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The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates
Chapter Ninety-Five
DOMONIC
When we roll up to the market, all | can see is the small throng of pack members that crowd the front entrance.
The doors are closed, the lights are dim, and there not a single sign of movement inside. My heart aches in my
chest. that the fick had happened beve? Koda and | leap out of the Hummer, leaving it running and. diving
toward the front of the market. What | can see through the dnk of the tinted glass clenches my throat with fear.
Deaven'’s body lays crumpled on the ground just inside.
“What happened here?” | hear Koda ask, not truly expecting an anRUPT.
| reach for the doors, using all my strength to pay them opens with my fingertips. A sfying snap sounds around
her from the ground. “Who did this?” | screech. She’s breathing and her pulse is strong, so | release the breath |
had no idea Id been holding and place her in the backseat of my car. She has slight lump on her forehead, but
she’s otherwise unharmed. But still, my body tenses with anger.
Is she okay?” Rodrank.
“I think so,” | hiss. “Grab as many of these people as you can. We need to know what happened.”
La minute,” koda says, taking a deep whiff of the air. “Where’s Emily?”
1 spin around as Koda shifts into his massive black wolf right here on the pavement, his clothing shredding
around him. He races into the store, niffing at the ground near the door before stalking toward the back of the
market with a growl.
| scan the crowd, my eye catching on a well-built male with the hint of a smirk on his face. “You” | hiss, wasting
no tas 1 grab him by the collar of his shirt. 35 fangs slice our threateningly and | throw him against the side
of my car with enough force to dent the passenger door. “What are you smiling about?”
The sideways smile from a moment ago melts into a frown. A muscle in his jaw ticks nervously as he clamps his
lips together, shaking his head. “T-Im not smiling.
1 chuckle, shaking my head at him and stepping in close. “Who did this?”
He swallows anxiously, his body trembling. | wasn't in the store. | don’t know.”
“You saw something,” | snap. “Tellwhat you saw.”
He shakes his head, “I just got here,” he says, his eyes shooting left and right skittishly, “All | know is that girl is
a troublemaker and she probably deserved what happened to her. Whatever it was.”
| could smash him. | could reach my hand up around his throat and squeer hard enough for his head to pop off
his neck, but I don’t. My eyes go dark and lean in close to whisper. Do you know who | am?”
He trembles. “Th the new Alpha?”
“That's correct,” | say softly, glaring down on him. “And that troublemaker do you know who she is?
His eyes light with defiance. “N-not really. Gabriel says-
‘1 do not give a salty Ettle fuck what Gabriel says. What do you say?”
1-1 dont know | just-1-"
That troublemaker you are refering to, is my mate, | announce, catching more than one stare from the onlookers.
And is going to be your new Luna.”
His eyes dare wide, as he begins to crumble in fear, dropping toward the ground as if to kneel at my feet. “I had
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtno ideat I-Im sorry!”
A shrill howl fills the air, catching my attention. It's Koda and he’s no longer in the store. In fact, it doesn’t sound
like he’s even in tom. He must have scaled the wall on the border and headed into the mountain beyond. Hes in
the forest somewhere. But why?
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He picks up on the first ring. “Domonic?
“I need you at the market right na
Something has happened”
“What? My dads voice is cold with bay. “Whats happened:
1 found Draven unconscious, inside the mpty market, but thes okay. | need you top down here and take her
home.”
Three minutes later, my dad and Chase pull up to the market in a black Beamer. Before my dad is even all the
way out of the car, I'm fully naked, ignoring appreciative stares of the stray females as | ready myself to shift.
What the hell
Chase asks as he approaches.
1 him and focus on my dad. “Emily is missing” | inform him pointing toward the backseat and then toward the
cottage. The boys will be here in about hour. If I'm not back by then, send them East into the woods to join us.”
“Where are you
“I have to help Koda search. Take care of Draven and I'll meet you as soon as | can then turning to Chase, | say.
Find out what these people know! The pair of them nod. And | spin around, glaring down at the trembling,
frightened shifter that | dented my car with tre you ready?”
He finches. “For what
| smile. To join the hunt.”
DRAVEN
| awake to a room full of voices and the feel of a cold rag over my eyes. The sensation feels so nice that | sigh
contentedly and shit slightly deeper into the downy softness of the bed. My movement silences the room around
with Emily. Not in my bed. Why am | in my bed?
| jolt upright, the rag falling into my lap and my eyes flying open as my head goes smming. “Emily?” Sur, maybe
a bit slower next time
My vision is slightly blurry and it takes a few winks before | can see clearly.
“Hey kiddo,” a familiar voice says.
| do a double take, the room suddenly coming into focus as someone approacheson the bed. “Bart?” |
squawk. He nods, taking a seat next we sounds horrible. My that is dry and raw, my limbs slightly sore. My hand
ramver my belly as if to make certain all my parts are in “I'm okay,” | say, shaking my head to clear it. | smile up
at my favorite bartender and let his arms enclosein a long-noited bear hug
He pullsin close, liftinginto his lap so | can bury my face in his neck. “I missed you too, bidda.”
“You're here,” | say softly. And Jesus, did | swallow gravel?
Tm here,” he says.
She’s awake? Adam'’s voor sus from the doorway.
1 confirm, pulling back, as my gan falls around the room
starts. “Do you remember what happened
Adam's face is troubled and he and Chase pile into the room to take seats on opposite sides of the bed.
“Deaven?” Adam star
| flinch, my mind winding back slowly. “We were at the market... Emily and L Thing -Ip, shifting through the
scattered moments as my
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reboot-“weird. We didnt feel comfitable. We were leaving, but someone stopped
“Someine?” Chase pipes up
“Tason,” | nod. “Jason the off-duty guard was there: He-a soh chokes my throat “had illy. The market was empty!
The duons were locked. Someone was holdingagainst the wall. He smelled like smoke ”
Smocke! Bart interipts.
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1 nod, “-and sandalwood. At least |
think it was sandalwood. He said he
had a messig for me. He told me... |
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memory ppynding don different
chrriers of my brain. He said to stay
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away from the Alpha or else.” My yes
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fill with tears. “Where's Emily? Lery
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out. “They're going to hurt her! Be
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said I'd find pieces of her all over the
mountain if | went to the ceremony
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Adam shakes his head, ignoring my question as he stands and confers with Chase in the doorway, | turn toward
Bart. “Where's Domonic? Did he
Bart nods. “Domonic found you. He had Adam bring you back here. You've been out for a few hours.”
“But where’s Emily?” | ask again, hating that everyone seems to be ignoring my question. “A few hours???
Jesus!”
Bart swallows thickly, bolding onto my shoulder as if he expects his answer to send into a fit of rage. “Emily...
wasn't there.”
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmFuck,” Thiss, trying to stand up just to be pressed back down with two of Bart's hand instead of one. “Letgo!
I have to find her!”
“You are to stay here, Draven. Damn it! Bart scolds. There's nothing you can do. You can’t shift. Koda, Dom, Paul-
all the rest of the guys - they're ond looking for her now! You have to trust them. They'll find her
“what if they don’t?” | whimper.
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They will” Adam cuts in. He turns to
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Chase. “Call an assembly of the
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questioned about this, The ladies that
run that chicken coop of a market
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“Shouldn’t we wait for the guys to get back?” Bart argues. “Just in case any of the try to start trouble?”
Adam appears thoughtful, holding his
hand up to pose Chase as he stands.
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His eyes meet mine. “Draven, do you
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Bart snorts. “She’s not a shifter! How the fuck would she scent anyone?”
Adam and | both ignore him, meeting each other's eyes across the room. | nod. “Abs fucking-lutely.”
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oh god i hope they find emily.
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