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

plenty of time for heroics

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

yet, and she was going

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 of

Pain.

Kitty

Goddamn it

shool

1/3

Hundred

it and it felt so good.

what you get.

much 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 him to do it, but I can

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

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

a majestic

2

too asshole. See you

pool of my own blood, with a gash the size of my forearm and as deep as my whole hand, along my torso, I play

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

I did it. That’s when I

simply took aim and emptied the chamber into his stomach. At that point,

A deep, frantic voice sounds above me, panic more than

frightened mother hen as he surveys my injuries. For a moment, he looks around like a helpless child, his chest heaving

then back again. Quinn meets my eyes, then shakes his head.

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 can’t be sure, but

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

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

blanket.