The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

Chapter Fifty

DRAVEN

“Black eye?” He shrugs. “No black eye. It most have been a trick of the light. De maybe a kada

Enih glares. | know what a black eve looks like, thank you very much.”

Quinn gives her his sexiest | am a werewolf grin. “I don’t know what to tell you the

Because as you can see, there's not a ti

a tingle muck on my pretty little

1 roll my eyes bravenward. Oh lord. “How are the leones?: Lash Quin, who is still maki

chons to taste.

Emily like she’s a new flavor of Joe cream that he just

” He says, tiening his attention to me

The leaves

He chuckles. “Oh, yeah. Right. They re all good.”

“Olav, Emis says with a laugh. “What are you guys really talking about? Because | know you weren't really out

there checking the leaves.”

ly, and is not a lie.

wel bless her silly little heart. So glad she’s not stupid. “Trespassers,” | say easily, and

Emys her smile. “Oh, | see, You were checking my story. Makes sense.”

She trembles, her feelings obviously a bit hurt. “Just so you know, I’m not much of a liar, | mean- | like stories

just as much as the next girl, but | don’t know are

| shake my head. “Oh, Emily no! ”

she tempts. “I guess it is hard to believe that | am here in the dark

“Som here in the dark?” Qui empts and | nod at him, shushing him with a look.

She yells. “I promise you, I'm telling the truth. The will to live gaveperhuman strength that night and by the

grace of God | made it.”

“Emily!” 1 half snap. Her eyes go wide and she bites her bottom lip. “I believe you, | spear | do. Quinn was just

making sure that the person you said abandoned you wasn’t still out there. We were just trying to keep you

safe.” | meet Quinn’s eyes. Arending to Emily someone she met a guy named Les” Quinn's eyes light with fire.”-

dumped her in the ocean that night and that is where he left her. In the voter alone. With nothing but sharks to

talk to.”

“Leo?” Quinn says quietly and | nod. “On a boat?”

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“A houseboat,” | clarify. “I think you should probably text Roda and let him know. Do now”

“Well why didn’t you-t

[trind“” | shout, glaring at him. “You can guess how far | got with it.”

He laugh. “Oh right. Ha ha, that a funny”

“It’s really not though. I'm going to have to do something about Mister Mayor's vetin powers when he gets back

here.

“Mister Mayor Emily gizzles.

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“A girl in the worch,” | say, after Soda’s ja toldthat he found a girl on our Packing island.

A human hiding out on an island that the had no way of getting to unless she were

or a poddanim mermaid

She said she abandoned these. She's hamless, Koda says. “Even a little chunsy

*Chimay how

The in the woods a month

She camed it

thought you said there was no one there when you put it oral. “

Koda shrugs. His phone pings with a best message and Ewatch his features suspiciously.

Draven isn’t stapid. When | denied her Koda’s number-Tim sure she somehow charmed it out of Quinn, which in

turn will eam him another black eye

Bodes unreadable and for sreason | cant being myself to ask if the message was in fact from Draven, or if it

was from somebody else, I'll find out when I'm alone. | have complete access to all of Draven smesages through

anon my phone, & wet I've kept completely to myself along with her phone number and the intricatingly

sweet taste of her skin. If the bow been texting Koda br Quinn-or Rainier or even Bart it will make what I'm

planning to do to get her to leave- just a tiny bit easier to pull off

Who are you kidding? | might make you want to keep her even more.

Burl can’t. And | won t

toda a eyes go dark as he reads his test. These parthens. They're from Miami, right?

1 mod, now truly curious about the message be received.

What if one of them traveled by boat?”

My body tenses. That could be very possible. That would make a lot of sense. We welldn’t be able to track his

scent as easily along the water. And the Doctor did say that Lab was supposed to meet them here. The way he

said it implied that he honestly had no idea where Leo might be. Almost as if his arrival could be deterred in

sway. A storm perhaps. Or choppy waters. Any of those things might make traveling by boot take longer.

The Doc said Lee wanted Draven for himself and

with his father about it. So Lea may

have had no intention of meeting up

them at all. Which also means, be,

may hav no inentiéror Ssting

therhe. Eo clench and | meet

Roda’s eyes shu. To get here om

Mand-by boat Leo would have had

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status and the Doc were tracking her sent the ente time,” Koda states.

“Tack,” | has with sudden clarity. “And

Degen probably had no idea that

Marcus coa flow hiscscant@rthét,'so

stre really Roti she'd gotten away”

| groad, “These fucken let her think

she escaped. When she never

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That also means that of Draven had

Extened tothat day and left this

place on the train the way | told Aer

to- might have lost Yekibréver She

might HVEheen taken by them and

raped again or worse—killed. And it

would all have been my fault. The

realistion is crippling in its intensity

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“Ire heading to the docks,” Koda says, jumping kito his SUV before | can even give him the okay.

As he screeches out of the parking lot, the look on his face is completely fecal. He les as if he is having a hard

tcontaining his anger. Almost like he wants Lea for hilf. Like Len wronged somehow.

Nak. Na way Stop thinking that crazy shit. She’s mine, They all know she mine.

Could Kodalye feeling that protective of ay gift Or is it something else?

| shake myself of my paranoid thoughts and stop back into the Sheriff Station will Koda later about why he thinks

he suddenly ssort of that caller. Right now the important thing Finding Les by any means necessary

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Axl enter the elevator that leads to the underground holding cells, | smile to myself because | realize Leo has no

idea that Draven is no longer carrying his father’s

Nope. She's carrying mine. The way that she should be.

Raimer is just finishing cleaning up the blood when | enter and say, ‘Change of plan Wake that fucker Marcut up.

I need to have a word”

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