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.

margarita. “You shouldn’t be giving me any more reasons to adore you than I already have. You’re already

blush blossoming across his cheeks as he chokes on the compliment.

day you grabbed her by the throat and

finally regaining control of

ignoring that his eyes go dark for a moment as he

voice meant only for me. Then he meets my gaze with a serious one of his own. “As are you.”

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steps. Make mine a virgin,” I call out to Tae, barely glancing back at

something. I just know

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

my case.

we go there? Delilah glares at her

ignores her, fixing his gaze on me instead.

would need a boat,

what?” Cane challenges, his blue eyes flashing so gold I’m momentarily stamped for an answer, “Roman’s death is

Delilah warns, but he

don’t care if I have to go alone. Or if I have to sun. I’m going to get there, Cate announces to

DOMONIC

inside the basement when my phone rings with Draven

thinking about you but–feat off when the telltale sound of a boats engine filters through the line. “Where

here.

that, she answers and my hackles immediately go up.

to know that we weren’t monsters. She did!

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

Nobody called her?

want you safe. Why are you on your

says simply and my eyes go straight

“So he’s

well,” she says softly.

a caged animal. It’s good that they’re coming here. A

basement.

from the basement door and