The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

Chapter Ninety–Six

After tracking Unity’s were though

wd for half an aftermoon we finally lost in the river. Four of us were scouring the opposite shoreline, hoping that korven tud taken her muted upstream to the other side, but so far that they want yielding any results. Koda was frantic, his movements panicked. He

a moment to ground himmell, but I wasn’t going to be the one to tell him hitting back into my human form at I near the summit of one beny glance around at my brothers to call them to attention.

trop.” I say softly. One by one they gather amund me, shifting back into their human Turms. Koda, however, remains as his wolf. Gazing up at the streaming rapids note there seems to be a furning up ahead. As if there in a fork in the ever up top and a second waterfall on the other side of it. They didn’t dinh ddann waterfall,” I print out. Searching the ground an carefully as I can near the point of the over where we lost her scent, I look for something diffe Espe, rahi indentations, pirn prints. Anything. And that in when I realize. There seems to be a shadow behind the fall. There’s a cone up there,” I hiss, and Paul, my Beta and longtime best friend cuties…

The can’t go into a cane without knowing where it leads. Well, I mean–he

Koča growls, his rumble an unmistakable protest to Pel’s local thinking

the eyes of Kodas attentive black wolf–we shouldnt

hat my father might have found out. Den might. She might have information we need.” I metodas blazing blue glare with

g away from me to study the water and the rocks, as if looking for the best way to climb in.

We can let him in alone.” Quinn says, idling up to me. “I go with him.”

and. “Good idea. You go with him, Rainier and Lief climb to the peak and find out where the other waterfall leads. After watching the four of them disappear,

back to the whelp from the market, whose name I still havent bothered to learn, ask him, “Is Blue Ridge near here?”

He sight, exhaustion riding his features. The other side of the mountain. But it’s abandoned. It’s nothing but ruins.”

T

can see for themselves? I almost mit the flare of fear that I see in the whelps eyes, because De schooled his features swiftly, but catch it. Of course I do. So I push a little. In fact, I think Andrew and Logan should go with you too. Because if

still inhabited I will take all four of them to tear you apart the

fregnes, his eyes going wide with fear. “You can’t do that! Please! There might be people there, I don’t know. Not everyone wanted

if they

it was in ruins, les actes “Ruins don’t house people, little wolf. You

his wolf is half the size of one of our nating “My name is Lenny! But, the. So there are people there. But they are rogues son made them that way when he left. He forbade them to join us, leaving them

“One of the gatekeepers? What the fuck does he have

leave people mutilated? Hex post a Gamma. A soldier. Besides, I thought the pack disbanded because

definitely that. But not all people were allowed to recognize it as such.” He smirks. Those who rebelled against new leadership were taud. A portion of bone mach for a lifetime of freedom. Jason‘) Law. Sure, Jason is a Gamma now, but he was nece the Alpha

chuckle. “You’re bo

me

shake of his head. “Jason was a great leader. He kept most of the women reminded of their place. Locking his

she caused trouble.”

the fuck? Do the council members know of

Thomas and Ambassador Gabriel came to visit our pack six years ago. They liked the way lason can things. They said it was the best way for the more

that Hartlett insisted he stay behind with Draven, even if

inform my dad of Thomas treachery.

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Chapter Ninety Six

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bid fe Alpha in my alarmce. Our was Gabriel… could the

my feet, Tell me more. What other ways did

grins, his eyes growing excitul first. Sentertimes, if the