The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

Chapter One Hundred–Sixty–Seven

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“What are you saying? 1 ask, reaching out to lift his chin and mindig lots stand heaven her kes

She smiles and my chest fotters. My gundian, the whispers, has eyedpropping from my toy me and tacked om?

in

As I watch her, my mind reals, I think an Old foralling in on the shes the parking lot and the man he get dried

I

Inne she saw my Rings in the house. Does th

Thraven told you,” I say as softly as I can. Not sure how I feel about that

She nods, and 1 regard her carefully. “She did.”

She shrugs, I don’t know how to answer that. Everything, I guess, and your pack and what you are. I probably about you if I hadn’t already been thinking – well hoping that it could be true.

“Hoping? I’m almost afraid to ask.

Yes.” She blushes, biting her lip and making me want to kiss her. “When I woke up with your ripped

neck, it was hard to explain away what I’d seen you do and thats when the fantasies started rolling i

“Fantasier, huh?” 1 Lick my lips thinking we should get to the bar so that we can play out a fe

Yeah, don’t you know? Werewolves are hot.”

I laugh, stepping closer to her.

She also told me why you bit me. She says that Im your mate and that when she cuts off, tears slipping from back a sob and her beautiful face pinkers. I reach out and take her hand, squeezing genth. “When I told you that you had you panicked.” She pauses, shedding a few tears and I nod, shaking off the memory of what I bit that morning. Her emotion when she speaks next. “She says that I’m the one you are meant to be with

“Yes. Did you get my note?” I ask gently.

́ ́“I did,” she says. “I have it in my b

back pocket and it makes way more seme

it did

I didn’t tell you about Angle, I know it hurt you to find out the way you did.

a chance and I

said that you married that… wumut because you never wanted to find your mate ”

her so that I can look up into

want to say it, she snaps, rolling her eyes

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“I heard she

I groan, loving her hands on me in any

me off.” Felix says. “She

upset, I do. But calling someone a where that had no idea I was married is not fair.

about that, sweetheart.” I say, stroking my hands up and down her

asks suddenly.

That you

find me?”

hear her trying not to cry.

way that it sounds, but yeah.

I show up.” he sight. “Ruining

of my hands and lean in to kiss her Eps. I didn’t love Angie. I was never going to. She may not understand that now, but hopefully one day the will. What I did by manying her while knowing I would never love her, was wrong. Now the has the chance to find someone who does. It was selfish of

then, when did you realize I was your mate?

I could check out the guys I’d be looking for and I saw you on the tape. I didn’t know you were my máte yet, but I probably should have. All I knew was that there was an extremely beautiful girl whose boyfriend shot up the club and I headed for you instead of him. But the moment I stepped onto your floor at the hospital, I scented you and as much as I always said I never wanted to find you, no one could have stopped me from walking into

I told myself I just had to see

you knew

me arrested. She frowns and I

be honest, I think I subconsciously was trying to keep you near me, Even though having you close only made me want you more.

couldnt help myself.” I pull her out of the car and into my arms, holding her against me as I dip my nose into her hair. “It’s true, never wanted my But I never wanted her because I was afraid of losing her. At the time, I thought I was bring smart by marrying Angle. I thought if I already had a wife, that if my mate ever showed up, I could just walk away. But then, I met you and… I

looking

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have chased him through the woods as something other than a human,” I admit, squirting. “I looked at

dhim, as a

constriction around my heart eases a bit. “I had a dream about you and him in the woods.

dream

woods can be a treacherous place. Anything might have

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