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

has

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

her strongest emotions at the moment. For some reason, that knowledge takes a little of the edge off. I ans I’d rather her be angry 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 crying. God. Those tears of hers nearly killed

now, standing here, her damning words are all that I can

head.

a War and

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

all over.

that she has to leave. Especially without hearing what

I love you?”

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

so sorry, baby. I love

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DRAVEN

of the train I allow one fear one to roll bot and steady from my yrs. Thank God the sky in rear

Hart wrote doen for me and wonder Type of village it will be. Why is he no nues that 110 loom it there? I guess we’ll

notice the is rubbing her chest and taking deep breathe as if shes in some kind of pain. “What’s the

eyes shoot tonwand mine and I notice for the first time that they’re slightly with tears. Nothing” the right. “I hat with I had a chance to say goodbye to

but I pat conddoet

be Inning on a

know. Her lig purse and the gas out the window. He didn’t want me anyway. He said that I disgusted him

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 money

disgust him, Em.” I whisper. He’s just a big fat

the first time since we left. “Well, this is kind of exciting. And it’s nice

grin. “It’sure as

to provide for me to leave. But then Bart showed me that it was actually coming out of his personal safe and I accepted it. Promising to call him onera month. Am I really going to? I don’t know if I will. Because even within the space of few hours, my

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 a new phone if I need one once Emily and I have found a place to

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