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The Pack: Rule Number 1 No Mates
Chapter Two Hundred Forty–Six
BAYLE
“So let me get this straight, Gryffin says, staring at the kit in Glo’s hands. “You want me to volunteer a couple pints of my blood so that you can save het mate, but you won’t tell me why it will help and it don’t matter what my blood type is.”
“Come on Gryff! Please, I moan, exasperated. Dropping my head in my hands I begin to count backwards from twenty so that I’m not tempted to rip my hair out.
“Not exactly,” Gio says. “The blood does matter, just not the type.”
“Right,” Gryffin replies and I can feel him watching me. He sighs and rules my hair to get my attention.
When I look up at him, I find his face full of concern, his golden brown yes heavy with pain. Please don’t say no.
‘You’re sure this whatever it is that you are doing – will work?” Gryffin asks.
“No,” Gio says smoothly. “I refuse to guarantee anything. But I am pretty confident that it will.”
“It will,” I whisper, my eyes falling on Cane as I reach out to touch his beautifully bare chest. “He’s getting hotter,” I say, somewhat alarmed.
“Then we must do this now,” Gio says, gesturing for Gryffin to have a seat next to Cane.
Gryffin scoffs, “I never said I was going to-”
snap, my claws
chair next to my bed and Gio
Gryffin tells him. “My sister
a grin while I examine my razor sharp claws. “If he hadn’t
myself.”
no doubt,” Gio chuckles, amused.
while Gio sticks both men with needles and tubes. It doesn’t take very long. Gio
quietly, turning in
Gio says, gazing at his watch. “We’re timing it. Two
he needs? You’re sure?” I ask,
blood in his body, he will never make the change and the average shifter only needs two pints in him in order to
a shifter,”
removes the needle and tube, then slides his fingers lower to rest over the pulse point on Cane’s wrist. His brow
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Do what exactly,” I ask, practically shoving Gryffin out of his
sis! Gryffin snarls, only half
confused, I have no idea what I’m supposed to do and just as I open my mouth to say
to my
leap forward and place my ear to Cane’s chest, listening intently to the slow, miraculous thud of his heartbeat. I don’t know how
must mark him again. Once more,” Gio says, reminding
to him if I don’t?” I can’t help but ask.
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