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.”

clash with mine and he smirks at me knowingly with a shake of his head. “Told you,”

of the

puts my dick on high alert and I’m hard as stone before I can take so much as another

Fucking hell.

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 – which actually makes the problem worse. Suddenly I’m carrying what feels like dumbbells attached to my

homie, walk. It takes a moment. Along with a vision or two of naked old dudes climbing up on my junk, but I

all I manage to say, averting my

I swear to God I almost trip

beyond the threshold and

then blowing a

Holy fuck. Really?

‘I told you so‘ in his gaze, then I tear my attention from the station completely and onto the path between me and

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trees and woods that surround this place, but I know there’s nothing out there right now so

the way she just said goodbye to the entire damned precinct. “No. I’m not far.”

glazing over with a violet heat that makes me smile, but I just step

Anastacia.”

a moment before I

When I gaze back at her, I can almost see the soreness of them in

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

her into my arms to carry her and goddamn if the soft feel of