The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

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QUINN

Stars felt it. She had to. The look in her eyes says she did, but she shakes her head no.

What? Gould I be wrong about this? All the signs my father over told about are there. At least on my end. Her irresistible scent is so string it Ulstratens my control even now. Just looking at her exposed shoulders is making me want to sink my teeth in. In fact my fangs have been tingling since 1 elled her arousal in the Jeep. Her pussy w practically weeping for me and the scent of it was so strong nearly tumbled us by almost steering off the road.

“No? I ask in disbelief. “You’re telling me you felt nothing?”

“I felt your uninvited finger dragging across my shoulder, yes.” She sighs, looking away, “But that’s all.” She crosses her arms over her stomach, drawing my eyes down to her hips once again.

God her hips are incredible. They punch out on each side in a perfect curve from her tiny waist and my hands are aching to grab onto

“So, nothing else then? No… tingles, or heat, just… past a finger drawing over your flesh and creeping you out? is that what you’re saying?”

She hesitates for a moment, then nods, but the dilating of her pupils when she answers tells me she’re remembering what it felt like and that she is a dar. But why lie to me about something like that? What’s the deal? She can t think I’m ugly, can she? Because, I’m not. Thet

Then it occurs to me. She was staying wo | two guys in Dobson’s cabin. Two! Fuck. She might just be pretending she doesn’t feel anything so she can lie faithful to her kart.

But she’s my mate! She has to be. I sigh heavily, disappearing into my doset to change, but leaving the door open so that I can watch her

Shit? Lyor since Domonic met Draven, I’ve been hoping to find mine. When we decided on our rules five years ago, I was the only one who wasn’t fully on bound with the No Mates rule. Yes, I missed my mother Eike everyone else did, and yes, it was a tragic loss, Our fathers were unprepared for such an attack, but we weren’t. Back then, the only thing I imagined might heal me from the pain of losing my mother was finding my mate.

Maybe I am wrong about her. Ive been wrong before. When I hest saw Emily, I thought maybe she was mine. She’s beautiful and the desire. for her struck me right away, but there was no delicious scent, there were no sparks. I even tried to kiss her when we were cooking together in the packhouse, Nothing, no electricity whatsoever. Then the next morning, Koda attacked me in the living room and it became clear to me whom Emily belonged to.

1 was insanely jealous of the two of them, Domonic and Koda. Not because of the women, but because I wanted my mate.

Before we shifted last night, Rainier confessed he found his mute too and even marked her already. So something was happening around here. Something powerful had to be drawing our mates forward, firull.

As I finish getting dressed, I gaze at Delilah. Her back is to me as she steps out onto the patio to stare out at the sea. Her fiery hair billows around her like flames in the breeze, the soft golden touches of it giving life to the illusion

Could it be that I’m just insanely attracted to her? Could this just be wishful thinking?

No. It can’t be. My reaction to her was too different. Too… singular,

Fuck: Het scarf. I dropped it in the creek when I went to rescue her. The knowledge saddens me a bit and I can’t rightly explain why.

As I step out of my closet, dressed in jeans and a muscle shirt, I hear her phone ring and hang back as she answers it. Quieting my

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I listen in

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up the phone and dropping her face into her hands.

Headquarters?

Elder Roman?

between disappointment and trepidation, Everything I just heard, I absolutely tune to report i brother and this Charle are probably the ones who shot Gayle. And from the sound of things, they watched her

her boyfriend.

shot

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have to know if she’s any mate before I make any decisions on what to do fuck it, I’m just going to go for it, and when I reach her leaning against the railing I reach out and take her hips in my hands just

I pull her back against me. I instantly hard, but I don’t want to scate her, so I refrain from grinding myself into her ass the way I want to. It’s difficult. She’s breathing heavily as I dip my face into her hair and trace the shell of he war with my nose. I can feel her trembling and smell her arousal as it pools between her legs.

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sparks across

at her flesh with

leaning her head back against my chest. She’s fucking tiny, I’m dying

why she decided on that name for me. “Lilac,” I say tauntingly, nipping at her shoulder with

boyfriend?

the front of her to stroke up and down her

groaning with pleasure as a bolt of electric charge rides over me and

either? I whisper, pulling her in tighter as my body goes