The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

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The Pack: Rule Number 1 – No Mates

Chapter Two Hundred Sixty–Nine

PAUL

“I’m having her brought up now,” Rainier says as the pair of us step outside his office. “Are you sure about this? You really want to be the one to handle her? I-”

“Yes!” I say interrupting for the hundredth time. “I still don’t get what it is about her that has got you so-”

But before I can finish the elevator doors open and she steps out, the scent of honeycomb even stronger now that she’s close. My fangs tingle as I gaze down at her. She’s a tiny thing. Not much taller than five feet, but goddamn is she perfect.

I can feel my fangs tingling. Shit.

Rainier steps back, almost as if he’s afraid to let her near him, the he says, “You’re all set to leave Miss Bordeaux-

“Ana!” She snaps, her eyes flaring violet for a moment.

“Miss Bordeaux, Rainier counters, narrowing his gaze defiantly.

Anastacia murmurs something under her breath, something I’m sure she didn’t intend for the pair of us to hear, but we do.

“Fucking mated wolves.”

smirks at me knowingly with a shake of his head. “Told you,” he whispers. “Something strange… in

shuffling out of the way in time

large glass doors as I approach, her eyes cast downward toward my zipper which instantly puts my dick on high alert

Fucking hell.

a balloon on the end of a hose and all I can do is clear my throat to try and get her attention raised upward. It doesn’t work. At least, not until I see her gaze widen and something

up on my junk, but I finally manage to bring my bang bang down enough to start my feet. Yes bang bang and no, it’s not a nickname that I have for

I manage to say, averting my eyes as hers go climbing up

I almost trip over my

beyond the threshold

slight wave then blowing a two handed kiss in their

Holy fuck. Really?

enough to read the ‘I told you so‘ in his gaze, then I tear

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her gaze locked on the trees and woods that surround this place, but I know there’s nothing out there right now so I shake my

the way she just said goodbye

violet heat that makes me smile, but I just step past

Anastacia.”

moment before I hear the pitter patter of her bare feet racing my

that’s right. She doesn’t even have shoes. When I gaze back at her, I can almost see the soreness of them in her eyes, despite the

I won’t really be driving her out of town anyway. We’re headed straight for my place, she just doesn’t know

to carry her and goddamn if the soft feel of her skin doesn’t send a