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.

i

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.

in the air to switch my trajectory and come up next

I sigh in relief. The copper Lng of blood hits my nostrils and I wince as I realize Quinn was the creature in the . It’s

to do. “We need to get him in the house!”

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

it in

as I begin pounding on the door, With

up!” I scream, still pounding on the

don’t want to scream Draven’s name just at the off chance that Leo doesn’t know she’s here. Even though I’m positive he does. But hers is not the face that pops” up at the bottom of the stain. Instead it is some

Open the door

three naked males on the doonte As she

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 of panther is Heary in the house. I spin around my

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it coming

asks. “She was supposed to

hisses. “How

room and slam Emily against the wall. “What are you? I hit. Now that I’m next

over you!”

straight to where my knuckles are wapped around her throat

in my heart and soul that she isn’t in the house. She’s not here? And this bitch

out.

and struggling, trying to get out

go Koda snaps, tearing me away from the bitch. She’s not one of

Koda. “She smells

as he presses Emily behind his back, “Emily, go up to my room and stay

Emily cries, clutching at Roda’s back.

so hard that his body knocks Emily onto her ass.

it’s not him that answer my

Quinn pups out, and my anger for Emily

eyes

says, with a slight

quizzically, but then I realize, I do not have the time to