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

and my mouth waters as I swallow back a moan You’re pretty aggressive for a virgin, Tremark shakily, my eyes closing when his pinky finger traces over the fabric

so that he can press more firmly against my

shouldn’t do that,” I rasp, as my fingers begin to tingle, my claws begging to be set free.–Wetness pools

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

to stop,” I whisper, and it’s true, I don’t. “But you definitely -should.” Because any

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someone like you get so wet for someone like me?*

right. I m not wearing

head back up and

licks his lips, his gaze dark and intent on the movements of his hand between my

thought, that is what I do. Popping up on my knees a little more swiftly than I probably should have, I stretch over his lap, lock my knees around his waist, and

his bottom lip, both of his hands coming forward to

weight. It’s my turn to tease him and when his

on my

‘s nice.”

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

right away, his

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 of his

quietly as the friction between us begins to drive me toward climax. My head is thrown

door to the other room bursts open and the pair of us scramble apart like guilty teenagers. Im back in 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

we have a problem!” she exclaims and I

matter?” I ask, watching her pace back and forth in front of the bed. I feel Cane’s

that a lot of the elders don’t even know about, but Quinn promised me that he was alone and that his presence could only help matters, so I gave him

here?!” I gasp.

secretly groping my bottom as he talks to his sister.

and forth between the two of

think Id like to meet

“You mean you’re not

grins, his fingers pushing forward and wrapping around my 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

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favor to

know how generous he’s going to be with

feel generous, Delilah? What are you not telling me? Cane asks.

“He’s not exactly your biggest fan. First, you left me in Blackjack by