The Pack Rule Number 1 No Mates

Chapter Ninety-Six

After tracking Unity's were though

wd for half an aftermoon we finally lost in the river. Four of us were scouring the opposite shoreline, hoping that korven tud taken her muted upstream to the other side, but so far that they want yielding any results. Koda was frantic, his movements panicked. He a moment to ground himmell, but I wasn't going to be the one to tell him hitting back into my human form at I near the summit of one beny glance around at my brothers to call them to attention.

trop." I say softly. One by one they gather amund me, shifting back into their human Turms. Koda, however, remains as his wolf. Gazing up at the streaming rapids note there seems to be a furning up ahead. As if there in a fork in the ever up top and a second waterfall on the other side of it. They didn't dinh ddann waterfall," I print out. Searching the ground an carefully as I can near the point of the over where we lost her scent, I look for something diffe Espe, rahi indentations, pirn prints. Anything. And that in when I realize. There seems to be a shadow behind the fall. There's a cone up there," I hiss, and Paul, my Beta and longtime best friend cuties...

The can't go into a cane without knowing where it leads. Well, I mean-he

Koča growls, his rumble an unmistakable protest to Pel's local thinking

the eyes of Kodas attentive black wolf-we shouldnt

hat my father might have found out. Den might. She might have information we need." I metodas blazing blue glare with

g away from me to study the water and the rocks, as if looking for the best way to climb in.

We can let him in alone." Quinn says, idling up to me. "I go with him."

and. "Good idea. You go with him, Rainier and Lief climb to the peak and find out where the other waterfall leads. After watching the four of them disappear,

back to the whelp from the market, whose name I still havent bothered to learn, ask him, "Is Blue Ridge near here?"

He sight, exhaustion riding his features. The other side of the mountain. But it's abandoned. It's nothing but ruins."

T

I smile, "You will lead Timmons and Grant to these ruins so that they can see for themselves? I almost mit the flare of fear that I see in the whelps eyes, because De schooled his features swiftly, but catch it. Of course I do. So I push a little. In fact, I think Andrew and Logan should go with you too. Because if you are lying,

the place is still inhabited I will take all four of them to tear you apart the way I want them to."

how be fregnes, his eyes going wide with fear. "You can't do that! Please! There might be people there, I don't know. Not everyone wanted to be absorbed by Red Welf

not my felt if they are still three?"

But you said it was in ruins, les actes "Ruins don't house people, little wolf. You re lying

The whelp ghions, James reference to the fact that his wolf is half the size of one of our nating "My name is Lenny! But, the. So there are people there. But they are rogues son made them that way when he left. He forbade them to join us, leaving them mutilated, to live as they pleased."

thinking the name sounds somewhat familiar. "One of the gatekeepers? What the fuck does he have to do with anyone going rogue? And why in

fuck would he leave people mutilated? Hex post a Gamma. A soldier. Besides, I thought the pack disbanded because of a tragedy."

"It was definitely that. But not all people were allowed to recognize it as such." He smirks. Those who rebelled against new leadership were taud. A portion of bone mach for a lifetime of freedom. Jason') Law. Sure, Jason is a Gamma now, but he was nece the Alpha of the Blue Ridge Pack."

Jon's low" I chuckle. "You're bo

tre kidding me.

"he says with a determined shake of his head. "Jason was a great leader. He kept most of the women reminded of their place. Locking his Luna away in a

ter she caused trouble."

at the fuck? Do the council members know of this? I hiss

The whelp nods. One of them does. Councilmen Thomas and Ambassador Gabriel came to visit our pack six years ago. They liked the way lason can things. They said it was the best way for the more powerful wolves to live. With the women as slaves and the men as their masters."

Six years ago? The year before our mothers were murdered. Thomas? Rainier fathers Christ. Rainier's going to kill him for sure. Suddenly I'm grateful that Hartlett insisted he stay behind with Draven, even if he was the one who went her to this God-forsaken place. It's a relief that he's there with her, but one of us is

ing to need to head back to inform my dad of Thomas treachery. He will need to be dealt with the moment we return.

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Chapter Ninety Six

My langs begin to tingle with disput

imes. My

with roll zvalization and the whelp an 1 glar dosen at the little midget, "Waste projd of him, Jason, I of the young wubes who had hoped to bid fe Alpha in my alarmce. Our was Gabriel... could the other have been jason? they for, can barely contain their dispist Plustering a fake smile on my face and stretch to my full height, towering over Glancing mound at my brothers I nee

anage the pack?" the food at my feet, Tell me more. What other ways did

The idiot grins, his eyes growing excitul first. Sentertimes, if the female was lubated.

eigh, he shared her with the his frunte. "How I loved these days, they were the best." lle sconels at

That was found, be tested. She was never allowed to be marked unless he had her

ledore returning her to her mate for marking" He sighs, as if those memories "But now that you're here, I pressing he will not be made Beta as promised;"

1. be. You can fucking count on that."

"What_the_fuck," Pad says incomplete awe, "This is crazy. Im the Beta you little girl and ne, he won't be

Grating the whelp by his neck, I lifted hi

the ground. the legs fail as le gargles helplessly in my grip. His eyes hulged in warning of his urge to shift. "Lenny, where is Emily? You are going to tell me where she is and who book her, and you are going to tell me now, I surl as my class rip from my hands. "And I am going to cut you apart a piece at a time, until you dea,

sharp claws down his chest. Opening him up deep enough to

Lenny strranis, his asscles expanding as he begins to change, but before he can be my reveal his interior. "I wouldn't recommend roughing right now Lenny, I say. Nevermind shifting. Doing rither is likely to force your insides out."-

That's when we hear it. The seven of us who are still at the river and I drop Ley in a heap on the floor as the rest of a collectively turn toward the sound. A crackle of brush, a carefully placed step that sounds in the deep dark of the forest, Suneone is watching. We see him just before he speaks.

"Hose original," a voice sounds from the edge of the woods. "I've seen that done in by your father. He did it to mine."

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