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”

around myself to force the sudden chill fo

going to let him push me away

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

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

smirks “We figure it out ourselves. And we get a couple more

My head jeti

Koda? I nibble my

early and we only just dropped them off. They

only a threat to me. It’s a

Busy?” Tardora chuckles.

come over. He may have an

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

riding until you get Tion back. Just imagine… you crash, slide across the asphalt, and can’t bad. You

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

did.” I say mockingly.

yours can help. Gryflin comments sadly,

banish him, but with Jason still out there, we decided it wasn’t

humans are, I mean I knew they 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 I was going to steep and simply stay that way. He chuckles, Tactually

narrowing. “What? Why would you

something like that?”

Try to imagine what you would feel

be tough and I would definitely feel lost, but… trail off thinking of Draven and how she would feel if I wanted to die because I couldn’t shift. “But it wouldn’t matter as much to me to lose my

finally realized that. Took you

fuck

“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… I

becoming human. What if we cant find help for you? Will that be so bad?

muscles tense his once golden eyes now 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

UNKNOWN

The bastard Marcus is

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

And what