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”

arms around myself to force the sudden chill

not going to let

flashing yellow then hazel “Well then, I guess theres only one

to the beautiful nursery and deny whomever may be watching the pleasure of

figure it out ourselves. And we get a couple more

My head jeti

about Emily and Koda? I nibble my lip as 1 realize this

only

is no longer only a threat to me. It’s

Busy?” Tardora chuckles.

“But Bart. He can come over. He may have an

you trust him not to say anything?

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Chapter One Hundred–Fifteen

breaking

DOMONIC

for Reckless Driving,” Gryffin saya belandly.

Tion back. Just imagine… you crash, slide across the asphalt, and can’t bad. You should be

to bring

I say

this doctor of yours can help.

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.

were inferior. But… I hadn’t realized how interior until When it first happened. I was sure I was dying. I felt so tired all of the time. I really began to beline that one day

snaps up, my gaze narrowing. “What? Why would you

something like that?”

imagine what

feel if I wanted to

finally realized that.

– fuck

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.

becoming human. What if we cant find

an answer for this, I refuse to accept that my lion is gone. I was born a lion and I will die one.

UNKNOWN

morto? The bastard Marcus is

di lui.” He is sir. He was killed before we

Draven? And