The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

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The Pack: Rule Number 1 – No Mates

Chapter Two Hundred sixty–four

PAUL

I have to head back to the mainland, Rainier attiness at thy back how to hang (kendy and the past twenty minutes.

Nice to see Bartlett with someone special. Out of all of us, I often wonder wher way be sent hus me qe ditmetist something is going on here. Something crazy

Dom thinks you should come back with res and be the one to check the Chathers doing of the have?

“What?” I snap, my attention ripping away from the window. “Why do or even for to g

“Someone was found in the woods naked and the authorities believed that it migh, a gart chart sy wo she has been placed in lock up and under arrest, tespite that after they compared the female to a picture

not Rose.

And what the fuck am I supposed to do about that?”

Check on the bar. Rainier grins and before taking another look at his phone

“Fine,” I snarl. “But I’m coming back here tonight.

“As am 1,” Rainier chuckles. “So no worries, then

“No worries…” I agree as I step away from the window.

ROSE

I latch onto Bartlett with a death grip and his arms close around me so tightly that I’m momentarily fighting a smile. His sent me and for a second I revel in it, in the safety and security it suddenly represents. Could it be true? This mate thing? Could he really we me so desperately?

into my head. Just say what it is you have to say

and watch them sparkle for a moment while I take it all in. This new feeling of having someone that wants t protect me so fiercely. Someone who refuses to leave me to

into his chest and feeling the

okay, princess. I’ve already told you no one’s going to hurt you here. They wouldn’t dare, he whispers back, pressing his lips onto the

right, you know?” the female’s voice sounds much closer than before. And besides… you’re

her- this girl that

she’s close and when I look directly at her I’m surprised to find her smiling

spits, her lips quivering like she feels stupid just saying the words. “I almost killed you, but try and understand the trails off, her golden eyes dropping for a moment as she studies the ground. “Roman killed my mother and we’ve been looking for his

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words but finding them somewhat

you didn’t know any better at the time. Neither did my mate. I

your mate? I can’t

force with that question, her lips turning up in a smirk. “Cane. He’s my mate.

monster too.”

“He’s a lion shifters mate?

a low growl emits from his chest. I swat his chest

power, doesn’t he? Even as a human

human he did? What does she mean…did?

ANASTACIA

the jail, healing and returning from the haze

wolves. And I mean, I smell them everywhere, but yet, there aren’t any in sight.

there must be, you see, because I am never wrong.

first born girl – was. My sister is the same as my mother was. She possesses that clarity of old. The knowledge of what is what and who is who, but she can’t conjure

that’s our traditional name, but I prefer to be called Gifted.

there. I could have them releasing me right now if I truly wanted them to, but…

They’re afraid.

him into taking me in long enough to come up