The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates Chapter Two Hundred Fifty-One ROSE The moment I say it, he curses, his eyes glittering as they watch me. "This is going to hurt at first, Princess. There's no getting around that part.

I open my mouth to tell him that it's okay, that I can take it, but he thrusts forward and all of my words disappear. A sharp tearing pain forces a scream out ofthat he swallows behind his lips. I can feel him. All of him. He's throbbing inside ofand I feel so full as I gasp for breath behind his lips. "Oh God," I cry softly, as my body adjusts to him.

That's it. I'm not a virgin anymore.

Do all first kisses end up this way? "Shh," he murmurs, rocking his hips side to side. "It's okay baby girl. I've got you. The pain shouldn't Jast long. At least I hope it won't, because I'm dying to get moving inside of you." I moan, realizing that the pain is almost gone already. My hips jerk upward, searching for release, and my eyes glaze over as they cling to his powerful shoulders and trace over the tattoos on his chest. He's so perfect. Can someone like him really want me? Want to put babies in me? 'I've already marked you as mine. And you will remain mine.' His words hauntin such a way that they have my thoughts spiraling out of control. Something about what he said should disturb me, but instead it makesthat much more aroused.

"Move," I command him. "Please move," I moan, leaning up to trap his bottom lip between my teeth.

He growls, not missing a beat as he begins to slowly stroke in and out of me, causing my pleasure center to swell and rise. I can't stop the shouts of ecstasy from erupting from my mouth as he increases his pace and his groans join my outcry of rapture.

"I'm going to explode baby," he groans into my mouth. "Cwith me.

That's all it takes for stars to light behind my eyes and my muscles to clench around him. His mouth falls toward my neck and for a moment I think I feel something sharp caress my pulse point and sendinto overdrive. He pounds intoand I lose myself into oblivion, forgetting everything that ever cbefore him in that instant. All my worries, all my fears, they disappear as I feel him latch onto my neck with a growl and a sharp nip of his teeth pushestoward blackness.

"I think I love you," I whisper like a fool, as I fall into the deep and all I can feel are his lips on my neck. "Thank fucking God," he murmurs as I pass out.

CANE There's a light behind my eyes as I wake, but it's not quite morning and can feel that. I can also feel the press of a very warm, very feminine body against mine and I know without thinking who it is.

Gayle.

I can smell her. The potently fresh scent of her invades my senses and realize we must have fallen asleep together somewhere.

But where? Does she know where she is? That she's here with me? Without opening my eyes, I stretch my arms around her, pulling her in close and blanketing myself in her softness before my mind is well 1/4 Chapter Two Hundred Fifty-One and truly awake. Id be happy just to stay here forever. With her in my arms.

But we can't have that. When Roman returns and she's here...

Roman...

Shit! 1 jerk upright, panting heavily as all of my memories ccrashing back. Holy fucking shit, where am I? The last thing that I remember is being in the jeep, sitting next to Gayle. Right before she and my sister went over the edge of the cliff. But they didn't though, and Although I can't rightly remember why at this particular moment, I realize that shouldn't be my last memory.

But it is.

I can still remember the fear I felt for them both as Gayle erupted into the front seat and began to steer the jeep in the wrong direction. Then...I must have reached for her. I must have...

Why aren't I dead? Didn't I die on the floor in Roman's house? "Holy fuck. I feel so strange. But not in a bad way. In a...good way.

A very odd I suddenly have the urge to run and climb trees type of way.

I should be dead! A glance down at my torso - which I can remember being ripped open to the point of no return - tellsthat I've somehow healed. Somehow...

I can remember Roman tellingabout how wolf shifter mates could heal their human counterparts and I suddenly know without a doubt that that must be what has happened. Did she really? Did she get there in tto save my life? But no. That doesn't feel right either. Because suddenly, I can remember seeing her crying over me. I can remember the ache of pain and longing as I watched her cto pieces over my dead body. The rage that ensued when I tried to, but couldn't touch her. When I realized she couldn't heartell her that I would always love her. That I was sorry for shooting her, sorry for not listening to her. That I wouldn't be moving on without her.

I'd wanted so badly for her to feel my arms around her, but she couldn't. She couldn't feel them and she didn't know. I'd watched her bitefrantically. Watched her pass out from the struggle and I'd followed her when her brother put her into the back of the jeep, petting her head the entire time. Oblivious to anything and everything but her for that entire horrible, achingly helpless hour before she woke.

I can remember her screaming and crying for me. I was there for all of it.

But when they almost went off that cliff, I think I dove inside of her. It was odd and energy depleting. So depleting that what happened after falls into the dark recesses of my mind like an afterthought.

But I must have saved them. Because now we're here.

Or maybe, it's just her and in my refusal to leave her I've somehow concocted a heightened sense of smell and sight.

Maybe I'm still gone and I simply wrapped my spirit around her as she slept.

Taking a deep breath, I have a good look around. My surroundings are way different than I expected them to be. It's still dark out, and the room aroundis draped in shadow, but for sreason I can see every single detail about this place. Everything. And...I can see it well.

"What the fuck? I hiss to myself.

2/4 Chapter Two Hundred Fifty-One When I knew I was dead, it was like everything aroundwas cast in sort of glowing for. The trees were blurry, the cars and people, Murry. The only thing that wasn't was Gayle, But now...now I can see every single thing too clearly.

Her quick gasp of breath draws my attention downward and what I see has my blood heating and my heart pumping wildly. Gayle is swake, My heart? What? And...she's looking at me. Like of me, 'You're awake!' she says and for a moment I'm looking around for someone else. But then she says, "Cane?"

'Gayle?" And that's my voice, Mine, Not the soundless whisper from before when I was apologizing to her. When she wept over my dead body and no matter how hard I tried, she couldn't hear me, "How?" "You're awake!" She shrieks and I smile.

"Yes. I think I am."

It worked! It worked!" she yells m jumping out of the bed and over my body in one movement. I have to go and get your sister! She's asleep downstairs! She refused to leave until your we knew if it worked!” "Wait! I shout out. "Wait a minute, kitty cat. What are you talking about? If what worked?" She freezes, her full glorious lips, twisting into the cutest of guilty smiles. "How do you feel?" she asks, carefully, walking up toand dragging one hand through my hair.

Closing my eyes, I purr, loving the way her hand feels on my head. Adoring the way she scratches the top of it. "Fuck that's nice," I say, purring again.

Purring? Holy shit? What the fuck? My eyes pop open to meet hers.

'It worked, she whispers, tears in her eyes. "You're changed." "Changed?" "You have to promise not to be mad,' she says softly, scratching my head again.

'I couldn't be mad at you kitty cat. You have no idea how I my words cut off as tears climb into my throat. Just the memory of the pain. of not being able to hold her has taken my mouth hostage.

"I know," she coos. 'I almost lost you. We almost lost each other. But now, everything is right. Absolutely everything. And you - you're changed I grin, grabbing her hand in mine and kissing it, then purring when I realize I can actually feel her now. "Changed?" "You're a lion shifter now Cane." Watt...what?

Author's Note I realize I promised a triple update and I will adhere to that.. just not yet. I have a pridr.engagement that will takeaway from my laptop for the next 6 hours, but the moment I return I will be on