The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

The Pack: Rule Number 1 – No Mates

Chapter Seventy–Seven

DRAVEN

“Oh my God! I can sell anything” I shout, rolling over in bed as Adam steps into subwood floor vibrates between my ears at maximum decibel What the fork? Why are

“You can smell everything? Adam ingwires with a frown. As he approaches gwencomes my senses. Domonier Do you! The fiber smells too much like the

if 1 on pregnant, then at least one of them deserves to krone

room. The sound of his expensive talen a shore solo!

in they duly clip the

weve of nostalgia. The memory of waking up in Domonic’s bed suddenly

I didn’t have so many questions I would say fuck the sea and tons Him

“What i going on, Dezien?” asks Adam, taking a whiff of the air around me while taking a seat next to the bed. His nose scrunches up and I know right away he can probably smell the vomit on me some. After all, I’d been sick only a few moments before. “Emily said there was an emergency. Are you feeling unwel

“You smell just be him,” Iacone, my y suddenly burning with tears. The haunt of Dom nie’s arma is still beach in my mind. “Why did I never notice it before?”

His eyes wide

Ihis. You smell like your son.”

How would you know that? Unless” He finches, falling back against the seat. “you’re pregnant.”

I grimace Fuck, I know it

Surppsingly enough, his normally somber face lights with joy and the deep dimpled in he gives me is a definitely Domonic smile Yes Yes you are. And the fact phat you can smell as well as you can, tells me it’s a boy.” He chuckles. A grandson. Im going to have a grandson”

I’m pregnant with a wolf cub? In my uterus? Crazy as it might sound, the thou doesn’t upset me, I glance down at my flat stomach and sigh, my hand closing over it protectively. This is nuts.”

He laughs jovially. “No dear. A wolf shifter doesn’t usually have their first shift until after puberty. So rest assured, what you are carrying at this moment is human int form. Then his smile falters and be clears his throat. “If you are pregnant, which I’m ninety–nine percent certain, you are- does that mean, you ll be heading back?”

I sneer at him, jolting spright. “Hell no. Letting out a slow, trembling breath, I cross my arms over myself in an attempt to hold myself together against the sudden aching of my heart. I do miss Dumonic and I will tell him about the baby. But – not yet.”

Henoch, clapping his hands together happily. “Good”

I quirk an eyebrow. “Not what I was expecting you to say.”

seen my son in five years. He says he hates me. He thinks I weak. But I still love him, and I want him to have his family, I only wish

happen?” I ask, a strange sense

He frowns, his eyes settling somewhere behind me. “Gabriel has been a bit more trouble than I would have liked.”

“Gabriel? Really?”

think I haven’t noticed all the attention he’s been showering you

handsome and he’s nice to

marked,” Adam scolds

of it specially not now that I might be pregnant.” Chewing on my lip, I turn toward the window and the fast approaching dark of the mountain sky. “Maybe its finally time

only member of the Elder Council that still speaks to his son. Perhaps if you tell Bartlett

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it’s rally time to show his face.”

head. “I doubt it.” Then, turning away from the window I admit, “And I’m

opportunity to truly realize what he’s missing out on. You alone may be the key to his homecoming” With a sigh, he sits forward and I intake another greedy inhale of his pine cinn goodness. “Domorie süd kanat forgiven me for Irving Port Orchard after the fire. But one day he’ll have to realize – it was just too painful

remark, pahing my own longing toward the back of my

Adam says softh, his eyes dining. You remind me of her in

to me like she was

I’m touched that he and the rest of the boys are determined to find the killer. But, at the same time, I know his mother wouldn’t him living in the shadow of her death” He frowns. “She would want him with his mate. Leading her

His sent is settling my stomach! What the ? Come and sit on the bed,” I say,

I hear the scrape of the chair legs on the oalwood

again and smiling against the soothing sensations that come with his aroma. “Oh

to be soothed by her mate’s presence of for no other reason than that, you

My

about his baby–if there a one–but not today. “I don’t want to,” I say. 72 least not yet. It won’t change anything that hes alady done

he replies. Then I’ll go and get a

pregnancy test from the market. Maybe after you confirm

going anywhere. Sit your ass down.

DOMONIC

your

moment he walks into my house to

Draven to my father? Or was it Barier? Maybe, it was both of them. Either way, it doesn’t matter. Now, at least i know where she is and I dont have to worry as much. At the same time, knowing that I can see her if I want to has induced the quivering pulpitations of my already trembling heart.

where they are. What would you

jaw clenches.

relief, the barely contained excitement. All of it says that he not the one who went them there–That he

fuck do you mean? Canada?”

empty bottle of scotch I was holding across the living room to shatter against the wall. “I think it was Bartlett. He sent them there,” I grow “And I dont know whether to thank him or kill

face turning red with anger. All those unmuted

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