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

in marriage. I let the

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him a clear refusal. Not that

the altar.

I take

eyes narrow at me. “No.

is missing,” I add, meeting

“He is.”

find him.

Gayle in alarm, but she

yes. He left early this morning. Around three or

“I have to call

him there a couple of hours ago.” Quinn

snaps. “Wh–what? Why?”

ask her as Quinn steps away from the table to make his call.

at

worried. “My

to kill me?” I ask,

the same,” she stai

I begin, “how often do wolves and

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

you think about it.”

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

my gaze.

ribs, “Haha, very funny. No. Just a

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 face falls slightly and I’m quick to

smiles, her

something to throw Later? The walls in

up

way, your brother is pissed that you went after your mate against his wishes. He still wants to kill him, but I might have

lie. I was planning to if it came to that, Gayle

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again and see the face of that beautiful girl that I shot in the woods.

17 Or sh

says. “Would you like to

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

just be okay.

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

over her chest. Am I going

wasn’t able to make the rent last month is because I hired a private investigator

into our dad’s

startles, but says

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

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