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

Tm so glad you’re okay. I wish I had been allowed to deal with the bastard myself.

don’t actually,

certainly took charge of their litle

and eye him

approval,

I ask what

and searching for the remote control

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

seyn, his dark twinkling. So nice

seem fixed on the backdoor, her

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Chapter Sixty

the island it’s well after midnight. One glance up toward the house on the hill and I 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

isn’t a world out there in which wouldn’t recognize

way the m

watching from down here on

good doctor and Marcus and he allowed me to recruit Tadoes for guard duty tomorrow night. She could be arriving by

from the yacht that I realize Koda is sitting at the edge of

get my message? I ask. Referring to the group text I sent to all pack members save for him. His old phone and my old phone were lost at sea with our three–hundred–thousand dollar powerboat. The moment I picked up a new phone I sent out

you bring me a

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

He doesn’t want to talk about it and I dont particularly feel like prying tonight.

at the station.

at the bar,” he

[hiss. “What did Bartlett

chuckles. “He can’t tell Draven “no- any

sure she doesn’t ask to stay. My plan is to make her want to leave. “She has to po,”

“Did you smell anything different in

fact.“Where are you going to sleep tonight? Are you going

he nods. “I’ll take

realize that she’s my mate. She doesn’t even know what a mate is and I need to keep it that way, But

heal faster and be

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 would know if she

that much safer after she

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

chest like

as a gift after I push

experience, at our being apart, would increase tenfold. Or so I’ve