The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

hapter One Hundred–Thirteen

DOMONIC

Once I was finally able to ding Koda outside and away from Emily, I sen the infirmary stall home. Cadence included. The rest of us- Bartlett, James, Rainier, Timmons, Andrew, Lief, and Benjamin congregled just outside the building next to our cars.

“If this is about that fucking rule, it can wait. I don’t want to fight right now. I want to be the first person Emily sees when she wakes.”

I shake my head, swallowing my guilt for the moment. I’ll apologize eventually, sure, but right now there are more important things to discuss. “I’ve called a vote, and before I tell you what for I need confirmation.”

“Confirmation?” Koda hisses tiredly. “Of what?”

I tilt my head, doing my best to keep my features steady, impassive. “Of whether or not you’ve decided to keep Emily.”

for real?

He snorts, shaking his head as his eyes narrow at me. “Are you fo

“Just a

answer the question Koda.”

His jaw clenches, his back going ramrod straight. “Yes. Of course I am.

“Are you willing to move your life here? I mean – is this place where you want to be?”

“Are you asking me if I’m willing to leave the pack just to be with her?

That’s not what I’m asking, but I nod anyway, just for kicks.

He glares, a low growl rumbling behind his throat. “If that’s the way it has to be, then fine. I’ll leave the pack.”

So the answer is yes.

You’d give it all up for her?”

Koda nods, the dark blue of his gaze going cold as ice.

“Thank God,” I say, “Because I’ve decided I would do the same. But, neither of us should have to.”

Each of my brothers around us laughs, save for Rainier, who has gone eerily quiet.

“What the fuck does that mean, Dom?” Koda whispers, his muscles tensing. ‘Are you saying what I think you’re saying?”

I nod, “Yup.

Called in a vole e with Paul and the others already. The only one left undecided was you.”

Koda smiles, “And you already knew what my answer would be.”

laugh, “I had a pretty

then?

gaze for a long, heavy moment. “More

I clench my

his gaze away to climb behind the wheel of his

“Where is he going?”

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sigh, shaking my wad. To

mer it,” Bartlett remarks. “Give him some time.”

the one vote against, huh? Why? I

don’t think his wife

behind the mountains. “What are we

turn toward Benjamin. “I think I have a plan for that

DRAVEN

soft sing song voice chimes through my

my eyes. Drool dribbles from my mouth as I come

I must have fallen asleep.

and I

my limbs. For a moment, I simply sit there in my seat, eyes blinking against the light, body wobbling back and forth as I try and make sense of where and who I am. It takes me a full on minute to realize the cute blond pixie standing before me

“Emily?” I yelp.

nod before I’m rocketting out of my seat to crush her beneath

body folding into mine as we crash the bed into the wall. “We’re alive.”

muddy clothes and the golden tan of her skin. My eyes go straight for her throat, for the bare trace of a crescent shaped mark near the side of her neck where Koda bit her hours ago. There are no black veins anywhere to be found and 1 suddenly feel like breaking out in a dance. That’s when I notice, we are alone in the infirmary. Completely

alone.

releasing Emily to wander a few steps

shrugs. “Who

cross my arms over my chest, my brow furrowing as I work to remember what

Koda… Koda asked me to watch Emily for a few minutes while they stepped outside. I took a seat in the chair and must have simply passed out. After the last couple of nights that I’ve had, I guess it was to be

I ask her.

“I don’t know. A few minutes. When I woke up, you were the only one here.

out. He wanted to be here when you woke

filling with tears. “He saved me, didn’t he?”

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eyes as the gas

andele Koda was going to come for me,

falling sad. To

I cally fold Sanon that to try

over you for hours before I came. He was so afraid he was

eyes to slide down her chank “Restart

raps

want to hear every little thing you have to

but then he bit met And he left me in