The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

apter Seventy–Eight

DOMONIC

On the way out of town, Koda and I decide to stop at the boy so that I can throw alle shade Bartlett’s way before we leave. The place is a fatle begier might than it has been the entier month that Draven has been gone, Înt sti nothing compared to what it was when she was hese. She really did have a way with the customers. They were drawn to her in a was that was destinbing beker, but none only serves as a reminder of hose special she is. The moment I see Bartlett, I notice he is on the phone and looking ridiculously happy, I freeze, mrhing back into the shadowed hallway and hoping he hasn’t yet meiend my presence. The music in here is toes lead for me to hear the voice of the person he’s talking to, but I can hear him just fine.

“I could try and head over there after closing, but I have in he back before moming He says solemnly. “So maybe it’s best if I wait until next week. That way I can pet someone to take meet and stay a couple of days.”

Does he have à més adient?

I chuckle

to myself. Its about time he got laid. Maybe if the bastand has something dip into he can stay out of everyone else’s business.

“Really He says into the phone and my muscles tense. Gabriel? What? I don’t think you should be hanging out with him, kiddo. He’s a bit of a womanizer”

Gabriel? As in THE GABRIEL? The one whose father tried to challenge my dad for his position as Alpha all those years ago?

Could Bartlett be on the phone with Druven right now

Calm yourself Dumani, it probably but what you think. But who else does he call kiddo

we’ll see.

Backing out of the bar before he can notice me I jog back to my hummer and dive back behind the wheel.

“What’d be say? Roda asks.

p down the alley behind a few businesses so that Bartlett does see my car as we leave, “Nothing Idn’t speak to him

I creep

Koda chuckles, “Okay. Not even gonna ask.”

I groan, turning toward the highway. “You remember David? The wannabe Alpha that challenged my dad about seven years ago?”

Koda nods, saying nothing as he gazes out the window into the fallen sun.

name again? Gabriel, wasn’t

it was ‘Yes.‘

turning onto State Highways Sixteen and pushing my speed

least, are still intact, then theres a strong possibility that his lion may return without help. Or maybe, he just needs proper motivation. It’s been my mind a lot lately. I feel partially responsible. After all, he would never have been in any danger If he wasn’t trying to help

into Canada, that may become a very

cut down on as much drive

out where

grin with a shake of my head. “Gryllin came to see me today. He says Taedora’s

shorts, “Christ. That

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Chapter Seventy–Eight

subside. Almens if, it knows I am on the right track, I mirk at him. “What does your heart tell

booking away from the scenery to take inventory of what he’s eling. A look of satisfaction wishes over his face as

flooring the accelerator and upping our speed to a hundred and ten.

DRAVEN

me, chasing away the aching in

Fix pregnant.

be a mydomonic, you asshole! Why did you have to be such a fucking pussy and chase me away

little life inside my belly i from you?

the trash and staring at myself in the bathroom mirror. It was only important that he fack me, not keep me. Dann hies. God knows what he might say about

confirms it. Domonk hed to me, back in Port Orchard. Dotsonic said Margo was his mate. And even though Adam told me the moment I got here, that Domenic had to have–saying Domonic wouldn’t have marked me if it were true I wasn’t bully sure I believed him until now. But why elke that? Just to keep me ? AGAIN? A thinks thats why he did it. A noble excuse for his only son, I guess. Adam thinks Domonic was terrified of my being so close to where his mother was killed, that he pushed me away to prevent my meder. He says when his wife and the other were killed, Damselc and the rest of them came up with a set of rules. Kule number one? No mates. Not

us here. At least he had the right idea This would have been the

town as well as Pail back in Port Orchard have said a male shifter can only reproduce with his mate. According to the experts”, a female shifter can get pregnant by anyour. Therefore, women rule. Haha fellas, we win again. As it is, I might fuck with Domanie’s head a

the child in my womb being bom, I don’t see myself alone. I see him. Demonic. I envision him at my side for the entire birth, then I picture him holding our child in his arms when it’s done. But… it’s just a daydream. What happens when the fool decides its too risky for me to be wandering around breathing The Tree? Will he lock me away? Build a fireproof jail

idea of calling him just to hear him say hello. Who knows, maybe the answer to what I should do about this will come to me with

might create a surge in the struggle for power among the younger wolves and the Elder Council 1 don’t see how that would be, but I’m new to all this shit. Everyone I’ve met so far has been exceedingly polite to me. But then again, I haven’t met many people. In the past month Emily and I have mainly kept to ourselves. We only ever leave the college to walk along the path through

last full moon. When all of the men shifted and were gone for the entire night. It was like a ghost towns. All that were left here were women,

the bathroom door shakes me out of my

my hands and tucking the positive test strip safely away in the cupboard.

word of the princess?”

the excitement of Adam’s gaze. I tell he’s trying to look careless, but the hope is there, practically shimmering

the gray of his inses. I give him a barely perceptible nod and the grin he rewards me