The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

Chapter Seventy

DOMONIC

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I stood there a long time after Paul left. My mind dancing in circles. The new facing pain punching into my chest.

I can hear Margo snoring in my room all the way from the front yard and I decide guest bedroom as soon as possible. I don’t give a firck what deal I made with her. 1 Put only for show, I need whomever’s watching to think that shes my mate. But

My dick stands for only one woman. And she post left with Paul.

The very same Paul I will be dealing with later.

wildement, I

Stomping behind the condo I take off my clothes and shift. Leaping over the back win and packhouse. To the place where my mother died. The ruins or still there. Crumbling plm of rubble and stone. We own the never build there again, What used to be a community of Red Wolf Shifters and their families, is now a picted genet It is the only place I ever got to speak to my mother. The only place I ever allow myself to grieve. And with Dravem pre, pid

Why couldn’t have waited fast a day or two? I just want to hold her one last time. Just one

But reath, I know better. If I had done that, I never would’ve been able to let her g

Dravens cold words tumble through my head as I run and I push harder. Make your mother proud

God, that cut like a knife. A slash straight through my heart. What would my mother have said about what I’m doing! But I know

• be happy. She might even be looking down on the right now and yelling from the Hemens.

I know it was one of the lionesses who must have said something and I’m somewhat relieved. Even if Draven really does know that knows 1 have good reason to be. At least I hope she does.

Then again, she did say she would never forgive me.

I come up on the ruins and do a quick sweep of the area. Sniffing for any foreign scents, but the grounds are untouched. Despite the years and countless rainstorms since that night, I can still smell the rancid aroma of charred Bish. Or maybe, it is just a memory that pla

anymore.

send a painful howl into the sky as I gome to halt where the front porch used to be

it has

I lower the walls around my heart just barely, hoping to feel some sense of Draven through the bond What

than be hurt. But I know, behind all that, there’s pain. I felt it when she slammed the door on us. When she was standing in front of me in my living

here, her damning words are all that I can hear in my

head.

a War and a

prepare for the killer with the trap I’m setting and hope to gain

all over.

to leave.

I love

nearly impossible to block and again I howl. The evergreen trees around me loom

so sorry, baby. I love

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Chapter Seventy

DRAVEN

at Boat the hand from the window of the train I allow one fear one to roll bot and steady from my yrs. Thank God the sky in rear today The dog seems to have vanished withi atram. But still, the beauty of

of village it will be. Why is he no nues that 110 loom it there? I guess we’ll see. At

Imily who sits on the seat eat to me, I notice the is rubbing her chest and taking deep breathe as if shes in some kind of pain.

and I notice for the first time that they’re slightly with tears. Nothing” the right. “I hat with

I’m sorry about that, but I pat conddoet a chance of him tailing the instation w

to be Inning on a plane.”

gas out the window. He didn’t want me anyway. He said that I disgusted him anyway. It’s

disgusted with her. I know itt And I’m willing to be the entire pason Koda beat up Quinn that day was because Quinn had developed a little bit of a crush on Emily. I’d bet

I whisper. He’s just a big fat

since we left. “Well, this is kind of exciting. And it’s nice to have a

“It’sure as fuck

Promising to call him onera month. Am I really

my cell phone out of my pocket and left it under the bar. This way, none of them can contact me. The phone numbers I need, I have plugged into my brain. I will get myself

of the town again?” Emily