The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

The Pack: Rule Number 1 – No Mates

Chapter One Hundred–Fifteen

DRAVEN

My eyes darken, my body shivering as I read the scrap of a message over and over again.

What is this? Why would Domonic give me something like this?

“What is it?” Tandora asks. “What’s wrong?”

My hands are trembling as I snap

the

box closed without answering. “I–I’m not sure… I

“What is it, Draven? What’s in the box?”

I meet her hazel gaze with worried eyes and she curses, ripping the box from my hands and opening it. I gaze around at the beautiful nursery for a long moment, my presence in the room feeling suddenly alien and somewhat out of place. I think of Domonic’s happy face. The way he looked before he left me in the driveway. Does he know what’s in the box? How can he not?

“Oh… fuck,” Tardora murmurs, shaking her head and placing the now closed box back in my hands. “Someone else did this. We have to call Domonic

Suddenly the memory of Domonic shoveling me to safety burns into my mind and I snap, “No!”

Tandora pauses, her fingers posed over the dial pad of her phone as she studies me. “No?”

I take a deep breath in an attempt to control my nerves as I gaze out the window toward the beauty of the woods and whatever might be watching there. “No,” I repeat, my eyes lighting with ange don’t know what it means but I do know this – Dumonic would not have put

tell him about it he il only get upset. He’ll want to be careful. Hell-”

sat message in there for me. Someone else did. And if

“-send you away,” she finishes

as our gazes clash and I shove the amned jewelry box hack in my pocket. She nods at me in understanding. “And you’re sure he didn’t put it in there?”

My eyes are wildly. “What?”

She giggles, shrugging, “I had to ask.” She sighs, “I know all about the No Mates thing. We all do. And I agree with you. Domonic wouldn’t

have done this”

myself to force the sudden

bones. Im not going to let him push me away

yellow then hazel “Well then, I guess theres only one thing for us to do.”

I whisper, my mind clouding with anger as I flip the shade swatch to the beautiful nursery and deny whomever

a couple

My head jeti

about Emily and Koda? I

“It’s still early and we only just dropped

only a threat

Busy?” Tardora chuckles.

come over. He may have

you trust him not to

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nod, a fresh smile breaking through

DOMONIC

will take us longer to arrive on Crown Mountain if you get arrested for Reckless Driving,” Gryffin saya belandly. wanted to by you only needed ask. We could

Hummer better. Besides, you still havent shifted in over a month. Maybe you shouldn’t be riding until you get Tion back. Just imagine… you crash, slide across the asphalt, and can’t bad. You should be glad you have

“Just had to bring that up, did you? Asshole.”

did.” I say mockingly.

yours

but Draven likes him. She trusts him. Besides, are not the only on we need to speak with,” I say, thinking of Gabriel who is presently locked away in the dungeon of Town Hall. The plan cemains to banish him, but with Jason still out there, we decided it wasn’t yet safe to set him free. A good thing too, because as much as I lute to admit it. Gabriel might provide more useful to Gryffin’s problem than Benjamin. After all, Gabriel has

happened. I was sure I was dying. I felt so tired all of the time. I really began to beline that one day I was going to steep

head snaps up, my gaze narrowing. “What?

something like that?”

truth. Try to imagine what you would feel like without your wolf.”

I wanted

that. Took

– fuck off.”

1–he cuts out with a frown “never mind.” He grimaces, stukig himself. It took some time before I realized what I was feeling was not that I was dying. It was that…

if we cant find help for you? Will that be

a muted brown, dimming sadly. “I don’t know, I guess.. I just have to believ will find an answer for this, I refuse to accept that my lion is gone. I was born a lion and I will

UNKNOWN

bastardo Marcus è morto? The bastard Marcus is dead?

ucciso prima che ci scagliassimo contro di lui.” He is sir. He was killed before we set upon

Draven? And what