The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

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The Pack: Rule Number 1 – No Mates

Chapter Eighty–One

DOMONIC

“Are we really going to do this?” Koda asks once we are seated in my hummer and clicked out of the lodge. Bridgette wasn’t there. She had apparently gone home and thank God for that. The few times that I’d seen her since my father’s visit last night, she’d done little more than hit on me at every turn.

“I don’t know,” say. Thinking back to the conversation I had with my father the night before. “We’re at least going to play along for a bit. I need to make it clear that Draven isn’t to be counted.

“Courted?” Koda chuckles.

I shrug. “His words, not mine. My dad told me that Gabriel had been pushing for a change in power over the last year and the arrival of Draven has only spumed him on. The bastard met Draven on the train. According to my dad Gabriel was returning from a trip to California as an ambassador of sorts. Of course, I shared the recent trouble we’ve had in town and expressed my suspicions of what Gabe was really doing there. But my dad confirmed that Gabriel is their contact between north and south territories. Apparently the new wolves that joined this chapter of the Red Wolf Pack came from the Timber Wolf pack of northern California. They were outcasts. Pack members who were exiled but did not accept the position of moque. The trines had been silly enough for my father and his council to deem forgivable

My dad was not happy to hear that the killer was still around. The message on the wall of the dungeon was a pretty obvious calling cand.

“I still can’t believe that he named you Alpha. And absent all this time? What the hell Koda chortles. Then, his gaze turns serious as I pull out of the lodge parking lot and onto the backroad behind the building. “I thought we were here to take the ghs back, not take over another territory.”

I grimace, not wanting to say much more about that. 3ty dad told me that Draven is going to be difficult to convince to leave. That plus he and she have bonded over this past month. Not going to lie, the thought had me smiling. My father seemed to have a light about his eyes that went out years ago and I knew without asking what had put it there. Draven. It may be safer for them here, Koda. At least until we handle things in Port Orchard”

ing kidding me.”

“You’ve got to be fucking

“Think about it. They’re not far away, They’re protected by a large number of wolves side eye him as we cruise toward a bridge at the edge of Crown Mountain “Have you thought about whether or not you’re going to mark Emilly?”

He grits his teeth, shaking his head. “And be in as much pain as you were in when we leave without them? No thanks.”

girls back and truthfully, it was what I planned to do at first. Until I heard all my dad had to say about his place. They have guards that patrol the town all day and all night. They’ve never been attacked by any outside force. There are

rifle and an expiece. “Think about it this way,” I say, lowering my voice

wolf says. “A pleasure to finally meet you. I’m

nod, not saying anything before rolling my window back up. Alpha Domonic. Not sure that like the formal address. Traditionally, this is how an Alpha

and the damn thing

feel if they knew your Beta is at home with absolutely no knowledge of where we fe right now Koda comments.

I say with a shrug.

least twenty park members lining the streets on each side.

think they know? Koda

say before I kill the engine

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Chapter Eighty–One

DRAVEN

actually be able to scent his presence if I stepped outside? The possibility is not enough to urge me outdoors. Because, as much as I have longed for his arms around me, I still can’t shake the pain of his fies from my heart. The fact that he put a goddamned

into his beautiful gray eves? Or if I hear his sexy voice and see his adorable dimples? I might crumble. I will be putty in his hands. And perrt Jos lets not forget his muscles… there’s not much of a chance that he left those

to see him? The meaway. Maybe he’s here

my phone rings. Adam.

into the phone, only

voice. “Our Alpha has arrived.

I mean

on speaker as I join Emily in the kitchen. She gives me a curious look when I place my phone down on the counter before her. “Domonic?” I quip, ignoring

meeting is set to start any minute.

tell him about…” I cut off my subconscious mind protecting me from the super

and a slight commotion is heard on his end of the line. “When he sees