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.”

shake of his head. “Told you,” he whispers. “Something strange… in the neighborhood… who you gonna

I cough, barely shuffling out of the way in time

at the large glass doors as I approach, her eyes cast downward toward my zipper which instantly puts

Fucking hell.

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 that looks like a blush stain her cheeks –

old dudes climbing 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

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

to God I almost trip over my own

as we step beyond the threshold and

shooting them a slight wave then blowing a two handed

Holy fuck. Really?

only long enough to read the ‘I told you so‘ in his gaze, then I tear my attention from the

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the trees and woods that surround this place, but I know there’s

am unreasonably angry at the way she just said

over with a violet heat that makes me smile, but I just step past her and

Anastacia.”

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

soreness of them in her eyes, despite the fact that she is

really matter, because I won’t really be driving her out of town anyway.

goddamn if the soft feel of her skin doesn’t send a thousand sparks lighting across my flesh.