The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

Chapter Forty-Nine”

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‘It’s going to be you, the, Lief, and Grant. We need to spread out in each direction thaji tirde the area. Well come

back in from the opposing diretion and pour de land on all sides simultaneously. If he i here somewhere, | want

him found. He javi rend to catch his scent. Now that we know what it smells like, se

to track him down. Especially with his father in lock-up.

Koda nods, his eyes shitting around the station. “When are we heading lock in the luajal?*”

“Not until after we get a hit,” | say in a resigned voice, thinking of Thunen and how does going to be pissed when

she finds out what I've dres in the doctor.

Shit. Who cares about that part? utead, think of how heartbroken she’s going to be when you send her way.

My chest aches at the tho

Damn it. | really shouldnt have slept with her, but on the bright side-she’ll be carrying my scent for the rest of

her life. No matter when

And when she does leave and meets somesse che? Where?

An image flashes before my eyes of Draven and a faceless man | see him riding on of her the way | did last night

and | feel my fangs tingle with the strength of my anger. Her moins, bet sollness, her tightness - all his for the

taking. Fuck my verd.

Sher’s too beautiful to go on alone for too long. And my chest is aching again.

fast think about how you will for if she bars to death in are because setane wanted to get to you

That is something that | believe would thoroughly and my life. And here | was, thinking my father was weak,

when in reality - he’s still standing. Fés still alive. If something happened to Deaven on my watch? | don’t think

that could live through

Maybe our father are stronger them we think,

| shake my head. | can’t think about that now, | hose a pinther to find.

My phone rings and | whip it out to see Draven’s nflash across the screen

i got like a facken satellite frequency to my mind. Every tI think of her, she call

Well, not every time. | spent the entire yacht ride over replaying our night together in my head and she didn’t

call until I pulled into the dock. Then again, she was sleeping. Like a damned angel of hell sent to barment my

“Draven | say into the phone.

Un-hey. His You busy?”

God | love her voice. Mty balls single at the sound of it.

am, but | have ment

hear her on the other end of the line pacing. She's nervous about something this may sound a little weird but |

need Koda’s number”

My hand locks over the prose and my eyes go straight to Koda and his ears perk up linghe heard what she

said. No facking way. They weren't realise long And why would the want him after dies had met it wouldn't

couldn't be as good with him.

“What the feck would you want him for Draven? You have no business talking to him; 1 growl, my eyes narrowing

at my brother in front of

She laughs, low and sexy, the Every that the does when 1 piss her off and in spite of me, | smile. “He leftin

charge of something here and | need to let him know that | got sinformation on it.”

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“Feck that - pru dimi’t need his number. He's standing right here, What's this about Driven?”

“He in?” She saya nervomly and my i

pchest begins to rumble with anget. Oh you know what, | think it can wait until tonight. iyer”

“Hey wait a minute! Draven?” But she’s hung up,

at Koda, my eyes sharp with fury. Tire to explain?” | him, “Now. Before | slp your throat out!

Koda nods. “Right.”

DRAVEN

Oh shu oh shit of shipp

Maybe that want the best idea. | should have just waited for Quinn to get back in and then told him to test Roda

with what I've lea

Why am | so stupid?

__ “What happened?” Emily inquires softly.

Th. Nothing. Phock 111 just wait for Quinn and have him call Koda instead.”

She and | were huddled on the couch while she gaveall the gory details of the ank she spent as Les pet

Aria what is wing with that family?

Apparently La cacross her in the woods and invited her to stay in his boathouse He took her out onto the

ocean and wined her and dined her. Pretending to care for her. The bastard. He sedvond her out of her virginity.

Then as the week went, he becmor and more violent. She said he kept complaining about how horrible

women are. How they cannot be trusted. That each and every night, he becade mon agitated until finally he fed

himself on her for hours before throwing her into the ocean and leaving her for dead.

The one thing she never mentioned was that Loo was a panther. So maybe he never shifted in front of her at all.

It might be that she has no idea shifters exist. Same

| didnt before Marcus cinto my life.

| thought about throwing a few comments out there. Comments about seeing strange things. Men that seem to

be half animal and half human. But then | realized- its not my secret to tell. Maybe it would have been. If | hadn't

willingly slept with one last night. But | did and now I feel the need to tread carefully with that ktowledge. | will

not see any of my twelve fonte puppies hurt.

Puppies. Oh how they would die to hear that that is how | see them. As peret, cuddly puppies. Not giant angry

wolves which is probably closer to the truth.

bat guy Donsonic your boyfriend?” Emily coos.

1 smile, my face heating to a thousand degers “Sure. | guess | mean | sigh. “I don know, We haven't really said

anything like that but, he certainly likes to act. like he is,”

She smiles, blushing. “When | fint met Koda, out on the trail | thought for a minute that he liked me. He caught