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

he can envelope me in his arms. Tm so glad you’re okay. I wish I

I don’t actually, but

their

Limbles and eye him

says with approval, his smile widening as he bows.

“Should I ask what they were Echting

states and taking a seat on the sofa and searching for the

back of his head. “You guys are going to get this

twinkling. So nice to meet

notice the hardly paying attention. Her eyes seem fixed on the backdoor, her und stuck at least I think–ep the wood that walked out

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Chapter Sixty

back to 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

only curvier than the blond, but there isn’t a world out there

way the m

watching from down here on

and I come to an express understanding. I gave him the 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

sitting at the edge of

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

Did you bring me

coming to stand behind him, my eyes scanning

answer me, which says enough. He doesn’t want to talk about it and I dont particularly feel like prying tonight. Not after everything that happened back

at the station.

Emily at the bar,” he

“What did Bartlett say? No, I

can’t tell Draven “no- any

to argue, then I realize, what’s the point. He may be right. But my plan is to make sure she doesn’t ask to stay. My plan is to make her want to

I know.” Then, “Did you smell anything different

shake my head no, still confused about that fact.“Where are you going to sleep tonight? Are you going to give

nods. “I’ll take the

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, I’m going to lay with her one last time and try to burn the memory of the way it feels to hold her into the flesh

she’ll heal faster

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 would know if she were sick, or

much safer

it should carry for up to fifty miles. So should I ever want to see her. Tll just fly to Miami, track her

crush into my chest like a knife twisting of the

her to accept the condo as a gift after I push her

at our being apart, would increase tenfold. Or so