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<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>PACK RULE #8: NEVER LIE TO YOUR MATE.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>I broke that rule the day I showed up on her doorstep.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>I'm sworn to protect my kind from any kind of threat.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>As a human she thought I was there on friendly business.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Didn't know I meant to take down her shifter boss.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>I didn't know she'd flip my world upside down.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>One whiff of her scent and I was lost. No-found.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>I couldn't leave without her. So I spent the night. Made her fall for me.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>But she doesn't know what I am. What I've done.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>I'm not just a ranch hand-I'm a shifter enforcer.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The clock is ticking before I have to finish the job.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>I must win my mate's heart and claim her before the lies catch up to me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Before she finds out what I am and what I have done.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Or what I will do to keep her safe.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>And mine.</span></p><p></p>