The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

Chapter 24

Chapter Twenty-Four

DRAVEN

The lights in the bar had dimmed to a pulsating purple hue as I watched the entrance, patiently awaitng Domonic to come back inside. It has already been five whole minutes and I am steadily watching the clock on the wall ahead of me.

I hope he’s not fighting out there.

If he was something told me he could handle it. But still, a small, less familiar part of me worried over it still.

Get a grip Draven,

“Hello dear, can I get a cold beer please? Anything dark.”

I smile, tearing my eyes from the clock and nodding at the stranger in front of me. Pouring a clean glass full of a black froth, I push it out to him. He takes it from me with gloved hands going around my own, causing me to jerk back.

“Thank you, he smiles, revealing gleaming white teeth.

My eyes catch on his mustache, black and carefully clipped. His jacket, his shirt, his pants, his gloves – all are black. He wears a beanie on his head also black. And although beanies aren’t unusual in the late evening it bothers me. “You’re welcome. Five bucks even.

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He smiles again, taking a drink and downing the entire thing in one pull. “Here you go,” he says, handing me a twenty. “Keep the change

Draven.”

My temperature shoots up. The stranger winks at me, leaving the glass on the table and making way for the resterooms in the back.

Okay Draven… so the weirdo knows your name. So what? People talk. You’ve already been here a few nights. He could have overheard someone calling out to you or been somewhere nearby when Bart yelled out orders. Him knowing your name does not have to be weird.

But somehwere deep in my sould I knew that it was.

my, thoughts

realized I was still watching the back of the bar and missed him coming back in. I gaze at

“Yes?”

is hard, his eyes unreadable. “We’re

chuckle, “What? No! Can’t you

it. You and I are heading home. This is not a

he turns around and leaves me to

with me? What the

bar I flip Bart off and

as he defly navigates the fog covered streets toward the hill. He doesn’t speak the entire way to his house and when we get there,

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get in? I ask, as

the back door

way he wasn’t looking at me it was

the deal Domonic?” I quip

all the shades around the first floor of his

my foot ungraciously. When he finally turns to look at me, he hands

nodding

I chuckle darkly.

L–shaped sectional and swallow a devastating burn of Columbian excellance. Surprisingly enough, Domonic sits an entire two cushions

What the hell?

eyes

out of cup and

catch on my bare stomach and he edges a bit closer. “Because I asked you about him. I want to know who he

in front of me. “Why do you want to know about my ex?” I tease, crawling

eyes fall heavy and his muscles turned rigid.

can’t help it. What, is he jealous? Of an ex I haven’t seen in three years? Please! “What brought this

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