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.

safe 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

for heroics

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

yet, and she was going to go.

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

know me for. That’s all she’ll remember

Pain.

Kitty

Goddamn it

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me and’t felt that. I felt it and it felt so good. I wanted it. Wanted her.

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

shit. He wanted one 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 to Quinn to get

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

over at him, at Roman. His big orange–brown eyes are angry as he watches me, blood coloring the dark brown fur of his

hyena than a

2

too asshole. See you on

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

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 was already half wolf and his fully shifted paw

I did it. That’s when

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 get my wish, so at

above me,

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

Roman then back again. Quinn meets my eyes, then

you?” I say, because I’m pretty sure there is a special hell for people like him and my Pops.

Frowning, 1 picture Cayle’s face when she hears the news and I want to

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

blanket.