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.

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,

she whispers

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

the jeep. Didn’t you?” she says in

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 wanted you to bring me back to you, so when I could sense that you were starting to accept my death, I reached for you and begged you will all my might not to give up on me. But you couldn’t hear me and you couldn’t feel me

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I gin to shake my head and she nods vehemently. “Yes Cane. I felt you. Like a warmth electrical current. I felt 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

“I jumped inside of you. That was the last thing I remember, before waking up here. The

that too,” she

down to the hem of her shirt. “Now that we know that we’re

mounds are revealed. “Holy fuck,” I whisper, my balls tightening as the desire to fall into her

she gropes her bosom and a feral growl erupts

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 kill whoever you bring into our relationship. I

my surprise, she seems pleased by my words, smiling up at me like the fucking goddess she 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 that you meet from here on out that you – may or may not find yourself drawn too is going to

relaxing my hold on her as I maneuver her halfway under my body and prop myself up so that I can swirl my tongue over one deliciously sharpened nipple.

shift out, shredding my boxers and stopping my words. “Don’t

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 want to find myself in the position I

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