The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

Chapter Forty-One

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| watch through the window of the cabin, my eyes trained on the fully shifted lion they have lain out on the table.

| can see the doctor. His greasy black mustache and beadle eyes glinning off the panel lighting up above him.

Tubes are stick out of Gryff’s hind leg pumping blood into a bag the doctor has draped over his back. A low

growd sounds from about forty feet behindon the bill. It’s Logan seruling tothat someone has eyes on

Marcus

Perfect. It's time. | let out a long howl giving the okay for the others to attack. The gal is to get the Dee Vas and

Marcus out to the open and in the range of Timmons dant. These two assholes sean 1 be expecting webes, but

they will be expecting hints.

Trades and Gayle tear down the front door, tempting the notice of the two panther inside the cabin. Just as

expected, the good doctor. tranquiline pum while Marcos shifts into full panther form. The sight of that bastard

hijacks my blood pressure up about five hundred per tear him apart piece by fucking piece and sodomize him

with his very own parts for the years of abuse he inflicted on Dren

With our operation in full swing 1 leap from the boulder just behind the cabin and land with my full weight on the

mel. A mile down Rain, and Quinn shit and spread out. Their job is to keep watch on the perimeter just in case lo

shows up as we suspect he

Not for one minute do | believe that Marcus fully intended to change Michael into one of them. I'm sure whatever

promises made to him was meant to be broken. Michael was just a play. An extra lab rat. Someone they could

manipulate into an active duty deco

Doc Vas shoots down two lionesses with darts. The female go down outside the cabin and Marcus does exactly as

expected. He leaps out the front door and directly in Tinslee of sight.

Perfect

Ther the shot before it hits him. Unfortunately, Marcus doesn’t go dren with the first hit. He says, falling forward

on all fours until he spieson top of the cabin and let out a howl of frustrated anpr.

| grow as Timmons second shot pieces the night air, lodging in the fallen panther domen.

I leap just as Do Vas stumbles outside, a rifle in hand that he points directly at me.

kill you before you can take him, Doc Was hisses

I snarl and the look of fear in the doctor's yes pleases me, | know what he sees. All too large to be real. With eyes

that understand every move he makes and Lings like rames that reflect the moonlight with the sweet promise of

death

To not afraid of his pathetic gua. Not with Goose standing behind him, a forty five peching the base of the

doctors skull.

“Drop it,” Goose commands

And just at | suspected, the good doctor smarter than the average bear, so he does

BRAVEN

curses, lowering his head. “I'm going to get dressed.”

He saunters up the companionway, grantinghis back and leavingto soak in his words.

Med to mated with anyone.

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as he saying that Domonic and are d

| stomp my food in Inustration. “We're not done talking about this!” | shout up at him before whipping out my

phone to send a text.

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Thanks for sendingwith Koda. Ho great without a shirt. He's also a ser you are. Oh and RTW Michael's dead.

Tumst he was

For five minutes 1 stare at my message, thinking | hated Domonie mough to get hird to answer me, but he

doesn’t.

Suddenly that thought is enough to change my anger into something much harder for my hyper independent

and to accept. Fear

Asense of dead fall overat that thought

at that thought and | have the abrupt n

(pralization that Ham a jerk.

He lefthere trying to keepsafe from the one man | have been running from for far too long.

What did | expect him to do?

Off

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Please be okay Please. If you don 1 answersoon, I'm going to stral this damn yacht and head back for you.

Domanic

When the there dots appear lettingknow that he is typing, | drag it a shuddering breath.

Thank God

I'm tempted to let you steal the yacht just so that | can spank you for it.

Ton't be a dick. What happened? Is Marqu

Domenic-

What the hell does that mean? You've got him?

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Mr-

Domenic? Please. | have to know that you're okay. | have to touch you. I'll go crazy don’t.

Thamanic

You shouldn't say things like that. Not this close to the full moon

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What does the moon have to do with anything?

Doronic

You'll see. | have to gs. Callwhen you get to the safe house.

Safe house? What fucking safe house?

The shit of the ocean and the sound of the yacht engine dying shakesfrom my stupor and | glance up from

my phone to find Koda priming down atfully dressed

Con,” he says, turning around to head back up on deck,

| follow him up and the moment | step out, spotlights cto life along a small wharf to my right. The fog is

thicker here, but | can still see the tops of evergr trees and all the sharp black rocks that surround the shoreline.

Chappy waters slam against the cliffside of what appears to be the highest point of the und A the story structure

boom in the darkness. The only house visible from the sea. The entire it can’t be more than ten feet across, it is

that small.

“Leguest,” | mark, taking Koda’s outstretched hand. “You pups own this too.”

His laugh is answer enough as he leads onto the pier. Then dominoes, twenty lights on each side of a stone

stairway go on Lighting path leading all the way in an embankment.

we take our tclimbing up toward what appears to be a duplicate of Domnits place back

“How many houses are there out here? | ask my head on a swivel at se on the mainland. “And what's with you

guys and your glass wal

He smiles as we get the top of the stairs and | am greeted with the most gloriously beautiful sight | have ever

seen

This house was obviously built on the highest point giving any who are up her a full the hundred sixty degree

view of all that surrounds it.

We had this place built five years ago. It's our parkhouse, But we've never used it. Anda says softly unlocking the

front door with his palm. “It locks behind a coded entry

A panel slides open to the right of the dot to reveal a small keyboard and computer screen. Koda types in

something that falls into a stream of asterisks along the

here the palm sensor next to the door begins to glow with blue light. “Place your right hand on that panel,” he

tells me

1 nod, myping into the open hall as |

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My neck jerks up. “Dotong’s room?”

Hegnerts, “Should | direct you to mine steady”

The moment | step inside the hoide it thrums to life. The doar twings shut and locks behindand the entire

first for Hoods with soft light. The decor here is

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done in black and white with while he trick lighting thoughout the place, Modernas hell.

The wall to wall television in the Thing room flickers on and the sound of spots recast fills the air.

These gay like their Sportscenter, Jess

My phone pings in my pocket and | whip it out to find a test message from an unknumber

What the fuck?

Can't wait to see you again.

It's been too long.

| stare at the screen for what feel like forever before | realize Roda has retumed. It looked because the first thing

he does in

hands.

After reading the message, he asks, “Who besides Demonic has

your number?”

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