The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

Chapter Two Hundred Fifty–Three

CANE

“Slow down Kitty Cat,” I chuckle softly into her ear, eliciting a shiver of pleasure from her as I do. My nose traces over the underside of her jaw and I breathe her in, reveling in the sweet heaven of her scent Diat is suddenly ten times stronger than I remember it. My dick hardens to a painful degree, pushing against the confines of my jeans and I swallow back groan, trying like hell to dial it back a notch, so I can take my time with her. “If I start touching you now, I won’t be stopped and there are a few things I want to say to you first. There are some things I want to get clear.”

“Clear?” she snaps at me, with an angry scowl, shifting her body against mine before yanking the button open on my jeans. “How’s that for clear?”

I laugh lightly, grabbing both of her wrists in one hand and then pinning them above her head easily. She struggles against my grip, bringing a smile to my face when I realize she really can’t get free. “You really changed me into a lion, huh?”

Her struggling stops, her face falling slightly. “I–I did, yes. I mean“-she huffs, blowing a few strands of her lovely golden locks from her eyes-“yeah. Are you mad?”

I burrow my nose deeper into the side of her face, dragging my lips slowly over the shell of her ear before I whisper, “Hell no.

Her body relaxes and a soft sob escapes her lips. For a moment I’m frozen, just trying to understand why she would think something like that would upset me.

“Thank God,” she whispers, thrusting her hips upward and into mine. “Now stop fucking around and kiss me.”

“Not yet baby,” I mumble, biting her earlobe when she growls and tries to free her wrists. “Just give me a second to savor my new reality for a moment. I mean, here you are, lying beneath me and not only am alive and well, but I’m actually strong enough to subdue you.”

“Haha, maybe I made a mistake then,” she grumbles.

tease her, lifting my head to look down into her glowing amber eyes. Her lips are pouting and I can’t help but smile. “Do you have any idea what it was like to watch you scream and cry over my body?” Losing my grin as that memory surges forward, I’m suddenly transported back to that moment.

whispers sadly. “You remember?”

a moment. Please.” I don’t see her nod, but I can feel her acceptance in the relaxation of her body, so I continue, “You weren’t the only one that was scared, baby. I was too.” My eyes open and I see that hers are filled with fresh tears. My words are slightly garbled when I speak next, because try as I might, I can’t keep the pain out of my voice. “I saw you run into the room and drop down in front of me. I reached for you as you sunk your teeth into my flesh. I closed my arms around you, but you“-I shake my head, breathing so that I don’t break down and cry-“you couldn’t feel me. You couldn’t hear me. I was so, so, scared that whatever you were doing wasn’t going to work, and when it didn’t…and you passed out from the effort – I finally realized that I had…” I clench my jaw, fighting for control over that moment and reminding myself that that moment is gone. “That I had died,” I say,

hugged me in the car. In the jeep.

Over and over again. You were all I could see,” I whisper harshly. “Everything else was background noise. I couldn’t even really see my sister. I could sense her presence and hear her voice. See her coloring. But you – you were the only thing that was vibrant and clear. You cast everything else away in shadow. When you were in the jeep crying silently, I could feel you letting go of me. It…hurt,” I admit, gritting my teeth when she shakes her head and cries a little harder. “I wanted so badly for everything you were saying to be true. I

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your arms and I could smell your scent. That’s why I refused what everyone else kept trying to tell me. I felt you in the back of that jeep and I just knew you would

frustrated growl, I wipe the moisture from my eyes. “Yes,” I choke out. “I jumped inside of you. That was the last thing I remember, before waking up here. The very last thing. Everything else

that too,” she coos softly. “Thank

that we know that we’re spiritually

say,” I protest weakly, salivating as her gorgeous, butter gold mounds are revealed. “Holy

grinning at me as she gropes her bosom and a feral growl

I feel her dainty hands drag down my zipper and my achie cock bounces free. “Shit. I know all about you lion shifters and how you sometimes have more than one mate,” I snap. Her hands fre the heat of them filtering through the thin fabric of my boxers easily and causing me to groan. “I just need you to know – I won’t be having any of that. You are mine and I won’t share you with any other male. I don’t give a fuck if it’s in your nature or not. I’ll

is. “Good. I’ve never liked the type of relationships that come with numerous mates. But just so you know, I want the same thing from you. Any bitch

her halfway under my body and prop myself up so that I can swirl my tongue over one deliciously sharpened nipple. “According to you I’m a lion

my boxers and stopping my words. “Don’t even say it. Not even

I choke out, sliding lower before she even realizes what I intend to do. I rip her leggings down and off of her, tossing them somewhere behind my head. “I don’t want to waste any more breath. I never

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