<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><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><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><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><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>