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.

with me. I wanted her to see me as someone who could protect her. To know that just because I was human and weaker than her in some ways, that I had plenty to give. I needed to do something for her that she was never able to do for herself and…. I’ve failed.

of time for heroics if I’d just

She begged me. And what do I

didn’t even know me yet, and she was

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

me for. That’s all

Pain.

Kitty Cat

Goddamn it

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love me and’t felt that. I felt it and it felt so good.

get. At

of 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

attention and 1 smile. At least he’s going to

as he watches

than a majestic wolf.

2

See you on the other side.

in a pool of my own blood, with a gash the size of my forearm and as

eyes spied the bullets on the ground, I heard it. The snap, crackle, and pop of bones shitting into something otherworldly. By the time I was able to lift my chin, Roman was already half wolf and his fully shifted paw was flying toward my mid–section. It

I did it. That’s when

stomach. At that point, I no longer cared that they wanted him alive, because I

me,

mother hen as

yells, his gaze going from me to Roman then back

to let him know I understand, then I turn back to 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

with cold, and I taste blood in my mouth. Frowning, 1 picture Cayle’s face when she hears the news and I want to kick

happen!” Then Gryffiny disappears

blanket.