The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

Chapter One Hundred-Forty-Eight

DRAVEN

The daughter of on Alpha? An Alpha Wolf Shifter? Me? | shake my head, the carefully structured just a tiny bit

more than before. Do you know what?” 1

the mail. | hop out of the car to stand toe to toe with the so called Alpha Wolf that on

His golden eyes twinkle, filling with tears, and | force myself not to see them. Force myself. myself not to care

that all the answers to all the questions that | ever had while growing

let my love Bost zeey

What my little darling? Tell me, he whispers, his chest shuddering as tear streaks down his cheek,

danding right in fecer of me

| shake my head at him, wagging my finger in warning. “You see, the thing is, | know a little apparently don’t.

And while | cant, on God's good Earth, fathom why you would lie toabout being a about them, you see - just

a tiny little thing really - but yet it is significant enough forto kesa that you can’t be selling the don’t know

what you planned to gain fromwith your lies, but I've got somewhere to be my feet forward.

“Your n

mate and his pack have force shifted,” he states matter-of-factly, and 1 spin back around. He shrugs his

shoulders, his growing ple eyes shimmering with an almost liquid quality as they absorb the moons silver light.

They've done so every night

the tthey hit puberty.”

My eyebrows drop into a straight line, my lips opening and closing like the lips of a dying fish on the pier. | am

working to hide my interest, but | hear Taedora snort in the Hummer and | send her a warning glare over my

shoulder

continues, “Actually, most American Wolf Shifters experience the forced shift, but not all. Sare

descendants of de Your mate and his pack... they are descended from an entirely different Bloodline than you

and 1. my darling. The West Coast of the United States is much younger than the East. There weren't nearly as

many immigrants that settled on this side during the Great Migration. Your mate's family is more than likely

Nordic, or Scandinavian, or perhaps even German Centuries ago, a large number of the traveled to Canada and

what is now Alaska. It is said that they spent so much tin darkness, that their blood began to reject the light

They evolved into beings that craved the lunar rays of the moon so much, that sunlight bechazardous for

them. With each generation, they migrated a little farther south. Out of the darkness and into the sun. But

wolves of this bloodline are forced to shift v the full power of the moon us upon them, because their blood craves

balance. One night as a pure wolf, and the rest spent as a wolf

shifter.”

“That's crazy,” | hear Taedora comment, and that is when | notice that she has climbed out of the car to listen to

my - no, no-to Gia the sway that | seem to be.

“What you have to try and understand is that long ago, shihers spent more tas wolves than they did as

humans. Now, it is complete opposite, pointed out.

“So, what you're saying, is that there are swolves that don’t force shift. Slike you?” | ask carefully,

crossing my arms and stepping back toward the open car door. Something about this new knowledge is firing

around in my brain. My neurons are zigrigging like lightning bolts into uncharted brain territory. “I don’t know,

Glo,” | say coldly. “I mean, to be honest, | do even know for sure that you my father. | know you re on my birth

certificate. | know at one tI loved you so much that 1- Casping, | clamp my eyes shut and my trap shut too.

The searing pain of the past ambushingwith brute force. Riding up ondannounced, unwelcomed, and

completely unexpected. Suddenly, | was biting down so hard to simply keep my lips closed, that the roof of my

mouth began to hurt. A wailing began to tremble and vibrate behind my lips, but | refused to set it free, | tried to

swallow it, but it just would not budge! And Tardora reached out a hand to squeeze mine, she ruined everything!

| fell against her, her arms closing aroundand tears poured from my eyes. A child's scream tore from my lips

as | wailed Holy Hell into her shoulder. | screamed, and | screamed, only settling down when | remembered the

baby. Taking a few steadying breaths, | nodded for Tae to get into the Hummer, we were so, so late. | turned once

again to Lace Gio, my throat thick with pain.

“I have been shattered for so long, my girl. So long, Gio’s eyes glint with moisture but | am thankful he doesn’t

let the tears fall. |

probably would have thought it a trick, if he had. Or a ploy to makefeel guilty

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Chapter One Hundred Forty Eight

thought her father loved her so much,

showed the

| cried out softly, not wanting to get too upurt. 1 screened much! | waited and waited for days, weeks media

that you finally understood how much I hurt.

one of them was you! Coming back to to. “I brok

that was supposed to lovemore than anyone

uselessly, suddenly wishing Leould drink sfucking alrobot, but kooking

the sadness. Because | honestly had no recollection of

leftwith Is “ | stutter, realizing | was just about to

flash upward. “My m-mother, | say, but is shaking his head sadly to pathogens ofand Bases from

decades ago, begin coiling and uncoiling in my min

mind packed away. Old friends, much older

in a book, Different people trying to care for

rgrening and tronding

“Enough,” Gia finally says. a voice that is so low and a deep

now. Calm yourself, my darling Calm yourself”

There's something in his voice. It commands me. Its not soothing

1. a. Taking the choice of whether or not | remember away fromfun the mRCIEL

My breath shudders, and 1 actually manage a slight smile. Thank you

He nods, his eyes still glistening with liquid gold as he watches me. The wrong ofwithout your mate around.

He is your equal, your strength, yo

too painful for you to unravel on your own.”

| smile gratefully watching him walk toward the front gate. “Watt 1 out

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