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.

father the first margarita. “You shouldn’t be giving me any more reasons to adore you

Gio spits out his drink, a dark blush blossoming across his cheeks as he chokes

you grabbed her by the throat and stopped her

regaining control of

ignoring that his eyes go dark

only for me. Then

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Two Hundred Fifty–Nine

and 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 is muldenly capriated by the for cafes in

I just know it. But

the ingat laughter coming

my case.

Delilah glares at

his gaze on

need a

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

he hardly

I have to go alone. Or if I have to

DOMONIC

when my phone rings with Draven on the

say I was just thinking about you but–feat off when the telltale sound of

on her way here. I just

the answer to that, she answers and my hackles immediately

explain. The way I treated Bartlett’s girl wasn’t unfair it was justified. She needed to know that we weren’t monsters. She did! “Who called you? Emily?” It had to be Emily,

for a moment and I can practically hear the wheels in Draven’s mind

Nobody called her?

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

go straight for Gryffin who

“So he’s

she says softly.

feel like a caged animal. It’s good that they’re coming here. A little more icing on the cake of revenge I plan to feed

basement.

the phone, stepping away from the basement door