The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

w practically weeping forand the scent of it was so strong nearly tumbled us by almost steering off the road.

“No? | ask in disbelief. “You're tellingyou felt nothing?”

“I felt your uninvited finger dragging across my shoulder, yes.” She sighs, looking away, “But that’s all.” She

crosses her arms over her stomach, drawing my eyes down to her hips once again.

God her hips are incredible. They punch out on each side in a perfect curve from her tiny waist and my hands are

aching to grab onto

“So, nothing else then? No... tingles, or heat, just... past a finger drawing over your flesh and creeping you out?

is that what you're saying?”

She hesitates for a moment, then nods, but the dilating of her pupils when she answers tellsshe're

remembering what it felt like and that she is a dar. But why lie toabout something like that? What's the deal?

She can t think I'm ugly, can she? Because, I'm not. Thet

Then it occurs to me. She was staying wo | two guys in Dobson's cabin. Two! Fuck. She might just be pretending

she doesn’t feel anything so she can lie faithful to her kart.

But she’s my mate! She has to be. | sigh heavily, disappearing into my doset to change, but leaving the door

open so that | can watch her

Shit? Lyor since Domonic met Draven, I've been hoping to find mine. When we decided on our rules five years

ago, | was the only one who wasn't fully on bound with the No Mates rule. Yes, | missed my mother Eike

everyone else did, and yes, it was a tragic loss, Our fathers were unprepared for such an attack, but we weren't.

Back then, the only thing I imagined might healfrom the pain of losing my mother was finding my mate.

Maybe | am wrong about her. lve been wrong before. When | hest saw Emily, | thought maybe she was mine.

She’s beautiful and the desire. for her struckright away, but there was no delicious scent, there were no

sparks. | even tried to kiss her when we were cooking together in the packhouse, Nothing, no electricity

whatsoever. Then the next morning, Koda attackedin the living room and it becclear towhom Emily

belonged to.

1 was insanely jealous of the two of them, Domonic and Koda. Not because of the women, but because | wanted

my mate.

Before we shifted last night, Rainier confessed he found his mute too and even marked her already. So

something was happening around here. Something powerful had to be drawing our mates forward, firull.

As | finish getting dressed, | gaze at Delilah. Her back is toas she steps out onto the pato stare out at the

sea. Her fiery hair billows around her like flames in the breeze, the soft golden touches of it giving life to the

illusion

Could it be that I'm just insanely attracted to her? Could this just be wishful thinking?

No. It can’t be. My reaction to her was too different. Too... singular,

Fuck: Het scarf. | dropped it in the creek when | went to rescue her. The knowledge saddensa bit and | can’t

rightly explain why.

As | step out of my closet, dressed in jeans and a muscle shirt, | hear her phone ring and hang back as she

answers it. Quieting my

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breathing, I listen in

Cane! I'm going to kill you for leavinget heet Why the for heating you your

The man’s voice is harely andilde, bet can hear it. Sery, D. Indyk gee trying to guten er bare a few minutes ags.”

Delilah jerks and her voice comes out souded. “They let prae in the both of

yreey

“Of course they did, 1). | already told you they would. Listen, Lonly called to let your hom we were okay I'm

treat brow way waged to k

Ohhhh! You're okay! That's great! Meanwhile, I'm starving, benke, and lyg changed on by lion in the eye oys and

have to laugh.

“His

“Not the point, Cane

Charlie and | will be back tomorrow night. They want us to stay here and wait for Elder Promon he’s the expfit on

what we saw that linn do. | told you | wasn’t imagining things! | saw hat thats by coming to them. He and Elder

Roman are probably going to head back with us?

Delilah’s voice suddenly becfrantic, “Toman? Not Not CDrait jou remember what be

“Well, dad’s gone D. I've got to go. Charlie wants to say something, here you go

“No! Wait a minute-

“Hey, Dr

“Charlie, what the fuck? Put my brother back on.”

“He's busy, they just took him inside. | just wanted to tell you how much | miss that ass of yours and how | cant

wa

“Fuck off Charlie! Delilah snaps, before hanging up the phone and dropping her face into her hands.

Headquarters?

Elder Roman?

What I'm feeling right now is a mix between disappointment and trepidation, Everything | just heard, | absolutely

tune to report i brother and this Charle are probably the ones who shot Gayle. And from the sound of things, they

watched her drafter Then of course, there is the nRoman that for sreason rings a tiny little bell in my

head, but | figure why.

| wonder if Charlie's her boyfriend. The thought saddens me

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toy say

Staring at her back as | approach, | decide | have to know if she’s any mate before | make any decisions on what

to do fuck it, I'm just going to go for it, and when | reach her leaning against the railing | reach out and take her

hips in my hands just the wa I've been dying to.

A low growl forms in my throat when she gasps, but she doesn’t shove my hands away. She straightens her back

and | curve my hands upward, closing them around her waist as | pull her back against me. | instantly hard, but |

don’t want to scate her, so | refrain from grinding myself into her ass the way | want to. It’s difficult. She's

breathing heavily as | dip my face into her hair and trace the shell of he war with my nose. | can feel her

trembling and smell her arousal as it pools between her legs. | slide my hands back down over the perfect

sphere of her hips and dip my mouth toward her shoulder carefully. The moment my mouth crests her skin she

pushes back intoand

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fire sparks across my lips.

“Oh,” | moan softly, lashing at her flesh with my tongue.

“Maximus,” she breathes, leaning her head back against my chest. She’s fucking tiny, I'm dying to have her

under me.

| chuckle, wondering why she decided on that nfor me. “Lilac,” | say tauntingly, nipping at her shoulder with

my teeth. “Do you have a

boyfriend?

As my hands slide slowly around the front of her to stroke up and down her rib cage, she shivers. “W-what?”

1 grin, placing an open mouthed kiss against the side of her neck and groaning with pleasure as a bolt of electric

charge rides overand | nearly cum in my pants. She is it. She is be

“Are you going to tellyou didn’t feel that either? | whisper, pulling her in tighter as my body goes insanely

hot.

1... she trails off on a whimper as | suck gently on her skin.

1 can smell her juices and | know

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She still hasn't turned around and | have to wonder what her eyes look like right now. What is she thinking

about? Me, or Charlie?

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you to a hotel, like you wanted.”

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“And then what?” she whispers,

“What do you mean?”

“Nothing. Never mind,” she says, finally turning around to study me. “I don’t live out here. | live in Oregon. I'm

heading htomorrow.

| tense as a sharp pain burns through my chest. ‘I thought you said you were going to be here for a couple days.”

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narrowing. Fuck that. “Are you so sure that’s all you're going to want?”

My question surprises her and she nibbles on her lip causingto swallow a groan and my eyes to focus there.

“Don’t act like you don’t do this all the

time,” she says with a smirk. “You probably change women. you change underwear.”

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Her eyebrow quirks up. “Oh, I'm going to leave.”

I grin, throwing her a winkell just see about that.