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.

who could protect her. To know that just because I was human and weaker than her in some

for heroics if I’d just

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

and she was going to go.

of those stupid, arrogant, pricks – and then I s her outside of the cottage, disabling her and taking her right to choose away

all she will ever know me for. That’s all she’ll

Pain.

Kitty

Goddamn it

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said she could love me and’t felt that. I felt it and it felt so good. I wanted it.

get. At least you got to see her again.

one of us to lose our temper and attack him so he’d have an excuse for

wolf bleeding out from his abdomen attracts my attention and 1 smile. At least he’s going to go too. The son of

are angry as

a majestic

2

See you on the

as deep as my whole hand, along my torso, I play

had never seen a wolf shift before. Now that I have, I’ve got to say, it’s pretty fucking scary. The moment my 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

That’s when

into his stomach. At that point, I no longer cared that they

deep, frantic voice sounds above me, panic more than evident in his tone.

above me like some frightened mother hen as he

from me to Roman then back again. Quinn meets my eyes, then

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

with cold, and I taste blood in my mouth. Frowning, 1 picture Cayle’s face when

can’t happen!” Gryffin snarls. “I won’t let this happen!” Then Gryffiny disappears into my room, coming back with a strip of

blanket.