The Pack: Rule Number 1 – No Mates

Chapter Seventy–Nine

DRAVEN

My muscles tense. No. No way. I mean, I did sort of notice that Gabriel didn’t seem to the ber mark, but Hiped it was just beca idea he was making asumptions about her. “You’ve got tri be kidding me

“Im not,” Adam says.

namma my eyes, stokking my arms over my chest and glaring at the street deftly. In be bor

Adam chuckles, wagging his finger in my face in warning. Hex at his fam in only serve to spark his already feeble sell control. Do not say a word.”

And good

Rolling me ever, I give Adam a quick

the check. Th

But Em supposed to have breakfast with him tomorrow and if begins Emily so much as

The smile Adam gives me reminds me so much of Demonic that my throat constricts. No snapping. Remember you tomorrow. Don’t hesitate to call me over should you need me.”

Most promise, watching him walk over the lawn to his house next door.

kut you re carrying and stayi

We smile at each other as he disappears inside and for a moment I take a deep breath to keep my emotions at bay. I never knew my com chance. The thought that Domonic is so fucking inconsiderate of his own boils my insides, I mean sure, he lost his mom, but his father si still here and loody without him.

Right then, 1 make myself a promise. No matter what the outcome is between Domotic and me – I will never abandon the man who took us in Adam is going to be a constant part of my baby’s life and if Dumonic has a problem with that, he can go sight to hell. By himself too. Because

Adama pain..

Furm, the trees are so vibrant tonight. Normally when it gets dark out, the whole of the woods becomes as black as a But tonight I can see the color of the lees, The grooves along the bark. Even the dirt path behind the houses. The moon even appears brighter, not to mention that I can see the enters along its face. T1 b dunned,” 1 whisper. All my senses seem to be heightened. How cool is that? “Have the tickets always been this damn loud?” I wy before shutting the door and the lock

Glancing toward the kitchen, my nose scrunches up. I can still smell the fried catfish open the backdoor leaving the screen latched and kitchen window create a cross rece. I need to force out the smell. Apparently this kid doesn’t like catfish. Opening the fridge, I take stock of what’s inside. Yogurt, leftover chicken… steak!!!

watering as I unwrap the paper encating

“Oh yeah,” I sing, whipping the red meat out and grabbing a cast iron p

pan. My mouth begins watering both steaks on a fresh cutting board, I grab the butter and light a burner under the pan. Then, as I cut half a stick of butter to the beat. I reach to my left and bring the raw steak to my Eps. Nibbling on it while the butter melts over the herbs. The added to the pan. This is going to be so good.” I gurgle through

“Dravent?!” Enely shrieks, coming into the kitchen from the hall. Her hair is wrapped in a towel and she smells like fresh apples. “What the fuck are you eating?”

“Huh?” I say, noticing for the first time that I’ve devoured half of a new l

bringing the bloody steak away from my lips guiltly. “Fuck me”

Guest the bo

likes it

Let me

and nudging me

is still on my

granting me an astonished smile. So it’s

stomp toward the sofa

other side of the half–wall divider. “Does this mean you’re finally

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to sound nonchalant

this past

I say, Hipping

avadding her question. That talk in your sleep?”.

Bunches.

I informs het with

Anything intelligible

chuckling to myself as I settle on a retum of The Other Bast one

newfound wolf shither senses I

the leg. “That’s not funny,”

when you were napping on the couch, you called båa nume there damn

the counter with a little more force than my new hearing

Boda as irritable as he been this past month. Apparently the boy starts fights with anything

miss the half smile that quirks across her lips. “Did you ask about Domonic? She inquires, coming around the

beat him up pretty badly when he figured out he dropped us at the train station and not at the airport. It pissed me off and I decided that was

did he find out? Emily gushed, her

eyebrow. “Koda, apparently.”

She coos. “So Koda was looking for

shrug. “That’s

DOMONIC

dirt road that leads

up,” I snap at

sparks to lie, rubbing his eyes and rolling down the window to take a deep inhale of the

I ask, rolling mine down as well.

says. “But my chest pains are gone.”

So she is your

up,” he says, straightening in seat and tilting head to stare at me for a long moment. “What’s the plan? Are we

parking in front of the main office. “I don’t know,” I

chuckles.

employee in the space is instantly alert. Each pair

of the air as I hand her my credit card, I note the faint

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daughter of sodurone I know, but

eyes falling over me

for fuck’s sake.

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