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.

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.

heroics if I’d just conceded

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

and she was

those stupid, arrogant, pricks – and then I

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

Pain.

sorry Kitty

Goddamn it

shool

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

what you get. At least

Did your have to kick him? I’m sure that’s when he was able to take out the bullets. That’s probably the real reason he kept talking so 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

out from his abdomen attracts my attention and 1 smile. At

him, at Roman. His big orange–brown 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

hyena than a majestic wolf.

2

you on the other side.

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

shitting into something otherworldly. By the time I was able to lift my

I did it. That’s when I

gun 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

above me, panic more than evident in his

I look up, I’m surprised 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 injuries. For a moment, he looks around

going from me to Roman then back again. Quinn meets my

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

blood in my mouth. Frowning, 1 picture Cayle’s face when she

this happen!” Then Gryffiny disappears

blanket.