The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

Chapter One Hundred–Thirty–Five

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“I’m not going to tell him about her,” Draven agrees. “But at the tatte

With a nod, I hand her the keys to the speedhost so that she and the others can i Emily and Ryder as they carefully step from the gangplank to

was a shock to find her asleep in the cabin.”

speedboat. “1 appriebes how you handed

Draven laughs, “For Ryder, yes. For me, not so much. The moment I er lying man,

I tick my jaw, my eyes going straight for my left hand and the empty ring finger. She’s not mine) |

Draven sighs, following my gaze and taking note of the missi

have a feeling that Ryder is in love with her.”

I can’t help but grin at that. “She’s definitely

Draven sports. “You’ve got to be kidding me. A buffalo i

first pick. You got more than lucky.”

1 stuffed a groan. She’s not wrong.

Höp Parkction. I’m talling–Destiny Duct round one

“I mean, you have to ask yourself–by what design are we had to a specific individual & person, so corner that no matter where you start out, destiny

human or Shifter, or witch or warlock-

“Witch of warlock?”

“Im just saying… Destiny ever since meeting Domonie,

easier for Shifters to recognize them than it is for humans to, see better… feel stronger. Maybe that’s why husums hirve sor Maybe we lost them somewhere along the way, I dunno, kind

true love. Because as humunn, our senses are dilin

“That’s pretty deep. Draven. Not sure how much of that is true, but it definite kopal

“Are we leaving or what? Taedora shouts from the other bout. The letove

“I’m coming!” Draven shouts, before turning back to me. “Just hear

second, okay?”

brightly at me as the wind married and then we discovered that Domonic was my

bar ay from her ber. Trugine you and 1

me

go up, but I allow it. “Nothing. I

across her beautiful face. Exactly. And that i would you be free to find your mate, but as a Shifter, you know

of depriving another wolf

able to do, because

thing. You know that

Th–huh

this… why is it that you would never dream

you have zero

Chapter One Hundred–Thirty–Five

human… of

flinch, her words burrowing into my skull. I can’t even

Domonic, for Draven wrecking my head.

as she makes her way over to the gingplank. “Tra like

don’t want to belong to her,

her off when she blows me a kiss before speeding away to leave me out here with my demons. That girl rea Luna,” I say into the wind.

toward the open cabin doors

couch and help but allow myself

tonight. My animal urges are always unpredictable this close to a forced shift. The fact that Felix is my mate will only serve to brightes my torment. The need to mark one’s mate is always ten times more powerful on the days prior to the shift. Nice to mention, sexual appetites are borderline insatiable, our self–control is pretty much at a zero, and being this

here I

intention of docking tonight. It’s almost as if I want to tempt fate. Or I want to lose cornros. Our Use twelve of us, I have always been known as the most logical of us. In the same way that Koda is known for his volatile temper known for detaching from my emotions. For being the least affected, the most aloof, completely dispassionate. But since meeting I’ve begun to realize something. The indifference that I once saw as my strength, is naught but an illusion. Because I don’t really it. It only seemed like I did. In truth, my

The truth?

simply easy to do. And it was only easy because I

saw Felix on the security tapes, something happened to

event became about

that I had bad guys to catch, and a pretty cool trick that I use to track them called thing. I bypassed all routine protocol

going to get dropped. But ask me if I give

other night after I rid the world of Hector and Felix talked to me about the

harder than an iron fist and if it hadn’t been so fucken cold last night I might still be hard

when she started crying because she felt rejected and then apologard to me for evening that she might stand a chance she might be

have been point black staring at her for damn near an hour and she is now – eyes wide open – String back. I’m feeling again. The difference is, at this particular moment.

her legs into herself in

go.

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