The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

Chapter Two Hundred Twenty–Six

CANE

There’s this moment that passes when you’re about to die. An instant of complete clarity. It is almost as if there is a layer of fog lifted

the colors seem brighter. Detalls are more acute and so are intentions. In fact, right then, when you realize whe

you know there is any way around it, you move toward it without fear, For that half a second, time stretches, the

acceptance lakes over. You brain says, Chi, so das in it then. This is low? And, you

Drun it

to get the bullets. Or Griffin.

1 knew better, I never should have taken my eyes off of him. I should have sent Quinn to get

There was never any y way they were going to watch over him the way I would, because they are not human. They can heal

1, however, cannot,

Gayle.

I should have listened to her when she asked me to go with them. I should have said, “Fuck this asshole. Let him come for me and the spent as much time as I could noticing every single one of Gayle’s smiles in the way that she apparently noticed mine.

Now… I’ll never know them. Those precious couple of hours with her in roy arms is all i will ever get.

dry didn’t 1997

I mean… why

Why was I so obsessed with playing the hero?

But I know what the answer is. Of course I do.

than her in some ways,

might have been plenty of time for heroics if I’d just conceded to her

not her request… she was begging. She begged me. And what do I do? Shoot her again and send

me yet, and

her very own forest, like a worthless, selfish hastard just to be one of those stupid, arrogant, pricks – and then I s her outside of

ever know me for.

Pain.

sorry Kitty

Goddamn it

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felt it and it felt

it off. Cane. You get what you get. At

us to lose our temper and attack him so he’d have an excuse for moving. I don’t know what it is he said to Quinn to get him to do it, but

attracts my attention and 1 smile. At least he’s going to go too. The

His big orange–brown eyes are angry as he watches me, blood coloring the

than a majestic

2

See you on the other side.

of my forearm and as deep as my

the time I was able to lift my chin, Roman was already half wolf and his fully shifted

it. That’s when I shot

aim and emptied the chamber into his stomach. At that point, I no longer cared that they wanted him alive, because I wanted him

frantic voice sounds above me, panic more than

it’s Gryffin, and not Quinn, that is carrying on up above me like some frightened mother hen as he surveys my injuries. For a

then back again. Quinn

Rogan’s wild, feral glare and give him the middle finger. “Give this to my dad, will you?” I say, because I’m pretty sure there is a special hell for people like him and my Pops. “I can’t be sure, but I’m betting you and I are headed different places you sick–cough, cough–Tuck.”

mouth. Frowning, 1 picture Cayle’s face when she

this happen!” Then Gryffiny disappears into my room, coming back with a

blanket.