The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

Chapter Twenty-One

DRAVEN

DREAM SEQUENCE

“I was running. My body felt like it would give out at any moment, but knew if stopped to take a breath, to gather my strength, that monster would catch me. As it was – I couldn’t hear him behind me – but I knew he was there. Both of them were there. It was dangerous in the marshes. Alligators roamed freely. Snakes slithered in the grass. But both were preferable to the demon that stalked me.

“Draven?” His voice floated in an echo, hovering over the mists of the early morning. “You cannot escape me.””

I cut left, into the heavy copse of trees, not thinking about what he was about what he revealed himself to be. I should have though. I should have realized. Creatures like him were comfortable in such settings.

If I could just get to the beach! If I could just get to a more populated area, I would be safe for the time being. But I was afraid I’d been running in circles and soon my body would give out. And that is exactly what seemed to happen.

My legs began to tremble, my bare feet slicing on broken branches and sharpened rocks. I fell… and that was all it took for him to be on

1. me.

“Draven,” he hissed in my ear after dropping onto my back. “I know you are afraid sweetheart, but soon you won’t have to be. A will make you like us, you will see.”

“Never!” I screamed, as he pressed my face deeper into the grass and ripped my clothes from my body.

“Stupid bitch,” he chuckled. “I’ll teach you. You don’t run from me. You belong to me.”

His lips felt like insects on the back of my throat, his weight crushing into me from behind as he ground his hips into my rear and pinned my hands above my head with a heavily clawed hand.

“Stop! Please,” I begged.

“Your mother is gone,” he groaned, his knees splitting my legs apart from behind so that he could press his erection against me. “I own you and if you continue to fight me, you will die just like your mother did.”

“Please!”

It’s

END DREAM SEQUENCE

running. I clutch the ivory bed covers

open and a heavily muscles male stands there panting. “Draven? Are you

I sputter, my eyes

and I gaze down at the other side of

I

is Quinn. It

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Chapter Twenty-One

He’ll be back soon,” Quinn says, stepping into the room, his face is a mask of concern.

dreaming?”

in my hands. My voice comes out

scream ‘No’ and I jumped out of bed. It sounded- He pauses, “- like you were

notice for the first time I am clad

“I’m sorry I woke

actually just about to make some coffee. You want

in acceptance. “Please! And make it strong

a grin and leaves the

and reached inside for something warmer to throw over what I have on. Pulling out a navy blue hoodie, with a large white ‘Seattle’ logo on it, I pull it over my head, smiling when it swallows me whole. It looks like I’m not wearing any

living room is on and tuned into a news station. Does he eyer turn the

coming into the kicthen. “There’s nothing

plugging in the percolator and turning around. He has pulled on a shirt, and I thank the heavens above because this particular man is built like a chiseled statue

in the distance and I jolt. “Is that

catch mine as

black silk

shiver. “I hate

His brow furrows, “What?

shut willing my brain to block out the memory that attempted to climb from the depths of my brain. I just do. I had a bad