The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

Chapter Two Hundred Fifty–Nine

DRAVEN

“So let me get this straight, I begin, my eyes lingering on my father for a longer moment than any of the others. “They took him too?”

My father nods, stepping forward with a guilty bow. “Domonic is the Alpha of your pack, little one. It was his decision to make and rightly

50. 50.

I’m getting a little tired of all this secrecy,” I snap, my attention snagging on the newborn cat in the corner. “And what the fuck is his problem? He’s been pacing like that for hours.”

“He needs to shift,” Goose says calmly. “At least, that’s what I’m getting from him.”

“I know what I need, Cane grumbles. “I need Roman. I want to punish him.”

“Well Roman isn’t here Dimwit, Delilah chortles, her newly healed mark catching my eye.

“You’re marked,” I whisper happily, smiling back at her when her eyes shoot my way.

“I am. Someone couldn’t wait any longer,” Delilah teases and Quinn shrugs my way.

“So what now, then?” Taedora asks from her corner of the room where she is making a few margaritas for those who are not pregnant.

“With the hunters still unaccounted for,” Cane hisses, “the Elder Few will be sending their enforcers and with those Rangers still scouting the woods, I don’t think any of you should shift.”

“Any of you? Gayle taunts. “You are a shifter now too, baby. There isn’t any you.”

Cane grins, then races toward her with a blur of speed that has the rest of us gazing toward my father in question.

Gio shrugs. He is twice born and apparently very dominant. I have never met one that has been made a shifter before so I don’t know the extent of their power.”

“So what you mean to say,” Goose begins, “is that he might be stronger than any one of us.”

Gio smiles in his all knowing way and I can’t help but snicker. “Perhaps.”

“That’s…just not fair, Goose grumbles. “You better make me a drink too, Tae.”

“He also was given the blood of a Lion King – basically an Alpha of your kind…so there is that,” Gio adds with a sardonic smile.

giving me any more reasons

drink, a dark blush blossoming

ever since that day you grabbed her by the throat and stopped

control of himself. “I see.”

ask him, ignoring that his

softly, in a voice meant only for me. Then he meets my

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then ing the way they tam to follow my steps. Make mine a virgin,” I call out to Tae, barely glancing back at my father who

something. I just know it. But

voice chatters the ingat laughter coming festo

in my case.

would we go there? Delilah glares at her brother.

her, fixing his

would need a boat,

I’m momentarily stamped for an answer, “Roman’s death is as much mine as it is Gayle’s. I deserve to be there

Delilah warns, but he hardly looks her

if I have

DOMONIC

back inside the basement when my phone rings with Draven

gorgeous. I wish I could say I was just thinking about you but–feat off when the telltale sound of a boats engine filters through

her way here. I just know

to that, she answers and my hackles immediately

weren’t monsters. She did! “Who called you? Emily?” It

I can practically hear the wheels in Draven’s

Nobody called her?

want you here. I want you safe. Why are you on

simply and my eyes go straight for Gryffin who is

“So he’s

well,” she says softly.

chin. “Until he does he’ll feel like a caged animal. It’s good that they’re coming here. A little more icing on the cake

basement.

from the