Chapter Four
“Asher! Asher, let her go. Don’t make me zap you!”
It wasn’t that Asher couldn’t hear Echo screaming in his ear. It was more that he didn’t care, or couldn’t. Not about Echo. Not about Rhys, whose fingers now gripped the back of Asher’s neck. Not about Mere Marie, who was likely about to do a lot worse than zap him.
Asher’s bear was fully in control, and at the moment Asher’s bear was only interested in crouching down and guarding Kira from the presence of every other living thing on the planet. It was some kind of delayed gratification, maybe. Asher had denied his bear the sight, touch, scent, and taste of his mate for almost fifteen years.
Now, his bear was going to have his fill. No matter that everything around them was chaos. No matter that the petite, deliciously cur
