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?”

know I

more than one stare from the onlookers. And is going to be your

as he begins to crumble in fear, dropping toward the ground

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

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on the first ring.

need you at the

Something has happened”

My dads voice is cold with

unconscious, inside the mpty market, but thes okay. I need you top down

Beamer. Before my dad is even all the way out of

What the hell

asks as he

cottage. The boys will be here in about hour. If I’m not back by then, send

“Where are you

these people know! The pair of them nod. And I spin around, glaring down at the trembling, frightened shifter that I dented

“For

join

DRAVEN

cold rag over my eyes. The sensation feels so nice that I sigh contentedly and shit slightly deeper into the downy softness of the bed. My movement silences the room around me and for the first time remember that I’m not supposed to be in my room. I’m supposed to be at the market with Emily. Not in my bed. Why

eyes flying open as my head goes smming.

a

familiar

approaches me on the bed. “Bart?” I squawk. He nods, taking a seat next we sounds horrible. My that is dry and raw, my limbs slightly sore. My hand ramver my belly as if to

me in close, lifting me into his lap so I can bury my face in his neck. “I

softly. And Jesus, did

here,” he

sus from the doorway.

my gan falls around the room

my right

you remember what happened

is troubled and he and Chase pile into the room to take seats on opposite sides

were at the market… Emily and L Thing -Ip, shifting through the scattered

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We were leaving,

Chase pipes up