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.

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

for heroics if I’d just conceded

was begging. She begged me. And what do I do? Shoot her again and

even know me yet, and she

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 the cottage,

for. That’s all she’ll remember

Pain.

Kitty

Goddamn it

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felt that. I felt it and it felt so

You get what you get. At least you got to see her again.

much shit. He wanted one of us to lose

out from his abdomen attracts my attention and 1 smile. At least he’s going

eyes are angry as he watches me, blood coloring the dark brown fur of his underside. As far as wolves go, he’s fucking ugly and looks more like a

than a majestic

2

asshole. See you

forearm and as deep as my whole hand, along my torso, I play back the last few seconds with a grin.

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 was

did it. That’s when

slipped out of my sleeve and into my hand easily, then I simply took aim and emptied the chamber into his stomach. At that point, I no longer cared that they wanted him alive, because I wanted him dear. Looks like I’ll

sounds above me, panic more than evident in his

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

his gaze going from me to Roman then back again. Quinn meets my eyes, then shakes his head.

this to my dad, will you?” I say, because I’m pretty sure there is

and I taste blood in my mouth. Frowning, 1 picture Cayle’s face when she hears the news and I want to kick myself for adding more hardship into

can’t happen!” Gryffin snarls. “I won’t let this happen!” Then Gryffiny disappears

blanket.