The Pack: Rule Number 1. No Mates
Chapter Thirty–Five
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I stiffen at her words. The Tes you wil burrowing in my chest and digging a grave there. Gathering all of my inner strength, I loosen my hold on her to take a step back. Her eyes are wide, open emerald pools that sparkle with unshed tear. I open my mouth to confess what I am to her and then close it. The vulnerability in her pase being too full of emotion for me to chance telling her right now,
I don’t want her to be scared of me,
The image of that lustful fire of her eyes when she looks me, being bonked with fer has me wanting to move a bit slower.
I think she knows what I am. I’m pretty sure she’s fed it out, but just in case she lost. I’m going to keep my secrets for now.
How comfortable are you with working tonight, knowing your stepfather is all but an hour away?” I ask Knowing the news of his arrival keeps her away from the bar and maybe even safely tucked in my arm for the night, because if she decides not to go in- then I will say someone to Blackjack Creek in my place. But if she chooses to go in -1 will be head into the mountains with Rainier and Koda inste
She swallows, stepping away from me with contemplative eyes that have enough calculation in them to worry me. You said you have eyes they’re watching him?” She mumbles, stepping toward the shade switch on the wall and flipping it to stare out at the dense fog of the afternoon
“They are, I say, not mentioning my plant.
“Do you think panther shifters have supernatural eye–sight?”
Thave to chuckle at that. “You mean like see through the fog better than a human see through the log better than a panther? Because I promise there’s nothing supernatural about it. It simply is what it is. What a panther can do – he can do. But cols in that form.
With her back to me, I am forced to watch the narrowing of her eyes in the reflection of the windows. “And what can you do?? She asks, and I grit ny teeth.
With a sigh, I shake my head, not ready for her to spin on me and call me a monster can protect you, is what
“But that’s all, isn’t it. You won’t go any farther than that,” she says. “That’s all your willing to offer me
I wince, not entirely sure what she’s referring to. “Draven-”
Em going in to work,” she says, cutting me off. “I need the money”
do
I shake my head, thinking to myself about how I going to end those fackers at the book tonight. And about how in the days to follow, Draven will be free to leave. She doesn’t know it yet, but she doesn’t need the money, because I will pay for any and everything she needs for as long as she lives. Even if I don’t get to be in her
I step toward her slowly, placing my hands on the glass of the window and caging her in. She’s my eyes in the reflection. “Iaw afraid of you” she whispers.
My jaw clenches, “Don’t be,” is all !
I try and close my arm around her, will sheet?
Still staring at me in the glass, she says, “I am though.” 1 grimace, my arms fallingly to my sides. She ens around and places her dainty hands on my chest Then, raising up on her tip–toes, the kisses my jawline. “But not for the reasons you think.”
My entire body shudders, and I pull her toward me by her hips. ‘Stry with me tonight I practically beg her, dipping my mouth toward her earlobe, where I swirl and nibble and penly. punish myself with her gasps of pleasure.
Then of course, my phone rings
my back pocket
“Damn it,” ron, releasing her and stepping away
Gryffin, Speak of the devil, say, watching Draven carefully as she pretends cot to ear hustle at my side.
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“The human. Hex on the nose, Hlavčane time of on till on the cabin, but the gory a heading pour direction in one of those Mark sedans. What do you want us to
mile to myself. “Tat him come. Raider will be ready for him on the highway into tigen.”
Hanging 19, Leye Draven, the’s looking a little ton peaked for my liking. What is it
She sucks in a harsh breath. Tid I hear you say human?”
|| nod, “Yes, Your stepfather brought a friend”
Her eyes widen. His doctor. He mud hoe lenght his dieton”
My mind this back to what the told me earlier. About the doctor who tried to change her mother into a shifter. The doctor that apparently cha Have you see him before?” I questions.
To my surpose, her
sparkling with tage. That1
t in replaced with something way more feral. Tiny Esta clenched, then fairly seething with anger. “No,” the snaps. Her greet
No,” the snaps. Her green g uld give anything for some time alone with that bastard”
She wants to hurt lon. I realoje right then, that yes, Doven in scared of her stepfather, but not because she’s some bellen damel. On the contury. Her fear is consistent with the majority of her species in bring naturally afraid of the predator that is a jungle cat. And before that? She thought she was protecting her
(her dieto.. killed far meither. Trying to change her. Making her sick,
There may be one thing that keeps her here with me tonight and before I can stop self I’m rolling with the idea.
Tani a selfish Jack (there ever sat ate,
A sek and Trish fuk
Without breaking eye contact with Draven, I dial Rainier. He answers on the first ring
“Number three is heading into town,” I inform him,
“I know, Gryllin texted right after he called you?
I chuckle. Maybe that old pussy is a better ally than I realized. “Did he now?”
“He did,” Rainier chortles and then apparently reads my mind. “You want me to bring to you, don’t you?”
1 study Deaven. She is fally parting with barely contained Bary
I speak carefully into the phone, “Follow him into town first, be’s coming this way for reason and I want to know what that is. After he’s completed his business. take him to the docks. We’ll meet you there.”
Rainier’s laugh is so loud it could probably be heard for miles. “Would you like him get wrapped?”
smile. “Absolutely: “Text me when he’s ready,” I command, then hang up the phone.
Lilting my eyes to Dravens, I smirk. Are you sure you want to work tonight? Or would you rather go for a little boat ride?”
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