Page 134 of Psycho Shifters
She led my former kitten and Ascher out of the hall.
Xerxes didn’t bother to look back. Fuck him, he’d been way better as a kitten. Also, a part of me swelled with satisfaction that my stiletto heel was still sticking out of his shoulder.
However, Ascher did look back at me.
From the way the slinky fucker rolled his shoulders and walked with his back straight, he didn’t look younger anymore. He was a completely different man. A confident man.
Not a hothead.
My Ascher had never been real. It had all been a facade.
It took all my willpower, but even paralyzed with pain, I moved my fingers.
I flipped him off with both hands.
He smirked back at me and licked his lips like a total creeper.
With his horns and tattoos and the way he prowled out of the room like a monster, I would bet all my money he was crazier and more dangerous than Cobra.
Stab him with his horn. I couldn’t wait to make the fucker bleed.
The queen and the two traitors left the room and left me alone with my unconscious friends. I wanted to fall to my knees and beg them all to wake up, to be okay. But my paralyzed limbs wouldn’t let me.
When the guards descended, blessedly, one of them knocked me out.
I didn’t want to be conscious anymore.
ASCHER
REGRET
An hour earlier...
I stood against the wall at the party and waited. Cobra had barked at me to go after Jax, then disappeared into the crowd with Sadie.
He didn’t know that Xerxes was already outside, taking care of Jax.
The big man voluntarily going outside was the best thing that had happened for the mission.
The original plan was I would take the three alphas out by drugging them while they danced. Then Xerxes would come in and we would carry them outside and summon the fae queen.
I hadn’t planned on the princess looking drop-dead gorgeous.
Fuck, I raked my hands across the top of my horns and fought to calm the fire that burned inside my gut.
When I first saw Sadie, my mouth gaped open with shock, and I wasn’t the only one. Cobra and Jax had stiffened beside me.
We had all been irritable as fuck on the long horse ride to the celebration. Mostly because Sadie had disappeared with Aran and left without us.
When we discovered that our princess was gone, all three of us lost our shit.
She might be an alpha, but she was still small and delicate and prone to fucking disaster. She needed us to protect her at all times.
The problem was, she kept forgetting that.
When we had arrived at the party, we searched the crowd, desperate to find her.
I had a mission to complete, but that didn’t change how I felt about the princess or the other alphas. If anything, I’d masked my true emotions to play my hotheaded role.