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

now than it did at

Angle, I know it hurt you to find out the way you did. But I was afraid

chance and

because you never wanted

in front of her so that I can look up into her eyes. “Her name is

her name, I just don’t want to say it, she snaps, rolling

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heard she showed up at the bar last night. Did

and I groan, loving her hands on me in any way.

off.” Felix says. “She kept

upset, I do. But calling someone a where that had no

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

asks suddenly.

That you

find me?”

I can hear her trying not to

leap to my feet and pull her toward me. “It’s not the way that it sounds, but yeah. It’s true, I never

show up.” he sight. “Ruining

both 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

then, when did you realize I was your mate?

this time more intimately, I was watching a video of the shooting so that 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

just had to see you. At least

you knew right

had me arrested. She frowns

was trying to keep you near me, Even though having you close only

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 just couldn’t. In fact, that night you told me

she pulls back, looking

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through the woods as something other than a human,” I admit, squirting. “I looked at it as solidifying your freedom. And then of course I caught him and

dhim, as a wolf?”

a dream

dream

be a treacherous place. Anything might have happened to him.”

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