The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

Chapter Two Hundred Sixteen

GAYLE

No. You shot at her as she ran! You shot at me! I want to scream at him, but I don’t.

You let her go? No. You shot at her as

He says, “I was still on the ground, frozen in shock, watching her retreat when I heard Charlie start shooting at her back.”

Oh…

lis lip curls upward in disgust. “It made me so angry that he would do such a thing after seeing her. Seeing how beautiful she was.”

“Beautiful?” I can’t help it, I am a fool and I blush.

“I wanted to hurt him. Badly. So, I pretended everything was fine and I took him with me where I needed to go, but when the time came and I was presented with the opportunity to, I did. I hurt him.” He shakes his head at himself. “I’m good at that. Pretending. I’ve been doing it for a long time.”

I’m panting by now, so completely shocked by his admission that I almost don’t know what to do. I ask, “Is that what you’re doing here? At this place? Pretending?”

He finally looks at me and whispers, “Yes.”

“But why? What’s the point?”

His brow wrinkles, his attention drifting toward his hand on my leg once more. “It’s complicated. I need something that only Roman can give me. So I have to keep pretending. At least… for now.”

“Does your sister know that?” I ask.

“No,” he says absently. “It’s better if she doesn’t. It’s safer that way.”

d caress my inner thigh. “Are you My breath hitches again as his hand dives deeper between my legs to squeeze and caress my

to ask. “With me?”

you pretending now?” I hop

“Does it look like it?” he asks, flexing his muscles so the front of his gym shorts twitch and my eyes are drawn to the pulsating hardness

between his legs.

it you’re a virgin, I coo softly, my hungry gaze locked on his bulge.

“Your sister says

ux that

“My sister has a big damn mouth. She tells

I swallow back a moan You’re pretty aggressive for a virgin, Tremark shakily, my eyes closing when his pinky finger traces

his hand so that he can press more firmly against

wanting to purr so badly. “You probably shouldn’t do that,” I rasp, as my fingers begin to tingle, my claws begging to be set

like it?” he asks teasingly, stroking again and again. Up and down,

I don’t. “But you definitely -should.” Because any

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he hisses in amazement? “How can someone like you get so

right. I m not wearing panties.

mean?” I whisper, bringing my head back up and opening my eyes to study him. “Someone like me?”

between my legs. “I want inside,” he says,

for me to come any closer without sitting on his lap, so after about thirty seconds of careful thought, that is what I do. Popping up on my knees a little more swiftly than I

lip, both of his hands coming forward to clamp themselves around my

but not giving him all of my weight. It’s my turn to tease him and when his dick. jumps

on my legs.

‘s nice.”

him gently, placing my hands on lightly tanned skin of his well defined abs. The skin to skin contact causes heat

answering right away,

upward to grip the back of my ass. His eyes are half–lidded when they find mine and he slams me down on his lap. He groans deep in his throat as he guides my hips into a punishing rhythm, grinding my core back and forth. over the top

climax. My head is thrown back and my eyes are closed, I’ve given up control

the position I was in before I straddled him, but with my knees bent to the side instead of under me, Cane drags a pillow down from the top of the bed to cover the space between us as well as the bulge in front of his shorts. He somehow makes it look so natural that by the time Delilah is

we have a problem!” she exclaims and

front of the bed. I feel Cane’s hand slide under my

is like some big hush hush that a lot of the elders don’t even know about, but Quinn promised me that he was alone and that his

here?!”

enough, Cane continues to look almost bored, secretly groping my bottom as he talks to his sister.

back and forth between the

think Id like

Delilah says, confused. “You mean you’re not

core fijom underneath. I shoot him a warping look, but he ignores me. “Roman’s not here, D. I mean, he can’t stay but you already said you arent either, so what is there to be mad about? Besides, I

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have a favor to ask of

“I don’t know how generous

What are you not telling me? Cane asks.

winces, chewing her lip. “He’s not exactly your biggest fan. First, you left me in Blackjack by myself