first, hesitant, but with each stride they grew faster—until he crashed into her arms and buried his face against her shoulder like he was five again and had just skinned his knee. Margot clutched him tightly, murmuring softly in a language only mothers knew.Elena stepped back, heart clenched.It was a sight no one else could offer him: a mother holding her son, grounding him not with duty or titles but
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Asher’s breathing had steadied against her chest, but the tension clinging to his body told Elena his storm hadn’t fully passed. She could feel it in the way his arms held her like a lifeline—tight, desperate, almost reverent.She shifted slightly to cradle his jaw, lifting his face until their eyes met.“You’re my mate,” she whispered.The words weren’t said to soothe.They were truth.Powerful. Undeniable.“I know what that means,” she continued, fingers brushing the tears from his cheeks. “It means you’ll fight for me. Kill for me if you have to. You didn’t attack out of rage alone, Asher. You reacted because someone laid hands on your bonded mate. You were protecting me.”His eyes shimmered with grief and awe.“And while what happened tonight was violent… it wasn’t senseless,” she added. “It wasn’t cruelty. It was instinct. Love, twisted in the face of danger.”“But love shouldn’t look like *that,*” he rasped. “Elena… there was blood on my hands. And for a second—I didn’t even car
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The silence held like a fragile glass dome—ready to crack with the next breath.Elena slowly stood from the stone bench, her hand still laced with Asher’s. The blood had dried on his knuckles, a dark contrast to her soft, steady fingers. Around them, the night air hummed with unspoken tension. Somewhere beyond the walls, the pack waited. Watched. Whispered.She lifted her chin.And walked forward.“Asher,” she said quietly, her voice a thread of steel wrapped in silk, “stay here. Breathe.”He nodded, reluctant but obedient, his eyes never leaving her.She turned toward the courtyard’s archway where the first lines of pack members had begun to gather—hesitant, uncertain, wide-eyed. Grayson stood among them, stiff and unreadable. Lena hovered just behind him, arms crossed but eyes flickering with something—something like waiting.Elena stepped into view.“Enough,” she said.The word sliced through the air.Dozens of heads turned toward her. Murmurs died. Shoulders squared.Her tone wasn
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The Shattering Calm: “I told you not to touch her.”Asher’s voice was low, guttural—nearly inhuman. His body was a blur of motion.“No—!”Nathan’s scream barely left his lips before a sickening crack echoed through the air.Then silence.The kind that wraps around the lungs and crushes.The kind that halts time.Gasps broke out in waves. A few stumbled back. Others covered their mouths. A baby somewhere wailed. But no one moved.Nathan’s body hit the stone floor with a finality that silenced even the torches.He wasn’t breathing.Not twitching.Not alive.Elena didn’t scream. She couldn’t.Her breath had left her the moment Nathan’s hand had clamped around her wrist.Now, standing there, the imprint of his fingers still burning her skin, she stared—at the lifeless heap that had once been a boy she grew up with.And then at Asher.His chest heaved, but his face—gods.His eyes were pitch black, a storm of rage and instinct, his jaw clenched so tight she swore his teeth would shatter. B
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…She’d chosen mercy.And it hadn’t broken her.It had saved her.Elena turned back just as the guards began pulling Connor away, metal cuffs biting into his wrists.“Wait.”Her voice, though quiet, cut through the air like a blade.The guards froze.Connor didn’t lift his head.Asher’s brow furrowed. “Elena?”She stepped forward, her spine straight, her shoulders high. “Don’t lock him back in the dark.”“Elena,” Asher growled, stepping closer, his arm sliding protectively in front of her. “He doesn’t get a choice. He *doesn’t* get comfort.”“He’s not asking for comfort,” she replied. “He didn’t ask for anything.”“He’s a traitor,” Asher snapped. “A criminal. And *you*—you’re the one he nearly destroyed.”“I know,” she whispered.The air between them thickened.Elena turned, meeting the eyes of the guards. “Set him in a monitored cell. One with light. Give him a blanket. Let Vivian sit with him if she chooses.”“You don’t understand what you’re asking,” Asher said, voice low, taut with
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…And this time, she was free.The sound of another cell door creaking open shattered the silence.Gasps echoed through the hallway.Elena turned just in time to see guards scrambling down the corridor. One of them barked into a comm-link. “Breach in Cell Block B!”Asher’s head snapped up. “What the hell—?”They rushed toward the second chamber.A small crowd had already gathered. Grayson stood ahead of them, jaw clenched, eyes locked on something—or someone—inside.Elena pushed through just behind Asher.And froze.Vivian was on her knees, clinging to the bloodstained shirt of the man slumped against the wall.Connor.Her mate.Unchained.His arms hung limp, hands cut and bruised, but the metal cuffs that should’ve bound him lay discarded on the floor.“What—” Asher’s voice boomed. “What is this?!”None of the guards answered.They looked afraid.Ashen.One stammered, “She... she forced the door. Said it was her right.”“You let her unchain him?” Asher snapped.“We didn’t touch the cu
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The Choice of Mercy: “I can hear your heart,” Asher murmured, voice thick with morning rasp. “It’s racing.”Elena’s lips curved, her cheek nestled against his bare chest. “Because you’re the one holding me.”His hand traced lazy circles along her spine. “Do you feel safe?”“With you?” She lifted her head, eyes glowing in the morning light. “I feel like nothing in this world can touch me.”Asher leaned forward, brushing his lips along her temple. “That’s all I ever wanted to give you.”Elena tilted her face up, caught in the honey warmth of his hazel eyes. “You’ve given me more than safety, Asher. You’ve given me something I never thought I’d have again.”He smiled softly. “And what’s that?”“Wholeness.”For a few blissful moments, silence cradled them—comforting and weightless. Outside the windows, dawn slipped through the trees like golden silk, painting their bed in soft warmth. Elena breathed it in, the scent of Asher’s skin, the steady rhythm of his breathing, the feeling of bein
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Elena let herself sink into the moment, feeling the soothing weight of Asher’s arms around her. But soon, a mischievous spark lit in her chest, refusing to let the peace stay too serious.“Sit over there,” Elena said suddenly, nudging Asher’s chest with a grin.He blinked, confused but amused. “Bossy,” he teased, but obediently shifted across the bed, sitting up against the pillows.Elena scrambled off the bed and found a battered old sketchbook and a pencil from her nightstand drawer. “Don’t move,” she said with exaggerated sternness, tossing a wink over her shoulder.“Am I about to be immortalized?” Asher smirked, lounging dramatically as if he were about to pose for a royal painting.Elena giggled. “Yes, but if you keep moving like that, it’s going to be a disaster.”He puffed out his chest, then instantly ruined the serious pose by grinning mischievously. “Paint me like one of your French wolves, my Queen.”She burst into laughter, tossing a handful of popcorn from the bowl on the
