The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

The Pack: Rule Number 1- No Mates

Chapter Sixty

Ja Emily and I come down the stairs the unmistakable sound of two people arguing the up the ball. I can hear multiple voices shouting profanities that bonne off the glass walls to rest between my ears, triggering a sense of urgency in me that ignites something i to maternal instinct in my blood.

The

diting? 1 ask, glancing hark at Emily before running down the renting steps to come to a screeching halt inside the living room

Quinn on his back and Roda on top of him slamming his Est

Quinn’s face. Bart, Grant, and Lief are standing back and watching like

things idions. Why aren’t they stopping this? Fury age inside of me at the sight. This is not night. This has to stop

The peto of fear that falls from Emily’s lips is what does it for me.

I shout so loudly the sound rings through my ears. “Stop

that NOW!

To my surprise

• of them Eierses. Even Koda whose rig is in d swing–stops to stumble back and away from Quinn on the ground

“Base racks into a grande ashes toward me, his arms open for a lug

I hold my hand out, stopping him mid–stri

pping over broken pieces of the coffee table, I make my way toward

at the center of this cus

Cueto tell me what the fuck is going on here? Is “Since when are you both sole?

Koda is seething, but he says nothing as he exits the room, storming out the back doer and into the storm

“Where the hell is he going?” 1 scap.

Quinn, his lips bloody and his face all as my own, gins at me from the ground. “Just a little brotherly love, my queen

“Senously?” I hiss. “You better get up to your room and stay there so that you don’t have to explain yourself yes again,” I say, throwing my head back in a gesture toward Emily

“Right,” he says softly before lifting himself effortlessly off the floor and onto the

turn around so that he can envelope me in his arms. Tm so glad you’re okay. I wish I had been allowed to deal with the bastard myself. But, you know how it in.‘

actually,

their litle boxing

and eye him warily.

says with approval, his smile

over the room. “Should I ask what they were Echting about or do

and taking a seat on the sofa and searching for the remote control for

“You guys are going to get this mess up first and Emily and I are going to set the table and serve

So nice

hardly paying attention. Her eyes seem fixed on the backdoor, her und stuck at least I

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Chapter Sixty

know Draven is still awake. My bedroom light is on and two feminine shadows play over the shades. I smile to myself as I realize I know tactly which one is Draven

than the blond, but there isn’t a world out there in which wouldn’t recognize the sexy

way the m

from down

information I had on the good doctor and Marcus and he allowed me to recruit Tadoes for guard duty tomorrow night. She could be arriving by boat tomorrow afternoon and would remain on the island to watch over the girls while the rest of us went back to Port Orchard

the edge of the wharf,

phone and my old phone were lost at sea with our three–hundred–thousand dollar powerboat. The moment I picked up

you

I say, tossing the device to him over my shoulder as I tie up the boat. “I heard you got into with Quinn,” I remark, coming to stand behind him, my eyes scanning the open water. The waves are calm. Not even a wisp of fog remains. Strange,

want to talk about it and I dont particularly feel like

at the station.

hire Emily at the bar,” he says softly, taking another

“What did Bartlett say? No, I hope.”

chuckles. “He can’t tell Draven “no- any more than you can.”

my plan is to make sure she doesn’t ask to stay. My

“Did you smell anything different in

are you going

“I’ll take the couch.”

toward the house slowly, my mind struggling with what I’m going to have to do to get Deaven to leave. As far as I know, she doesn’t realize that she’s my mate. She doesn’t even know what a mate is and I need to keep it that way, But tonight,

mark her, she’ll heal

thought as I enter the dark space of the living room. Marking her would do a number of things for her as well as for me. It would bond us. Essentially marrying us in the eyes of all shifters. Any wolf that encountered her after, would know she belonged to an Alpha. It would also alter her chemical make–up. Making her human body stronger, faster… more dazzling. If that last part is geen possible. She’s pretty fucking incredible already. My mark would also let me know the moment she was in danger. It would grant me a sort of sixth sense for what she was feeling. I

keep her that much safer after she

Hace for her to live. Besides, the carries my scent and in theory, it should carry for up to

depressing enough to crush into my chest like a knife twisting of the inside of

will be getting her to accept the condo as a gift after I push her

that I would experience, at our being apart,