The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

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The Pack: Rule Number 1 – No Mates

Chapter Sixty–Six

DOMONIC

Claring at the writing on the wall in the dungeon, I growl. We haven’t removed it because the moment I shift tonight, I will begin my search from right fucking here. Koda, Rainier, and I will bank out from the back passageway and me out in a half cirle in an attempt to catch the scent of the killer. The rest of the pack will scour the treet hanks behind the sheriff station. It is my belief that

river his escape route, as it would be the best way to disguise his

sernt. Water is annoying that WN

I exit out of the back page and into the forest to stare at the trees. How I wish I had spent a little more time at the packhouse this moming. I wanted to hold Draven just a little longer. Wanted to somehins, infuse the feel of her body into my arms. Unfortunately, its much too late for that now.

ing into my pocket, I pull out the emerald ring. Then as quickly as Imable, I dig a two foot hole into the ground with my clans. Placing the ring inside, I make

with myself.

When I finally catch the heidend who has been terrorizing our pack – J will die this up and make Draven my wife

As the sun begins to

to set over the horizon, I dial her number. I just need to hear here before I disappear into the woods for the night. I would like nothing better than to keep Draven with me. So the stress of finding the killer soon is higher than it ever was.

“Hello,” She cool, antwering on the first ring.

ith just the excitement in her voice, my heart aches in my chest as I picture her plump lips twisting into a smile.

“Hey God, I sound terrible. So much for hiding my emotions,

I can feel a tremble of unease skating through the bond and I know she must be feeling the doom in my heart the same way that I am sensing her upset.

I chuckle, closing my eyes to fabricate walls in my head. Building them brick by brick and cementing them together around my mind. “Nothing. I just wish I’d gotten another kits from you before I left.”

And that’s the

the truth, because tomorrow there won’t be one. More than likely, all I will get from her is a punch to the gut.

7 wish you had too,” the whispers. “But I’m glad you called.”

muscles go tight as the sun falls lower, turning the sky a strange syrupy red where it is normally pink. I pour ice over my soul when I speak next by picturing Draven’s body surrounded by a fire, started by an unknown arsonist. I let the image of her dead and fried to a blackened crisp, heat my words as I grow into the phone. I’ll need

sense her startle at my tone. Her voice is shadowed

just want

she says suddenly and I’m

twelve thousand

goes rock

time

the tears that prick my eyelids as I realize, I cannot say it back. I want to, but I’m already changing. My mouth fills with teeth and fangs and my tongue has become long and useless. Then again, maybe its good that I can’t speak, because if I admit something like that to her, she won’t leave tomorrow. It’s hard mough for me to accept

and that’s exactly what I do. My wolf rumbles with elation as I drop down on all fours and my clothes rip from my body. I fuck my phone behind a large tree root and mark the damn thing with a swipe of

Deaven a voice as I step away, I realize I recognize her.

will whines with

timber of heroe

within

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my Haman memories are muddled, but such is not the case this time.

mbtc.

I tip my head back

disappears completelua beckoning howl into the air around doe. Calling all my brothers to their stations

deep drink of the air, I can smell something in the wind. Something familiar and

night five years ago parade through my mind.

crying, Children screaming on the outside of the parkhouse as the human firefighters fail to douse the

is barely there and incredibly delicate on the senses.

pare human, not panther, nor bat. He is

the shadow to join me as we chase this phantom’s footsteps, more

DRAVEN

was speaking to me before I told him that I loved him, has me on edge. I feel like there’s something he’s not telling me. In fact,

could take the yacht nut the

out at the wharf, I

behind as “We were told to keep you here.

to something,” I say

walking up to stand next to where I stare out the window. “I

me. Something happened to him, didn’t it? Something that has made

him as passionate