The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

The Pack: Rule Number 1 – No Mates

Chapter Seventy–Three

DOMINIC

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My chest was heaving. Bartlett was bleeding. Yet still, he continues to lie to me.

Glaring at where he lay on the ground at my feet, Ilias, “This can stop, you know, You only have to tell me where they went.”

A crowd of onlooker had formed around us. Mostly pack members, but a few of them here shop owners who had stayed to work late and heard the commotion from inside their stores. They remained silently, watching. Uheless as I beat Bartlett into the ground. The presence of two of the city’s deputies didn’t seem to matter to amyrne, least of all me. No one was going to stop this, they knew it and I knew it. Su Bartlett got off one or two punches, but I let him have those. They served to push at my anger. Making me wilder, stronger, and taking the edge off the crushing abjus forming in my chest.

“You can kill me if you want Bartlett shouted from the ground, spitting blood out of the side of his mouth as he did. “Because I can’t tell you what I don’t know

I chuckle and kick him swiftly in the ribs. “As you wish

“Dom,” Koda lets out rooly. He meets my gaze, stepping forward with a hand raised. “He’s had enough. We should go to the main station and see what we can find

I nod, stepping back, and away from my one trusted friend on the ground. “We’ll talk about this later. Then I kneel, bringing my mouth as close as possible to him 10 that what I say is not overheard by the humans spectating. “You better stay home for a week. II have someone else take over the bar. There are too many witnesses tonight.” Then I growl, “And I swear to God, if something happens to her and I find out you’ve been lying to me…”

I let that hang as I followed Koda back into the bar to retrieve my shirt and wash my hand. “Let’s go,” I tell him as the pair of un ran back nutside and climb into his SUV Im assuming you’re off duty.”

Be nods, screeching out of the parking lot and leaving a cloud of dust and asphalt injur wake. “We need to find out what train they rode out on and then check every city they might have stopped in.”

I chuckle, studying him as his deftly maneuvers through the shadowed streets of Port Orchard. So devoted. Any particular reason why?”

He clenches his teeth, his jaw going tight. “No.”

“And now you’re lying.”

“I am,” he admits.

Then it occurs to me. He stood between Emily and me when I attacked her at the padhouse. When he did, he looked angry enough to kill me. He’s been more you lately. Koda has never been much of talker and until just recently, has been the very best at following unders. Accordingly to him, he met Emily long before the rest of us did. He even allowed her to take his room.

“Something tells me I’m not the only one with chest pains,” I mumble.

He glares out at the night as we pull imo the train station. “You’re not.”

She’s his mate. Emily, is his me

as I roll down the window and Draven’s heavenly scent dangles just above the senses. “Gad. She was here.” I growl. “Bartlett knows where they went. I know

the many vacant spaces of the parking lot. “Probably, but whatever you did to Braten in keeping him

I stap. “This station closes at Five.

Absolutely,” he is,

his SUV and walk confidently toward the office,

shakes his head, “T

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faint, just a tinge is there. I’m an Alpha and an Alpha pinsesses Frunget senses then

it. A woll. And it’s not you

teres, “The

followed from the dungeons, but not exactly the same.” I jerk my

more than one,” Koda mumbles

a wolf started the fee. He would have shifted, like we had

says, before pulling a mini crowbar out of his back

DRAVEN

the Red Wolf Lodge. A wolf was howling somewhere in

we stay at his house, but really didn’t want to. So I declined, promising to see him in the morning so that he could take us further into town and we could

why I didn’t decide to have him take us back to Vancouver

Really? What the hell

to go and given the name of the town, I was extremely confused. I have to find out what it is about this place that keeps him

Domanic

chest. Tears fill my eyes and after making sure that Emily is fast asleep in the bed next to me, I choose to let them fill.

to

didn’t want me. So I will do my very best to move on without him. And where I come from sometimes it is easier to do by hopping into

I sold myself. “Are you

whore porn just to get revenge? The

yes, I

one of the card boys off the table and slipping my sweatpants on, I step outside to inhale the crisp mountain alt. It’s beautiful out here. I can hear mer my left and birds on

a voice sounds to my left.

startle, jumping back toward the motel room door and placing my hand on the Indò, “H–HL”

before me is immaculately dressed. His graying hair is clipped short and hayes are a shadowed gray. “Are you alone

card key and unlocking the door.

smoke slowly. “I

come all the way up here from the street to backer

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