The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

Chapter 203

Chapter Two Hundred Three

BARTLETT

Thave news!” Doc Rhodes says coming toward me from around the nurses station

Throwing a quick glance over my shoulder at sweet Lady Rosen, I step out into the hall to confer with the doc. I hesitate to leave her for even one little minute just on the off chance that she could wake up and I could miss it. For some reason, I want to be the very first thing she sees. “What’s that?” I ask.

Doc Rhodes grants me a mirthful smile, probably noticing the way I continue to stretch my attention from him to her and back again. “You know the only reason you’re even allowed in there is because I’ve known you from the time you were born, right? It’s actual hospital policy that you either be immediate family, a guardian, or some form of medical personnel.”

I chuckle, sending him a half grin that says try and remove me.

Doc Rhodes rolls his dark brown eyes and his silver mustache twitches with delight as he wiggles his nose. “Anyway, back to the news.”

“Yes, please. Let’s hear it,” I tell him

him, thi

training my eyes on

The first thing is, her name is not Rosen, it’s Rose. According to her father, Rosen is her older brother and she is wearing his jacket.”

My head jerks in the doc’s direction. According to her father? So “They were able to get in touch with her family so soon? A clocal of gloom descends on me almost immediately. I know I should be happy for her and I am, but…….. I’m unhappy for me. The sooner they get here, the sooner 11l be pushed out.

Doc Rhodes flashes a wide grin full of sparkling ivory teeth. The policere able to make contact with her parents after they impounded the RVs. Apparently, Miss Rod Gruber and companions are all members of the same church. The official story is that she and a few members of her youth group drove out here without permissions.”

“Youth group?” I scoff in disbelief. ‘Like a church youth group

“Thats what I’m hearing.“ Dọc Khudes ways, but the doct

many

get out much. Every other moment that I get out

.

changed quite that much, Doc. She went out there saving souls, that I can

claiming that she came all the way

trying to

have something to do with the gunpowder stains on her fingers, but I’m pretty

were out here hunting Doc. Five of them were. She’s lucky I found her when

of the Kitsap Rangers found human blood smeared on the bark of Hemlock tree. In the woods.” He meets my

bet. The rest were male and-”

me off when one of the nosier nurses edges closer to us to try and

bell for, I don’t know. Maybe she has a fetish for wild animal attacks,

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eye, but he never outright said so. When I turned eighteen and bought the house next to his, I spent a lot of time trying to drink my pain away. Just like the rest of my brothers, I

for double the legs) and when I realized it wasn’t going well, I shifted back. When I was finally ablo to see clearly, I realized I wasn’t even in my house. I was in

like the rest of Port Orchard’s homegrown community,

I twirl my finger in a gesture for privacy. She just

throw the nurse

down the hall.

“The rest of her friends were male, so it

mercy.

means the authorities won’t have anyone else to blame. With this big a mess, they’re going to want to make an example out

can smuggle her

desk first.”

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