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

called me a couple of nights ago. He wanted to broker an agreement for your hand in marriage. I let the bomb drop,

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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

eyes narrow at me.

is missing,” I

“He

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

fit to Gayle in alarm, but

hunters went missing. Then yes. He

have to call Gryffin.”

hours

Gayle snaps. “Wh–what?

ask her as Quinn steps away from the table

at

worried. “My brother.”

kill me?” I ask, bored.

the same,” she stai “He’s the leader of our

“how often do wolves and lions work together?”

about five years ago and never really reconciled until Domonic asked Gryffin for help protecting his mate. Now, it’s

you think about

I deadpan.

holding my gaze. “Hopefully

very funny. No.

thought, but for some reason, it doesn’t. “But what if it’s against my religion?” Her face falls slightly and I’m quick to reverse gears. “I didn’t mean it,” I tell her, gripping her hand in mine. “You are my

her

you two are getting along so nicely, but can we eat so I actually have something to throw

up

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. He still wants to kill him, but I might have lied and said you were planning to run away with him. When I said that, he

I was planning to if it came to that, Gayle

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that almost takes my breath away. I glance at her again and see

17 Or sh

Quinn says. “Would you like to start? Or should

I know some of the things I’m about to say might shatter Delilah’s heart. But then again, looking at the way she stares

just be okay.

my sister. “There are a few things I’ve been keeping from you, D.” I rethink that comment, wince, then add, “Well…

her arms over her chest. Am I going to need a can of soup

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

our dad’s lawyer

but

on, “He found out more than a few things that our mother was happy to keep secret.”

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