The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

The Pack: Rule Number 1- No Mates

Chapter Sixty

Ja Emily and | cdown the stairs the unmistakable sound of two people arguing the up the ball. | can hear

multiple voices shouting profanities that bonne off the glass walls to rest between my ears, triggering a sense of

urgency inthat ignites something i to maternal instinct in my blood.

The

diting? 1 ask, glancing hark at Emily before running down the renting steps to cto a screeching halt inside

the living room

Quinn on his back and Roda on top of him slamming his Est

Quinn's face. Bart, Grant, and Lief are standing back and watching like

things idions. Why aren't they stopping this? Fury age inside ofat the sight. This is not night. This has to stop

The peto of fear that falls from Emily's lips is what does it for me.

| shout so loudly the sound rings through my ears. “Stop

that NOW!

To my surprise

« of them Eierses. Even Koda whose rig is in d swing-stops to stumble back and away from Quinn on the

ground

“Base racks into a grande ashes toward me, his arms open for a lug

I hold my hand out, stopping him mid-stri

pping over broken pieces of the coffee table, | make my way toward

at the center of this cus

Cueto tellwhat the fuck is going on here? Is “Since when are you both sole?

Koda is seething, but he says nothing as he exits the room, storming out the back doer and into the storm

“Where the hell is he going?” 1 scap.

Quinn, his lips bloody and his face all as my own, gins atfrom the ground. “Just a little brotherly love, my

queen

“Senously?” | hiss. “You better get up to your room and stay there so that you don’t have to explain yourself yes

again,” | say, throwing my head back in a gesture toward Emily

“Right,” he says softly before lifting himself effortlessly off the floor and onto the

“Draven” Bart's voice sounds behindand | finally turn around so that he can envelopein his arms. Tm so

glad you're okay. | wish | had been allowed to deal with the bastard myself. But, you know how it in."

| chuckle. I don’t actually, but Im learning.”

“You certainly took charge of their litle boxing match li

Luna should,” Limbles and eye him warily.

“hes she did,” Grant says with approval, his smile widening as he bows.

“Okay,” | say somewhat quizzically, my gaze traveling over the room. “Should | ask what they were Echting

about or do | even want to know?

“NodelLief states and taking a seat on the sofa and searching for the remote control for the flatscreen

“Uh-uh, no,” | say, swatting him on the back of his head. “You guys are going to get this mess up first and Emily

and | are going to set the table and serve the stew

“Teily” Grant seyn, his dark twinkling. So nice to meet you. You are lovely.”

1 grin at Emily, but | notice the hardly paying attention. Her eyes seem fixed on the backdoor, her und stuck at

least | think-ep the wood that walked out of it

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By the t| make it back to the island it’s well after midnight. One glance up toward the house on the hill and |

know Draven is still awake. My bedroom light is on and two feminine shadows play over the shades. | smile to

myself as | realize | know tactly which one is Draven and which one is Emily.

Draven'’s not only curvier than the blond, but there isn’t a world out there in which wouldn't recognize the sexy

the yacht. I'm getting hard.

way the m

moves. Just watching from down here on

Luckily the storm let up an hour ago. Right at the smoment that Gryffin and | cto an express

understanding. | gave him the information | had on the good doctor and Marcus and he allowedto recruit

Tadoes for guard duty tomorrow night. She could be arriving by boat tomorrow afternoon and would remain on

the island to watch over the girls while the rest of us went back to Port Orchard for the night.

It isn’t until | clinch from the yacht that | realize Koda is sitting at the edge of the wharf, a lit cigarette in his

mouth as he stares hauntingly out into the ocean.

“Did you get my message? | ask. Referring to the group text | sent to all pack members save for him. His old

phone and my old phone were lost at sea with our three-hundred-thousand dollar powerboat. The moment |

picked up a new phone | sent out the text.

He nods. “Grant told me. Did you bringa new phone?

“Yup,” | say, tossing the device to him over my shoulder as | tie up the boat. “I heard you got into with Quinn,” |

remark, coming to stand behind him, my eyes scanning the open water. The waves are calm. Not even a wisp of

fog remains. Strange, but preferable. “Care to tellwhy?”

He doesn’t answer me, which says enough. He doesn’t want to talk about it and | dont particularly feel like

prying tonight. Not after everything that happened back

at the station.

“Draven asked Bartlett to hire Emily at the bar,” he says softly, taking another hit of his cigarette.

“Shit,” [hiss. “What did Bartlett say? No, | hope.”

Koda chuckles. “He can’t tell Draven “no- any more than you can.”

| start to argue, then | realize, what's the point. He may be right. But my plan is to make sure she doesn’t ask to

stay. My plan is to make her want to leave. “She has to po,” | whisper. “You know she does.”

He nods. “Yeah. | know.” Then, “Did you smell anything different in the dungeon?

| shake my head no, still confused about that fact.“Where are you going to sleep tonight? Are you going to give

Emily your room!”

Again he nods. “I'll take the couch.”

| head toward the house slowly, my mind struggling with what I’m going to have to do to get Deaven to leave. As

far as | know, she doesn’t realize that she’s my mate. She doesn’t even know what a mate is and | need to keep

it that way, But tonight, I'm going to lay with her one last tand try to burn the memory of the way it feels to

hold her into the flesh of my arms.

If you mark her, she'll heal faster and be stronger.

| huff at that thought as | enter the dark space of the living room. Marking her would do a number of things for

her as well as for me. It would bond us. Essentially marrying us in the eyes of all shifters. Any wolf that

encountered her after, would know she belonged to an Alpha. It would also alter her chemical make-up. Making

her human body stronger, faster... more dazzling. If that last part is geen possible. She's pretty fucking

incredible already. My mark would also letknow the moment she was in danger. It would granta sort of

sixth sense for what she was feeling. | would know if she were sick, or God forbed, if the were dying

It might keep her that much safer after she leaves.

It won't track her, but | already know where she'll be because I've already arranged a Hace for her to live.

Besides, the carries my scent and in theory, it should carry for up to fifty miles. So should | ever want to see her.

TIl just fly to Miami, track her sent, and watch her from afac

Just that thought is depressing enough to crush into my chest like a knife twisting of the inside of me.

The trick will be getting her to accept the condo as a gift after | push her out. But | have a plan for that too

But the pain that | would experience, at our being apart, would increase tenfold. Or so I've heard.

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But my pain doesn’t matter. | can live

through it. | have to, right? ean

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And that he w she is watching

They mot know about the tiles we made. They must know that Duven in my mated, they have a way to get into

the dungeons.

Oddly enough, there is one other way in, but it's not one we've ever ined.

The last cell, the one that always

stands empty, has Re waththat

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No one but the twelve of un should know about that.

If i didn’t know better. | would suspect one of us. But | do know better so it remains mystery

we are brothers, bonded through our pan. | refuse to believe any one of as did this.

As | reach the third story landing, | smile at the sound of Dave's excited voice. Thanics here!” She says.

Shit Goodnight, Emily yelps

1. watch her from the shadows down the hall as she exits my room and heads for Koda’s without so much at a

glance up

Draven is standing in the doorway, wearing a thin white t-shirt and a sexy smile,

Id rather have a somewhat

connection to her, than to copnegtion

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atall. Ang wheresheldales she's

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s tethered to me, she’ll have a very hard tgetting wet for anyone else.

My heart things in my chest as | make a decision,

| am going to mark her tonight.

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