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.”

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

shuffling out of the way in

cast downward toward my zipper which instantly puts my dick on high alert and I’m hard as stone before I can take so much as

Fucking hell.

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

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

to say, averting my eyes as

behind me and I swear to God I almost trip over my own two feet as

shout out to her as we step beyond the threshold and I have to bite down on

shooting them a slight wave then blowing a

Holy fuck. Really?

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

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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

some reason I am unreasonably angry at the way she just said goodbye

heat that makes me smile, but I

Anastacia.”

before I hear the pitter patter of her bare feet

have shoes. When I gaze back at her, I can almost see the soreness of them in her eyes, despite the fact that she

her out of town anyway. We’re headed straight

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