Asher
This can't be happening. "Alison, you can go back to sleep. I will tell you everything when I come back." We all know she insisted on following me, right? I wasn't going to risk having her get angry at me, so I urged her to get dressed quickly. I could have used the urging myself.
She finished getting ready before me. "What is going on, Asher? I can feel your worry through the mate bond." Worry was an understatement. I was so flustered I could barely put on my clothes. Alison had to help me get ready or I would have kept fumbling and stumbling for a while. Everything was going so quickly that I didn't have time to feel embarrassed about falling on my butt while trying to put on pants.
"That was Chris on the phone." I heard her gasp. Chris calling this late at night was not a good
