The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

hapter One Hundred-Thirteen

DOMONIC

Once | was finally able to ding Koda outside and away from Emily, | sen the infirmary stall home. Cadence

included. The rest of us- Bartlett, James, Rainier, Timmons, Andrew, Lief, and Benjamin congregled just outside

the building next to our cars.

“If this is about that fucking rule, it can wait. | don’t want to fight right now. | want to be the first person Emily

sees when she wakes.”

| shake my head, swallowing my guilt for the moment. I'll apologize eventually, sure, but right now there are

more important things to discuss. “I've called a vote, and before | tell you what for | need confirmation.”

“Confirmation?” Koda hisses tiredly. “Of what?”

| tilt my head, doing my best to keep my features steady, impassive. “Of whether or not you've decided to keep

Emily.”

for real?

He snorts, shaking his head as his eyes narrow at me. “Are you fo

“Just a

answer the question Koda.”

His jaw clenches, his back going ramrod straight. “Yes. Of course | am.

“Are you willing to move your life here? | mean - is this place where you want to be?”

“Are you askingif I'm willing to leave the pack just to be with her?

That's not what I'm asking, but | nod anyway, just for kicks.

He glares, a low growl rumbling behind his throat. “If that’s the way it has to be, then fine. I'll leave the pack.”

So the answer is yes.

You'd give it all up for her?”

Koda nods, the dark blue of his gaze going cold as ice.

“Thank God,” | say, “Because I've decided | would do the same. But, neither of us should have to.”

Each of my brothers around us laughs, save for Rainier, who has gone eerily quiet.

“What the fuck does that mean, Dom?” Koda whispers, his muscles tensing. ‘Are you saying what | think you're

saying?”

I nod, “Yup.

Called in a vole e with Paul and the others already. The only one left undecided was you.”

Koda smiles, “And you already knew what my answer would be.”

| laugh, “I had a pretty good idea.”

“Was it unanimous then? Koda inquires jovially.

by jaw, my eyes locking with Rainier’s cold brown gaze for a long, heavy moment. “More or less.”

| clench my

Rainier smirks, ripping his gaze away to climb behind the wheel of his car and pull out of the parking lot.

Koda loses his grin, “Where is he going?”

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| sigh, shaking my wad. To Argie, To Port Orchard.”

“Hell get mer it,” Bartlett remarks. “Give him stime.”

Koda meets my gaze, “So he was the one vote against, huh? Why? | thought he liked Draven.”

| shrug. He does, | don’t think his wife for an had anything to do with Draven.”

Koda sighs, glancing around as be shimmer of sunlight begins to shutter behind the mountains. “What are we

going to do about this place?”

| smile as | turn toward Benjamin. “I think | have a plan for that too.”

DRAVEN

“Dermavennon,” a soft sing song voice chimes through my ears. “Draaazzwwwwnnn."

Im uncomfortable. The right side of my face feels smashed against cool plastic and my arms are curled around

my head shading my eyes. Drool dribbles from my mouth as | cto and I finally realize that there is a table

beneath my face and 1 am in an uncomfortable plastic chair.

Slut, | must have fallen asleep.

“Draven!” The voice snaps and | finally jolt to attention.

| slap my mouth, wiping the drool from my lips as | straighten my limbs. For a moment, | simply sit there in my

seat, eyes blinking against the light, body wobbling back and forth as | try and make sense of where and who |

am. It takesa full on minute to realize the cute blond pixie standing beforenext to the hospital bed is

Emily.

“Emily?” | yelp.

She hardly gets to nod before I'm rocketting out of my seat to crush her beneath my arms. “We're not dead

right? You're alive? And we're both standing here, right?”

She giggles, her tiny body folding into mine as we crash the bed into the wall. “We're alive.”

| stand back, my eyes finally coming into focus as | take in her muddy clothes and the golden tan of her skin. My

eyes go straight for her throat, for the bare trace of a crescent shaped mark near the side of her neck where

Koda bit her hours ago. There are no black veins anywhere to be found and 1 suddenly feel like breaking out in a

dance. That's when | notice, we are alone in the infirmary. Completely

alone.

“Where is everyone?” | ask absently, releasing Emily to wander a few steps into the half.

Emily shrugs. “Who is everyone?”

| cross my arms over my chest, my brow furrowing as | work to remember what happened just before | passed

out,

Domonie came... he wanted to talk to Koda... Koda askedto watch Emily for a few minutes while they

stepped outside. | took a seat in the chair and must have simply passed out. After the last couple of nights that

I've had, | guess it was to be expected. “How long have you

been awake?” | ask her.

She shrugs, “I don’t know. A few minutes. When | woke up, you were the only one here.

| snicker, “Koda is going to flip out. He wanted to be here when you woke up.”

She blushes, her dark onyx eyes filling with tears. “He saved me, didn’t he?” she chokes out and L-meet her

gaze with a smile. “After Jason

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tying her eyes as the gas and the mom in pair

told that andele Koda was going to cfor me, for he didnt belie

She sighs, her eyes falling sad. To be

1 Korda was going to look foror not. | cally fold Sanon that to try and scare him.”

bing over you for hours before | came. He was so afraid he was

A single tear spes her eyes to slide down her chank “Restart the r

raps

I nod, pulling her into another bug. “Con, | want to hear every little thing you have to say about what

happened, but I'm through twing in this place. Let's go find the go

“I'm worry | wasn’t able to stop them sherges into my neck. “1-1 tried to get tops, but then he bit met And he

leftin that place | thought | was going to die

My body shudder

close the actually came

ing exactly that. “Em, what's the last thing you remember? The bite?

the shakes her head, stepping back just as we hear the doors to the inferary open. “N-no, I-”

Domonic step inde

Emily waves at him shyly and | have

to hid mile when Koda charges

forward and closes his arms around

her. The scene is s dra biyo TT

intimatahat FAR don't want to

leave, but Dimonic tugtinto his

arms and pushesoutside where

the dawn is barely cresting the

mountain tops. | shield my eyes from

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“How long have | been out? | hiss

Domonic chuckles. A few hours. Long enough

Bart, Lief: Andrew, James, and Timmons are all leaning up against their respective vehicles. Each of them

centering their crazy grins on

"What?" | bark “Do | still have drool on

my chin?” They laugh and | roll my

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eyes, turning toward yess What

the helha(eyeu ap td ister Mayor?

Seething feels very strange. |

glance around, noting that theres no

one else up and about this early. No

sign of Adam No sign of Benjamin.

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Domonic gronds. “Really? Is he the first thing on your mind this morning?”

| shake my head, no. “You better not have killed him.”

He laughs, pullingtoward his Hummer. “Het at the town hall with the council.”

“Really?” | say, shocked. “Why?

Domonic sighs, his silver eyes sparkling with mischief. “Because he’s going to take over these parklands. And the

rest of us are going to go

Home? | gasp, almost too afraid to ask as a smile tugs at my lips. “Does that mean. Are you giving this place to

the Timber Wolves?

“It makes more sense to rebuild the packhouse in Port Orchard for our dads than it does to rebuild an entire

town’s thousand miles away.

Doesnt it?”

| whisper, “But what about Jason? | thought...

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“| haven't forgotten. None of us have.

But we voted on it already, and we

decided that you 1349 safetylof

id pum DHE ortant than

revenge. If he shows his face, we'll be

ready. But I'm done living my life in

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“So...” | start, biting my lips as | slide my arms around his neck. “We're going hto Port Orchard?”

He lifts his chin gracingwith a wide full dimple smile. “We are.”

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