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.”

and he smirks at me knowingly with a shake of his head. “Told you,” he whispers. “Something strange… in the neighborhood… who you gonna call… not me

barely shuffling out of the way

zipper which instantly puts

Fucking hell.

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

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 for

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

me and I swear to God I almost trip over

beyond the threshold and I have to bite down on my tongue to keep from

shooting them a slight wave then blowing

Holy fuck. Really?

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

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I wait right here for you?” she asks suddenly, her gaze locked on the trees and woods that surround this place, but I know there’s nothing out there

am unreasonably angry at the way she just said goodbye to

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

Anastacia.”

angrily, stalling by the door a moment before I hear the pitter patter of her bare feet

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 fact that she is doing her

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

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