The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

Chapter Two Hundred Nineteen

CANE

Sitting down. I don’t take my gaze off of Gayle until I’ve pulled her in for a kiss. She yelps when I yank her forward and into my embrace, but she melts into me like butter.

“Really Cane?” Delilah quacks from her side of the table. “You finally get haptized and you can’t help but bring it to the breakfast table?”

Gayle smiles against my lips and I draw her chin into my hands to stare at her gorgeous fac

I don’t know what you’re talking about, D. I’m still pure, I joke, kissing Gayle once more before I release her to face the table.

Quinn stares over at us looking decidedly impressed. “That’s a pretty neat trick, Gayle. I didn’t think you had it in you.”

Gayle rolls her eyes. “Bite me, Lassie,” she snaps.

My eyebrows go sky high and a smile turns my lips as I load my plate with food.

“How many lives do you have left now, Gayle?” Quinn carries on. After being shot by your he cuts off when Delilah punches him under the table somewhere special enough to cause his eyes to water. “Fuck haby girl,” he hisses. I thought you wanted kids!”

“That was your last warning, Quinn. First you steal my phone with the most scandalous ruse possible and now you come in here and poke

my brother and my friend. I swear to God if you don’t stop, the only kids you will ever see me with will not be yours, am I clear?”

Baby-

“I will have dozens of them, Quinn. All different kinds. And I

“Oh y

yeah?” he spits. “With who? Captain Gherkin?”

Captain Gherkin?

Gayle and Delilah meet eyes over the table and laugh.

Gayle giggles, “Ted?”

Delilah nods with a snicker.

make you take care of them all

“She told you about him?” Quinn hisses, watching Cayle’s face but she doesn’t give anything away. He turns back to my sister. “So it’s true what Bartlett said. You have seen his-

“Hey!” Delilah snaps. “I am eating! Please!”

“So am I.” I mumble. “Are we talking about Matthew’s son Ted?”

Delilah nods then shudders in disgust. “Yeah. Quinn and I ran into them at a diner on the Washington border, Quinn knocked his teeth out. Literally

“I sit back for a moment, contemplating on how best to share what I’ve been dealing with. It’s hard to change the rules you’ve been living by your entire life. Even harder to include the people you want to protect in your plans. Especially when that means they may not agree with your strategy

an agreement for your hand in marriage. I let the bomb drop, ignoring the sudden silence at the table as I

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something to that effect, Quinn states. “I hope you gave him a clear refusal. Not that it matters. He’d be

the altar.

he’s not dead now, I take it?” I

me. “No.

he is missing,” I add, meeting

nods. “He

to find him. If

fit to Gayle in alarm, but she just appears confused.

the hunters went missing. Then yes. He left early

have to

there a couple of hours ago.” Quinn remarks, grabbing his phone. “I have

Gayle snaps. “Wh–what? Why?”

Gryffin?” I ask her as Quinn steps away from the table

looks at me,

eyes worried.

who wants to kill me?”

and the same,” she stai “He’s the leader

this,” I begin, “how often

like this. We had a falling out about five years ago and never really reconciled until Domonic asked Gryffin for help protecting his mate. Now, it’s like we’re all members of the same pack. We help each other. Look out for each other.

you think about it.”

wolves. Wow, I

says seriously, holding my

in the ribs, “Haha, very

smirk at her. She’s talking about an entire flip of my lifestyle. Something that should require serious thought, but for some reason, it doesn’t. “But what if it’s against my religion?” Her

smiles, her eyes

“Okay! Great! Love that you two are getting along so nicely, but can we eat so I actually have something to throw Later? The walls in this

up

and you can do the same.” He looks at Gayle. “By the way, your brother is pissed that you went after your mate against his wishes. He still wants to kill him, but I might have lied and said you

was planning to if it came to that, Gayle

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does this weird little fumbling thing that almost takes my breath away. I glance at her again and see the face of that beautiful girl

17 Or sh

“Would you like to start? Or

meet his yellow–brown gaze. I knew this was coming. I shouldn’t be so wary of it now that it has, but I know some of the things I’m

just be okay.

my eyes on my sister. “There are a few things I’ve been keeping from you,

arms over her chest. Am

I wasn’t able to make the rent last month is because

our dad’s lawyer

startles, but

“He found out more than a few things that our mother was happy to keep