The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

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The Pack: Rule Number 1 – No Mates

Chapter Ninety–Five

DOMONIC

When we roll up to the market, all I can see is the small throng of pack members that crowd the front entrance. The doors are closed, the lights are dim, and there not a single sign of movement inside. My heart aches in my chest. that the fick had happened beve? Koda and I leap out of the Hummer, leaving it running and. diving toward the front of the market. What I can see through the dnk of the tinted glass clenches my throat with fear.

Deaven’s body lays crumpled on the ground just inside.

“What happened here?” I hear Koda ask, not truly expecting an anRUPT.

I reach for the doors, using all my strength to pay them opens with my fingertips. A sfying snap sounds around me as I break the latch and I slide the doors open with ease. “Baby” I shout, pulling her into my anus and lifting her from the ground. “Who did this?” I screech. She’s breathing and her pulse is strong, so I release the breath I had no idea Id been holding and place her in the backseat of my car. She has slight lump on her forehead, but she’s otherwise unharmed. But still, my body tenses with anger.

Is she okay?” Rodrank.

“I think so,” I hiss. “Grab as many of these people as you can. We need to know what happened.”

La minute,” koda says, taking a deep whiff of the air. “Where’s Emily?”

1 spin around as Koda shifts into his massive black wolf right here on the pavement, his clothing shredding around him. He races into the store, niffing at the ground near the door before stalking toward the back of the market with a growl.

I scan the crowd, my eye catching on a well–built male with the hint of a smirk on his face. “You” I hiss, wasting no time as 1 grab him by the collar of his shirt. 35 fangs slice our threateningly and I throw him against the side of my car with enough force to dent the passenger door. “What are you smiling about?”

The sideways smile from a moment ago melts into a frown. A muscle in his jaw ticks nervously as he clamps his lips together, shaking his head. “T–Im not smiling.

1 chuckle, shaking my head at him and stepping in close. “Who did this?”

He swallows anxiously, his body trembling. I wasn’t in the store. I don’t know.”

“You saw something,” I snap. “Tell me what you saw.”

He shakes his head, “I just got here,” he says, his eyes shooting left and right skittishly, “All I know is that girl is a troublemaker and she probably deserved what happened to her. Whatever it was.”

I could smash him. I could reach my hand up around his throat and squeer hard enough for his head to pop off his neck, but I don’t. My eyes go dark and lean in close to whisper. Do you know who I am?”

He trembles. “Th the new Alpha?”

“That’s correct,” I say softly, glaring down on him. “And that troublemaker do you know who she is?

His eyes light with defiance. “N–not really. Gabriel says-

‘1 do not give a salty Ettle fuck what Gabriel says. What do you say?”

dont know I

to, is my mate, I announce, catching more than

eyes dare wide, as he begins to crumble in fear, dropping toward the ground as if to kneel at my feet. “I had no ideat

in the store. In fact, it doesn’t sound like he’s even in tom. He must have scaled the wall on the border and

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the first ring.

need you at the

Something has happened”

voice is cold with bay.

market, but thes okay. I need you top down here and take her home.”

dad and Chase pull up to the market in a black Beamer. Before my dad is even all the way

What the hell

as

my dad. “Emily is missing” I inform him pointing toward the backseat and then toward the cottage. The boys will be here in about hour. If I’m not back by then, send them East into the woods to

“Where are you

help Koda search. Take care of Draven and I’ll meet you as soon as I can then turning to Chase, I say. Find out what these people know! The pair of them nod. And

finches. “For what

To join the

DRAVEN

the bed. My movement

the rag falling into my lap and my eyes flying open as my head goes smming. “Emily?” Sur, maybe a bit

blurry and it takes a few

kiddo,” a familiar voice

dry and raw, my limbs slightly sore. My hand ramver my belly as if

so I can bury my face in his neck. “I

here,” I say softly. And Jesus,

here,” he

Adam’s voor sus from the doorway.

as my gan falls around the

God my right

remember what happened

and he and Chase pile into the room to take seats on opposite sides of the bed.

winding back slowly. “We were at the market… Emily and L Thing -Ip,

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We didnt feel comfitable. We were leaving,

Chase pipes