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.”

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

her startle at my tone. Her voice is shadowed with unease,

of my legs start expanding “I just

says suddenly and

twelve thousand degrees and

rock hard.

the time

useless. Then again, maybe its good that I can’t speak, because if I admit something like that to her, she won’t leave

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

away, I realize I recognize

will whines with

of heroe

within

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memories are muddled, but such is not the case this time. Now, without a doubt I’m sure, Draven is my one true

mbtc.

tip my head back toward the sky

the air around doe. Calling all my brothers to their stations as the moon

of the air, I can smell something in the wind.

to life as images from that night five years ago

smell of burning evergreens, of black soot on my tongue, the sounds of women wing and crying, Children screaming on the outside of the parkhouse as the human firefighters fail to douse

the freshly turned earth and I sent him. The killer. Like a shadow on a cloudy day, it is barely there and incredibly delicate on the senses. 1 touch it with my

nor pare human, not panther, nor bat. He is a

with urgency as Koda and Rainier step out of the shadow to join me as

DRAVEN

Domonic 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, I’m almost positive there is.

the yacht nut the middle of the

wharf, I feel her before I hear her.

behind as “We were told to keep

say “I can feel it.”

stand next to where I stare out the window. “I believe you and trust me when say, his fear

might share what she knows with me. Something happened to him, didn’t it? Something

She giggles. Tve never seen him as