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.

reasons

blush blossoming across his cheeks as he chokes on

since that day you grabbed her by the

says, finally regaining control of himself.

it?” I can’t help but ask him, ignoring that his eyes go dark for a

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

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Hundred Fifty–Nine

a virgin,” I call out to Tae, barely glancing back at my father who is muldenly capriated by the for cafes in his glass.

hiding something. I just

this island? Cane’s voice chatters the ingat laughter coming festo the nest of us

my case.

there? Delilah glares

ignores her, fixing his gaze on me

would need a

challenges, his blue eyes flashing so gold I’m momentarily stamped for an answer, “Roman’s death is as much mine as it is Gayle’s. I deserve to be there when

he hardly looks her way.

have to sun. I’m going to get there, Cate announces to the room. “With help

DOMONIC

just about to step back inside the basement when my phone rings

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

her way here. I just know it.

know the answer to that, she answers and my hackles

She needed to know that we weren’t monsters. She did! “Who called you? Emily?” It

practically hear the wheels in Draven’s mind turning. Nobody called me Domonic. Why? What have you

Nobody called her?

want you here. I want you safe. Why are

says simply and my eyes go straight for Gryffin who is standing right behind

“So he’s

and well,” she

shift, Gryffin reminds me with a dominant jerk of his chin. “Until he does he’ll feel like a caged animal. It’s good that they’re coming here.

basement.

phone, stepping away from the basement door and faxing my eyes on the ocean