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The Pack: Rule Number 1 – No Mates
Chapter Sixty–Six
DOMONIC
Claring at the writing on the wall in the dungeon, I growl. We haven’t removed it because the moment I shift tonight, I will begin my search from right fucking here. Koda, Rainier, and I will bank out from the back passageway and me out in a half cirle in an attempt to catch the scent of the killer. The rest of the pack will scour the treet hanks behind the sheriff station. It is my belief that
river his escape route, as it would be the best way to disguise his
sernt. Water is annoying that WN
I exit out of the back page and into the forest to stare at the trees. How I wish I had spent a little more time at the packhouse this moming. I wanted to hold Draven just a little longer. Wanted to somehins, infuse the feel of her body into my arms. Unfortunately, its much too late for that now.
ing into my pocket, I pull out the emerald ring. Then as quickly as Imable, I dig a two foot hole into the ground with my clans. Placing the ring inside, I make
with myself.
When I finally catch the heidend who has been terrorizing our pack – J will die this up and make Draven my wife
As the sun begins to
to set over the horizon, I dial her number. I just need to hear here before I disappear into the woods for the night. I would like nothing better than to keep Draven with me. So the stress of finding the killer soon is higher than it ever was.
“Hello,” She cool, antwering on the first ring.
ith just the excitement in her voice, my heart aches in my chest as I picture her plump lips twisting into a smile.
“Hey God, I sound terrible. So much for hiding my emotions,
I can feel a tremble of unease skating through the bond and I know she must be feeling the doom in my heart the same way that I am sensing her upset.
I chuckle, closing my eyes to fabricate walls in my head. Building them brick by brick and cementing them together around my mind. “Nothing. I just wish I’d gotten another kits from you before I left.”
And that’s the
the truth, because tomorrow there won’t be one. More than likely, all I will get from her is a punch to the gut.
7 wish you had too,” the whispers. “But I’m glad you called.”
My muscles go tight as the sun falls lower, turning the sky a strange syrupy red where it is normally pink. I pour ice over my soul when I speak next by picturing Draven’s body surrounded by a fire, started by an unknown arsonist. I let the image of her dead and fried to a blackened crisp, heat my words as I grow into the phone. I’ll need you back at the house tomorrow morning, fint thing.”
I can sense her startle at my tone. Her voice is shadowed with unease, “You mean you’re not coming back here?”
“No,” I hiss, feeling the muscles of my legs start expanding “I just want you to know that no matter what happens tomorrow, I
“I love you,” she says suddenly and I’m sprechless.
My heart warms to about twelve thousand degrees and my
I my dick goes rock hard. Semily? Right now
not the time fundar.
Fuck. I can’t help the tears that prick my eyelids as I realize, I cannot say it back. I want to, but I’m already changing. My mouth fills with teeth and fangs and my tongue has become long and useless. Then again, maybe its good that I can’t speak, because if I admit something like that to her, she won’t leave tomorrow. It’s hard mough for me to accept that she’s going to hate me when she comes home to find Margo at my place.
that doesn’t mean that I dont relish every spark of pleasure her words ghee me lie the sellish fuck that I am and that’s exactly what I do. My wolf rumbles with elation as I drop down on all fours and my clothes rip from my body. I fuck my phone behind a large tree root and mark the damn thing with a swipe of my
Hroring Deaven a voice as I step away, I realize I recognize her. In my jure anal know her. “Be safe.”
My will whines with delight as
grolle timber of heroe
within
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Usually during a full moon shift my Haman memories are muddled, but such is not the case this time. Now, without a doubt I’m sure, Draven is my one true love and
mbtc.
So I tip my head back toward the sky and
dark and the sun disappears completelua beckoning howl into the air around doe. Calling all my brothers to their stations as the moon dimmers high in the
Taking a deep drink of the air, I can smell something in the wind. Something familiar and primal and canine,
Memories spark to life as images from that night five years ago parade through my mind.
The smell of burning evergreens, of black soot on my tongue, the sounds of women wing and crying, Children screaming on the outside of the parkhouse as the human firefighters fail to douse the flames.
My nose hits the ground upon the freshly turned earth and I sent him. The killer. Like a shadow on a cloudy day, it is barely there and incredibly delicate on the senses. 1 touch it with my tongue, committing the scent to memory while at the same time, accepting exactly what the killer is.
He is no lion, nor pare human, not panther, nor bat. He is a wolf
My eyes heat with urgency as Koda and Rainier step out of the shadow to join me as we chase this phantom’s footsteps, more than a day old
DRAVEN
Staring out into the night from the safety of the living room, I can’t help but feel like I should be back in Port Orchard. The way Domonic was speaking to me before I told him that I loved him, has me on edge. I feel like there’s something he’s not telling me. In fact, I’m almost positive there is.
Something in his voice has me troubled. Maybe I could take the yacht nut the middle of the night and return back to the mainland by myself.
Staring longingly out at the wharf, I feel her before I hear her.
“Don’t even think about it,” Taedora says from just behind as “We were told to keep you here. At least until the morning”
“He’s up to something,” I say “I can feel it.”
Tuming around, 1 note the pure understanding in her gaze. She nods, walking up to stand next to where I stare out the window. “I believe you and trust me when say, his fear for you is real.
I study her, wondering if she might share what she knows with me. Something happened to him, didn’t it? Something that has made him the way he is. Closed off and cold.”
Is he cold?” She giggles. Tve never seen him as passionate about anything before–as he is about you.”
I sigh. “There’s something he’s not telling me. Besides the fact that he killed the doctor. Something else. But – I don’t know what.” I turn away from the window and take a seat on the sofa. “What is Taedora? What is he so scared of?
She groans, her eyes moving toward the stains. If it weren’t so tragic, I’d tell you. But the seriousness of it won’t allow me to. You have to ask Domonic. He needs to
be the one.”
“But I’m his mate. You said so.”
She nods. “Right. You are. But you didn’t need me to tell you that. I’m sure you could feel it from the momend you met
I grin. “I won’t deny that I’ve felt a pull toward him since the moment I met him. That’s a fact. But I still don’t know what it all means”
“Do you know what an Alpha Wolf is?
Of course. I learned about them in school just like anyone else did.”
“Well,” Taedora says, Taking a seat across the sofa from me. “Domonic is the Alpha of the Red Wolf Pack. Just as his father was before.” She quirks an eyebrow into a graceful arch. “Effectively, that makes you their queen.”
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Luna…
The word I heard one of them mention before suddenly chimes into my head with res meaning
I ignore that part for a moment and focus on the mystery of his family. Donsonic’s father,” I question “what happened to him? Did he dar
She shakes her head, her eyes falling dark with sow “But he might as well have.
My body jerks, “What? Why would you say something like that?
She lifts her chin, a cold ankle sparkling behind the heavy soot of her lathes. Because Domonics father lost his soul the night he lost such is a late some deem worse than death.”
“What? You mean…”
nate. And for a weit
“Yes.” She says and 1 gulp.
