The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

Chapter 219

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

ago. He wanted to broker an agreement for your hand in marriage. I let the bomb drop, ignoring the sudden silence at the table as I dug into my

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states. “I hope you gave him a clear refusal. Not that it matters. He’d be dead

the altar.

not dead now, I take

eyes narrow at me.

is missing,” I add, meeting his gaze,

“He

was called in to find him. If Ted’s there somewhere, he

alarm, but she just

where the hunters went missing. Then yes. He left early this morning. Around three or four

have to

hours ago.”

Gayle snaps.

Quinn steps away from the table to make his call.

at

eyes worried. “My

kill me?” I ask, bored.

and the same,” she stai

often do wolves and lions work

never really reconciled until Domonic asked Gryffin for help protecting his mate. Now, it’s like we’re all members of

you think

pack of lions and wolves. Wow, I deadpan. “Any others? Flamingos maybe? Or

says seriously, holding my gaze. “Hopefully one of them

elbows me in the ribs, “Haha, very funny. No. Just a

it doesn’t. “But what if it’s against my religion?” Her face falls slightly and I’m quick to

her eyes

have something to throw Later? The walls in this place are way too thin and I

up

information. I’ll tell you what you don’t know 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.

to if it came

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her again and see the face of that beautiful girl that I shot in the woods. I can’t possibly deserve her.

17 Or sh

Quinn says. “Would you like

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 about to say might shatter Delilah’s heart. But then again, looking at the way

just be okay.

keeping from you, D.” I rethink that comment, wince,

her arms over her chest. Am I going to need a

shrug, ignoring the threat, “First thing is, the reason I wasn’t able to make the rent last month is because

into our

but says nothing..

a few things

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