The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

Chapter Two Hundred

you might be his girlfriend, or lover, or even his wife.” She frowns, opel

“Okay, gress. But, okay. Why do you even care who I am to him?”

After a quick glance around, she turns back to me, her eyes bright with he before she tells me, I think I already know. That night he shot me, meets my eyes woefully. “He’s my mate,” she chokes out, one tear traili

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The Pack: Rule Number 1 – No Mates

Chapter Two Hundred One

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“What do you mean they are going to kill him? Who is? Quin?”

Gayle growls in frustration, “Yes! Him! His pack! My brother! My pride They’re going to go after him!”

My heart aches. A sharp stabbing pain teating into it at her words. I shake my head. “No, Quinn won’t let them. He won’t! You’re wrong about that!

She rolls her eyes. “If you think so, that’s on you. But Domande is the Alpha, not Quinn and what Domonie says gres. Trust me.”

I take a deep breath, refusing to believe that Quinn would do that to me. Sure, I don’t know him that well, but… I believed him when he said he cared about me. I believed him when he said I was his mate. He judet huurt my brother… Right? But if any of what she’s saying true, I need to wam my brother. “If we do figure out where he is, how the we going to get there? Task. “I can’t shift and I’m no Mowgli, i WILL NOT ride on your back like in the Jungle Book.”

She grins, “Qur jeep is parked in Quinn’s driveway. We’ll take it.”

My eyes widened. “That’s yours?”

She shrugs. “For the most part. Quinn borrowed it to bring you here. The keys will still be inside of it because one of us was supposed to

me and pick it up. We just hadn’t gotten around to it yet. So don’t worry about that part. Let’s just get out of here before it’s too latest,

“Okay,” I say with a nod, racking my brain for what I need to do before we leave. “Do you have any money? I do but it’s locked in Quinn’s car. And my phone-” that’s when I cut off.

“What?” Gay

Gayle asks, noting the way I freeze mid–sentence, “What’s wrong?”

“M–my phone!” I confide softly. “I have to bring it and I don’t know where it is.” Where is my phone?

“Okay, well where did you have it last?” she asks, gazing past me into the house.

My eyes narrow as I recall the last time I had it. It was just before Quinn ambushed me out here on the patio. Did he take it from me? Did I drop it? My eyes go everywhere, scanning the patio for it, but finding nothing. I had dropped it, I would have heard it fall I’m sure of it. “1 had it out here right before… I trail off as my cheeks heat. “Maybe Quinn put it with my clothes.”

“Why would Quinn have it?” she asks, alarmed.

1 shake my head. “He didn’t, I had it. I had just hung up with Cane, and then Quinn and his friend were standing behind me. He introduced me to his friend Domonic and then walked him out. I still had my phone… but then…”

Her

fill with worry. “Who’s Cane,

a fool as I remember how easily Quinn crept up behind me

go wide. “Did they know you’d

sadly. “Yes,”

curses. “He took it. He took it to track him, Some of the pack

on the police force. They have all kinds

duped. Tell me something, Gayle, When a wolf shifter finds his mate, how

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he know? What does he do with

on wolf shifters, but far as I know, they usually scent her first. They’re drawn to it. As far as I know, it’s pretty obvious on both sides. Especially after

I ask

at the base of your throat. We do the same

knew I wo the best way to get to Cane and tricked me into believing we were mates just to get me to

is just understand wolves don’t usually lie about who their mate is Then she gasps, clamming up a bit.

I push, curious.

mean. It’s

nothing!” I snap. “I deserve

mate once. To get his real mate to leave town. But

fill my vision. “You don’t think they might have lied to me to get to

don’t know what I expect her to say, she’s staring past me at nothing. Honestly? I don’t know. But I do know the longer we stay here the less likely we will be to make it out of here.”

But I do

a phone

confidence, “There’s always a burner in the jeep for emergencies. You know

nod. “Of course.

all we really need,” she states.

a note for Charlie,” I say with sad resignation

come back this way. We can climb these stairs to the ground floor patio, then the deck winds out to

and race back into the house, heading straight for Quinn’s bathroom hamper. I need to make sure Quinn really took my phone, before I start jumping to conclusions. I lift the lid and find my clothes from earlier on the very top, but when I rifle through them I don’t find my phone. The same thing happens when I search the rest of his bedroom, Shit I creep upstairs and check the kitchen, the living room, the dining room, the fridge. That’s where I find Quinn’s note telling me to stay here because he went to the Moonlight Lounge on

Moonlight Lounge? Isn’t that the bar he found me outside of

pen and the pad of sticky notes, I scribble out

I’d tell you to call me but I can’t

gives him an idea of where I’m going, but it’s clear that I intend to save my brother

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phone then the bastard only has himself to blame. And if he led

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the woods. I’m usually alone out here at this cottage and this is the only place I ever allow myself to shift. Now that I have Cane with me, I will have to limit myself to a couple times a week and only in the middle of the night. Potentially, that might cause problems for in might make my temper harder to control, but for now it can’t be helped. I’ll simply

into the worms cottage to see my phone lighting

Something has to have happened. Something bad. He never calls me when I’m training unless it’s

me,” I say

you for an hour!” Matthew’s panicked voice fills my ears.

on silent, in the kitchen. I only got up to get some water. What’s going on? Is

our campers.” Matthew releases a sigh and my ears pick up another conversation going on in

a couple of others nearby, which means they are all gathered at the compound. He’s arguing with someone. He says, “Rose

Rosen with his sister Rase. I knew it.

reply, settling in my chair and listening to the other Elders talk about an unsanctioned hunt gone wrong. Oh fuck. Dawn kids, 1 swear.. “Let me guess,” I start, knowing I can t rightly admit that I can hear the conversation going on in the

hunt.”

Rose was among

them. She was airlifted to the hospital,

hunt? “She was caught?” My hackles go up.