The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

13:08 Thu Nov 14

The Pack: Rule Number 1- No Mates

Chapter One Hundred–Thirty–Three

DOMONIC

A package came in the mail today for Draven. There is no return address and no identifying marks. As far as I’m aware, she hasn’t ordered anything for herself, but then again, I can’t really be certain. The box is small and wrapped like a present. I highly doubt that it would be a gift she bought for me, but it is possible. I stare at it in the middle of my dining room table and wonder if I should open it myself before she gets back. What if it’s something dangerous? What If It’s a new messige? If it is, I don’t want her frightened away from me, I don’t want her to nim. Her living here with me is more than I could have eich hoped for after what I did. I love the way she woke me up this morning just to get the keys to my car. I like the thought of spoiling her, of sharing everything I have with her. The way I took her against the shower wall last night, marking her as I pumped myself inside her. Ensing the tension of the upcoming Full Moon Shift. These are all things I never realized I would want before I met her. When we created those rules so long ago… I didn’t know how wonderful it could be to simply have her.

The longer I stare at the box, the more the need to open it grows. Fuck if it were supposed to be a surprise for me, she should have been wwaiting for it.

I reach for it, tearing into the box neatly, just in case I decide to tape it back up. A small wooden jewelry box sits inside of it shrouded vaguely familiar scent.

The scent of a shifter… the scent of an unfamiliar wolf

Suddenly I am on guard, opening it carefully and preparing myself for something gruesome.

But what sits inside is anything but. It’s a polished golden locket with two pictures inside. The one on the right is of a child. A tiny littlè girl with bright green eyes and unruly black hair. The other is of a word. A very familiar looking woman

It is this woman’s picture that has my blood running gold. Because the woman looks nearly identical to Draven.

What

the fuck is this? I hiss

RAINIER

clothes. I’m almost out the door when I

fuck are you

for the

Shit. Turning around, I fish through my bowl full of lies as she watches me like a serpent coming in

over my outfit lazily. “In that? Shouldn’t you be wearing

dont really think she will, but one of the things Draven did say to me was that it’s not fair for me to keep Angie a secret. And even though 1 led Draven to believe that I wasn’t going to be keeping Felix, I could tell that she didn’t agree with that decision. It was obvious

can sense. She won’t outright throw me under the

it’s better if she does. Maybe it’s better if Felix just

I have to

can, okay? I don’t have time to talk

now

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behind myself and jump into dy cur before she can

heard them anyway. She’d said Water if you leave, you’re going to regret it.” And maybe I will, maybe I won’t. Angie’s not a big girl It’s not us if I believe she’s going to beat me up. Maybe if she weren’t so angry all the time–maybe if she showed me even a little bit of the sweet, helpless girl she used to be I might feel bad about what I’m doing. But as things

TELIX

and down with excitement as I sip my margarita. “Oh my God! I’m a fucking killer!! I shout, and the girls around me double up with laughter. Ryder blushes and it is then

okay. You

in the sky and the beautiful dark–skinned girl called Thedora is busily cleaning our catches while perched on the patio table under the umbrella.

squeals, dancing around. This is so much fun! I don’t even want to go back!”

the mainland as if in search of something. “Besides, our