NovelEnglishThe Pack: Rule Number 1- No Mates
Chapter Forty
“Koda 1 yello, en wice cracking. Reaching for the wall, |it to pull my army feet.
If he were he would say se
ist as | am about to shy phone from poket, a pair of hare, caramel tinted lent steps to the pool of blood in the
kitten, M. yes tha muscular arm draped in swirls of black ink pushes the swinging door completely open. Kodos
beiving chest is coverd in blood, his Lark blue i amusement as he stands there. That signature smirk of his, firmly
in place. Thank Go One arm remains behind his back, the drip of Mood podd
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“You couldn't answit me? Cat had your tongue, or what? | tipe and he chuckles. Twas worried for you, idiot,”
Koda shrugs, sauntering byand maneivering his hand so | can’t see what it is he holds
You killed him, didn’t you? | shinger and be freezes nichtride.
out onto the deck
With his back to me, he mods, then continues up the steps and out onto
Something tellsthat the snap | heard before was Michael's neck. And the thing that Koda was holding behind
his back-the thing that was dripping Blood - must have been Michaels head
the body? No.
Do 1 want to peek into the kitchen and see the body? No. Not really. But for sregain | can’t help myself
The moment | step into the mess hall 1 regret it. Michael's body does in fact kay lifeless on the floor. But his
limbs appear strangely stretched. Like he must have smitted into skind of half-state at that’s not the worst
pa. Aside from the open neck wound which is still trickling with blood, his backrests on the heels of his feet. Ha
entire body has been folded in half at the hips.
Holy shit these wolves are arrang
must have pushedout into the hall and snapped Michael in half all in the 1 beard. So, not his neck after all
huh? Nevermind, that his head is in fact, mi
Just the memory of that crunching, cracking, popping, sound drives a shiver
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtMy eyes
over the elongated hands and oddly thin wrists. The flesh of his skin tagged with gray. Noting the stretch of his
nails coming up over the edges of his frores, | realize it a as if he was trying to for clown but just couldn’t quite
make the Eal evolution. Was that his plan all along? To getalone and then kill me?
it couldn't have been, because Domonic was sure Michael was human
the war until he got on this jachtend Demonic drove a healthy dase of fear into blood
Maybe that was what did it. Michael's fear of losing Le
Could it be that emotions are that powerfully connected to a shifter’s transformation?
Probably
Thinking about the way my mother looked before she died - her skin nearly trasalarms. My mind tracks back to
those nights that | heard her swearing in pain and | wonder was this what she was crying about back then? Was
she suffering through half-shift the way Michael seemed to be?
Marus said my mom was too old to hike the change, but could it be there was a different reason altogether?
Maybe speople can make the change and speople can’t
kty mom was healthy before Mucus calone. She was Bt and fall of life prior to ham tainting our lives.
Staybet don’t have so much to do with age, but more to do with genetics. | wonder... was Mé@ngun ham a
panther shifter or did the good doctor change him into what he is the way he did Lee,
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Chapter Forty
Because if Marcus was bom a shitter it would make sense that his son her to possess the gene.
of genetic inclination toward the case. And by whatever meaton Michael did
Taking one last look at Michaels corpse, | step away from him and back into the siting room. Heading straight for
the bar | barely notice Korda as the kitchen with a large trash bag in hand.
I wonder what he did with the head
| shiver and pour myself a tall shot of tequila. Toing it back without hesitation, | share through the fruit bowl in
search of a fire, fest in case | need another
shot.
“Pour one fortoo,” Koda’s voice waves into my thoughts,
Glancing up, | see he’s still not dressed, however his magnificent chest is washed ofood and his hands are clean
as well.
1 nod and slice into the lime, then pour three more shots. Two for you and one for me,” | say, doing my best to
keep my eyes from mode
Knocking it back, | watch him do the same. One after the other he knocks them back, yet he leaves the lime
slices untouched
Damn these men. All of them.
“Can you, maybe, put sclothes on?” | ask timidly.
Koda laughs then disappears back into the kitchen Witching him mop up the blood
the flour like it’s nothing but a gallon of spilled milk, | realize this is not the
first tsomething like this has happened. He and the rest of Domonic’s crew are us a little too casual about
death.
Michael's headless body is still in
there. Probably on the ground
blocking the rider. yepce more)
HERieY ouvin! hug, but where it
going after that? In the ocean? In the
fridge? Or maybe Koda hasn't bagged
him up at all. Maybe he’s going to
chop him into tiny pieces first. The
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“Stop it.” | hiss at myself, “You're losing it.”
“No worries,” Koda says with a wink. | put the body in the induftrial treener. Everything in the fridge is still good
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmto eat.”
| shake my head, clamping my
by yes shut
1. c. No don Jacking think so.
When | reopen them, Roda i bagging up the map and bucket. The shift of air sends alt of bleach in my direction.
“All good?” | say, my eyes falling toward the front of his boxers.
He catches my eye, then laughs. “Yeah | go and get dressed now. Wouldn't want you to tell Domenic about how
you had to watch my shit swing back and forth while | mapped.”
“Why did you?” | ask, my tongue loose from the liquet. “Why the fuck did you get nad to kill and then clean up
the new?
He chuckles. “I didn't want to ruin the
only clothes | brought with my, Sol
took the ay Now) $h ‘put them
bek'on and you can stop wishing it
we hit you were mated to.” The
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“As ift" | snicker my denial before my
laughter dies in my throat, my brain
catching on 19 whavbéjusEsald.
“Wait! pe | step up to his chest
and glare “What do you mean —
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