The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

Chapter Fifty–Four

DRAVEN

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Oh my God.

‘Driven?‘ I hear Emily shout down the stain. What’s going on?

I open my mouth and get ready to scream for her to lock herself in when a muddy hand clamps meer my mouth and something hand and wet pushes against my back.

1 begin to strazzle, a pair of naked rock solid arms come around me from the back and Leo’s deep, deadly voice sounds in my car.

“Uh–uh–uh,” he says. “Do not do it. If you do, I un upstairs and finish that bitch of Tell her you’re fine. Tell her to stay up thereke heat of his dagusting breath wafting over the skin of my neck.

I shake my head no and he squeezes me so tight I feel like my ribs are about to crack

Draven Emily’s voice again.

Leo chackles, “No

Leo chackles, “Now, you have one of two choices. You can come with me willingly? del can knock you out, kill her, then carry you out to my boat. What’s it going to

I nod, I don’t really have a choice. Im just going to wait until we’re far enough away from the house then, I stream for Quinn. I know there’s nothing else that i can do. I have to do as he says. I have no doubt he’ll do exactly as promised if I don. He lifts his hand.

Tm trie 1 shout, wineing at the shakiness of my voice. Tim coming back up?” I yell

moans his approval, his tongue gliding over the side of my throat and he places he hand back over my mouth. I have been waiting so long to have you.”

He relees me and I think he’s going to tum me around, but that’s not what happens Instead, I feel his hands go up under my hair and slid, over my neck. Then there’s a sharp pain that feels like he just stuck his nail inside of my jugular, and that’s it. I crumple into a sea of blackness.

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DOMONIC

We are nearly on top of the creature in the trees when it suddenly drops from the sky and lands at our feet shaking the ground with a force that should have told me it was dead weight. I pounce without looking at first, thinking for sure that it’s Lee, but I come up short when I hear Koda shout behind me.

spin in the air to switch my trajectory and come

placing a finger over his throat. I search for a pulse. It’s weak, but it’s there and I sigh in relief. The copper Lng of blood hits my nostrils and I wince as I realize Quinn was the creature

moment I don’t know what to do. “We need to get him

two of us lift him, scanning the trees around us the entire time. When we reach the front porch we

it in

door, With electricity out, the only

scream, still pounding

positive he does. But hers is not the face that pops” up at the bottom of the stain. Instead it is some random girl with pale

Open the door Rodi shouts.

Baring wide as she takes in the three naked males on the doonte As she opens the door she cries out,

stumble inside and drop Quinn on the couch just as he starts to regain conscious. It is then that I notice the backdoor is ajar and the smell

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was supposed to be on

Koda hisses. “How the

I rip across the room and slam Emily against the wall. “What are you? I

over you!”

so straight to where my knuckles are wapped around her throat T I don’t know what you ne

I shout, knowing in my heart and soul that she isn’t in the house.

out.

and she screams bloody murder, clamoring and struggling, trying to get out

go Koda snaps, tearing me away from the

Koda. “She

body trembling with anger as he presses Emily behind his back, “Emily, go

Emily cries, clutching at Roda’s

starling and shoving Koda so hard that his body knocks Emily onto her ass.

But it’s not

Quinn pups out, and my anger for Emily

I hiss, my eyes

Koda says, with a slight pol

realize, I do not have the time to be standing around