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

know of very many congregations that

but then again I don’t get out much. Every other moment that I get out of my practice is spent at this

.

Doc. She went out there saving souls, that I

know, they I be claiming that she came all the way out

peeting loward Rose and trying to picture

the gunpowder stains on her fingers, but I’m pretty sure that girl doesnt even say grace

out here hunting Doc. Five of them were. She’s lucky I found her when I did, I divulge, shaking the memory

of Hemlock tree. In the woods.” He meets my gaze pointedly. They re still saying it was a bon. And with

my head softly. “Just bet. The rest

of the nosier nurses edges closer to us

she has a fetish for wild animal attacks, or it could be that Doc just

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became my fucking neighbor. So grant it, he’s seen his fair share of weird shit. He knows the animals in our woods are more than meets the 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 like a

my living room thinking It might be easier to walk on four legs instead of two (I was wrong by the way – double the effort 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 Doc Rhodes house, standing right in his kitchen. He didn’t say a word, just poured me a fresh ning of coffee and walked me home. He never even

the rest of Port Orchard’s homegrown community,

smile, charming her as I twirl my finger in a

throw the

down the hall.

rest of her friends were male, so

mercy.

a shame,” Doc Rhodes remarks. “Unfortunately for Rose, that 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 of her. You know they

can smuggle her out of here. “Good thing nothing happens without crossing Rainier’s

desk first.”

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