The Pack: Rule Number 1 – No Mates
Chapter Seventy–Two
Getting off the train and stepping out into a large city so different from Miami is a blue experience for me. I was used to high rise buildings that lined the beach. but this was altogether different. No kandy shees here. No palm trees either, just wonderful autumn leaves against a backdrop of gorgely spiked mountains. The new of it all is so breathtaking, for a moment I don’t feel the ache in my neck.
“Til letch my car and meet you both in the front of the station Gabriel says,
Ling into the wash of people heating toward the parking lot.
Emily and I nod as we proceed to step
tep outdoors into the crisp fall air. ” you sure that Emily asks as we wait near the rub marked for Pick Up
“No, I admit, thinking of the handsome new acquaintance we won the train. But hom the same town we’re heading to and he said he knows a place we can
“What if it with him?” She remarks playing with the sleeves of Koda’s eater. I had most forgotten that she had nothing to her name. She was still wearing the same pestkult she’d been wearing for the last two days.
1 doubt that’s what he meant. I chuckle, wonder if we can get him to stop at one of these boutiques on the way there. We need to get you some clothes.”
But I don’t have any money,” Emily protests. And besides, Im not ready to take Koda’s water off”
* I concede. “You can share my clothes until we can figure a way around town and buy you your own. And don’t worry about money. What I have – you have,”
you dare argue.”
She gives me carefree smile. “Alright. I won’t
“Look“” I say, pointing toward the line of cars heading out of the packing structure. Think that’s him”
He’s really handsome,”
“He Is Too handsome.
“What if be a serial killer?”
Then thank God there’s two of us.” I grin. “We’ll hust have to have each other’s back
The ride to the Village of the Ard Way is quiet for the most part. The only sounds coming from Emily and me as we marvel over the beauty of the landscape. Gabriel
sits quietly until we make our way out of the city and onto the open mountain road. That’s when he decides it is time to get masy
“So what brings the two of you out to the mountains without anywhere to stay?” He asks as we turn onto a barely paved road lined with boulders and giant
Trusting Emily to remain quiet I answer him myself. Tm punishing my boyfriend. hot a beemmly. But it’s certainly not the truth.
“Boyfriend?” Gabriel’s voice rings of disappointment and I mile to myself knowing statement had the desired effect.
This way he knows not to hit on me and at the same time just on the off chance that he is in fact a serial killer–he’ll think there’s someone out there that misses me. Which of course, there isn’t
“I should have known a gorgeous girl like you would have a bean.”
Immort. A brand Brally! Who talk that?
“So this place you were telling us about,” I saying the conversation toward something I do want to discuss. “Is a shelter, or an apartment complex? A house?”
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distinct impression tha
to a mokery keking brides
kun, trumen Who sent pas this way? I mean where did you get the
derided this is the way we were headed.”
cept everyone. So if what you’re saying is true, you should tell me one so that I can
irmie sably tense in the keys toward him he puts the car just before the bridge. What do
arching for the truth before freezing on the mark along my neck. He loses his smile, and allows thickly. “Nevermind. I’m
for the night. Then tomorrow, you can meet everyone and decide if you still want to stay.”
harvest moved an inch since then abemson. I’ve been here at the bar for hours Wallowing in my misery and drinking bottle after d been. I’m drink an fark and past the thought of sering Marga tonuit makes me want to seth something
bottle of
atomic? What if that bastard is
somewhere made me. I know he’s not. I don’t know how I know, but I do. This rem putting on trying to paint Margo as my mate, its not going to work. (realized this. Actually, fight have idd know when I decided on this plan that the hiller was a wolf Because I refuse to mark Marzo, and I’m not going to fork ben. Minking he wouldnt do a damn thing for her anyway, except maybe kill her. But Driven didn’t know that when I led through my teeth and told
with that lie was immense Like buming through my veins when 1 uid it. There were so many signs telling me that what I was doing was
- I should keep her here and protect her one But I did not because I am an idiot
the hurt she’s been through. Everything her stepfather did to her and everything Les tried to do to her…I pushed her away like she wasn’t shit. She shared darkest memories with the and pulsed all over them by sending her away.
uter torment. My chest is ponding abnormally and my fangs feel like they’ve been ripped from my mouth. And now? just five hours after she’s been gone, I am The liquor only helps enough to dull the ache. The memories of her are still there
“gona sleep hares through my brain dog as he eats himself across from me in the booth.
the nest of my been. I no longer give a a fuck where I sleep, if I can sleep at all
“used this uplet gros know your heart was in the right plane, but
should have known better. Your problem is you think you’re invincible.”
Toow I’m not invincible dickhead What I didn’t know–was how to protect my girl gh, dropping my face my hand. “I just wanted her somewhere safe Now don’t have any fucking idea where she i
1 door swings open and Koda stomps inside. “Any news?”
To asshole. Unless you count my being the world record for bottles of whiskey downed i
1” 1 peer at him with unsteady eyes. “Dil you catch her seent
Fiss terti deck, his eyes falling on Bartlett “Actually,
My body jerks and right way I notice Bartlett Lense | the meat across from me.
here to discuss with Bartlett,”
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“Really?” Ranlett shrugs, “Why is that?‘
Keda glares at him, his hand on his gun holster, “Because you say you dropped them at the airport, Bartlett, but thats not where I read a fer vent
Bartlett’s threat bobs and he crosses his as in front of his chest in defiance
“You caught their scent?” I hiss, shooting to my feet. “Where
Finally, he faces me. At the train station. Headed up
p the northern tracks.”
I tam toward Bartlett, my fangs slicing out as I grow. “You lied. You fucking fir to me
- d. Then he stands, taking me in from head to tot because they left on the train instead of
Bartlett lowers his head, “Yeah, I did. where they went.
I pound my fon into
o the table. “I am your fucking Alpha! I growl, my muscles thing, expanding, preparing to shift. “You know something. I’d bet my
He shrugs. “I don’t know shit.”
I rip off my
shirt and head toward the back of the bar. “Outside Bartlett. We settle the right now.”
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