The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

Chapter Fifty-Four

DRAVEN

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Oh my God.

‘Driven?’ | hear Emily shout down the stain. What's going on?

| open my mouth and get ready to scream for her to lock herself in when a muddy hand clamps meer my mouth

and something hand and wet pushes against my back.

1 begin to strazzle, a pair of naked rock solid arms caroundfrom the back and Leo’s deep, deadly voice

sounds in my car.

“Uh-uh-uh,” he says. “Do not do it. If you do, | un upstairs and finish that bitch of Tell her you're fine. Tell her to

stay up thereke heat of his dagusting breath wafting over the skin of my neck.

| shake my head no and he squeezesso tight | feel like my ribs are about to crack

Draven Emily's voice again.

Leo chackles, “No

Leo chackles, “Now, you have one of two choices. You can cwithwillingly? del can knock you out, kill

her, then carry you out to my boat. What's it going to

I nod, | don’t really have a choice. Im just going to wait until we're far enough away from the house then, |

stream for Quinn. | know there's nothing else that i can do. | have to do as he says. | have no doubt he’ll do

exactly as promised if | don. He lifts his hand.

Tm trie 1 shout, wineing at the shakiness of my voice. Tim coming back up?” | yell

moans his approval, his tongue gliding over the side of my throat and he places he hand back over my mouth. |

have been waiting so long to have you.”

He releesand | think he’s going to tumaround, but that’s not what happens Instead, | feel his hands go

up under my hair and slid, over my neck. Then there's a sharp pain that feels like he just stuck his nail inside of

my jugular, and that’s it. | crumple into a sea of blackness.

i

DOMONIC

We are nearly on top of the creature in the trees when it suddenly drops from the sky and lands at our feet

shaking the ground with a force that should have toldit was dead weight. | pounce without looking at first,

thinking for sure that it’s Lee, but | cup short when | hear Koda shout behind me.

“Quinn!” He screams and | spin in the air to switch my trajectory and cup next to Quinn’s naked, injured

body.

| shift back into myself and lean down toward his face, placing a finger over his throat. | search for a pulse. It's

weak, but it’s there and I sigh in relief. The copper Lng of blood hits my nostrils and | wince as | realize Quinn was

the creature in the . It’s still hard to see with all the fog, but | can scent where the blood is coming from and |

reach out for his torn, noting a long gash across his abdomen,

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“Shit!” For a moment | don’t know what to do. “We need to get him in the house!”

Koda nods and the two of us lift him, scanning the trees around us the entire time. When we reach the front

porch we realize the electricity has gone out.

to open it in from the inside.

“Son-of-a-bitch“” | scream as | begin pounding on the door, With electricity out, the only way to op

“Open up!” | scream, still pounding on the door.

| don’t want to scream Draven’s njust at the off chance that Leo doesn’t know she’s here. Even though I'm

positive he does. But hers is not the face that pops” up at the bottom of the stain. Instead it is srandom girl

with pale white-bland hair.

“Emily! Open the door Rodi shouts.

She nods, her eyes Baring wide as she takes in the three naked males on the doonte As she opens the door she

cries out, “Quinn??”

We stumble inside and drop Quinn on the couch just as he starts to regain conscious. It is then that | notice the

backdoor is ajar and the smell of panther is Heary in the house. | spin around my eyes going straight for Emily

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Is it coming from her?

“Where's Draven?” She asks. “She was supposed to be on her way back upstairs! Where

“The back door,” Koda hisses. “How the fuck?”

Without another thought | rip across the room and slam Emily against the wall. “What are you? | hit. Now that I'm

next to her, i

over you!”

with what Her hands so straight to where my knuckles are wapped around her throat T | don’t know what you ne

“Draven!?” | shout, knowing in my heart and soul that she isn’t in the house. She's not here? And this bitch

knows

out,

Emily's pupils dilate and she screams bloody murder, clamoring and struggling, trying to get out of my grip.

“Let her go Koda snaps, tearingaway from the bitch. She’s not one of them.”

| glare at Koda. “She smells like one

Roda shakes his head, his body trembling with anger as he presses Emily behind his back, “Emily, go up to my

room and stay there.”

is he? Emily cries, clutching at Roda’s back.

| grow at her, starling and shoving Koda so hard that his body knocks Emily onto her ass. “Why does she smell

like him

Koda’s body tenses, his eyes glowering. But it’s not him that answer my question. It's Quin

For the sreason Dr Judit en her, Quinn pups out, and my anger for Emily dies a swift death.

“Fuck, I hiss, my eyes meeting Kodas apologetically

-“Yeah,” Koda says, with a slight pol

1 squint at him quizzically, but then | realize, | do not have the tto be standing around here trying to figure

him out. Draven is not here.

A tremor of fear and lonel

longing so deep that | nearly drop to my knees rips into my throat, pushingtoward the verge of panic.

“Draven?” | shout and start up the steps to search for her.

Quinn's voor stopsagain, as he sits up on the sola. “She’s gone!” He yells and | freeze.

“What?” This racing back down the stairs with inhuman speed and ignoring the frightened mewls coming from

Emily at Koda’s back. “How? Whe

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“Leo?” Emily’s voice comes out a frightened gasp. “What? You guys know Leo?” She whimper.

B-I don't hear nor care about

anything else as | shift right there in

the living room and are out the back

door. Ties and rocks whit SEITE

ever run fn my life) Bfadhds

Ee Beneath my heavy paws as

| race as close to the shoreline as

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a thick as it is. The mist is too heavy

forto travel through this speed. |

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| have to get to her now!

If Leo manages to escape with her

before | reach the shoreline where his

boat was anchored, we willbe, m

monde pete witiolt Chere,

Thelthof us have to call one of

the others to pick us up or swim

fifty—five miles to the mainland to

grab a boat. Because | highly doube

Levri heading back to Port Orchard

catch up with him. manages to get away. No. He'll be heading out to sea. Farther out into the open or where it wil

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I'm two miles from where we so the boat docked when | hear his engine start and

| throw my head back and hod as

He's getting away!

heart nearly explodes with fear.

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