My Second Chance Alpha Mate
Chapter 8

(Jeffrey)

I woke up early to help Lita with the kitchen. Last night she wasn’t feeling too well. I told her I would take her to the hospital or ask the Alpha so the doctor can come and see her, but she declined. She said it was just a small headache and a little shortness of breath, but that she was fine. Plus she didn’t want to worry Yashira after what happened with her parents.

I walk back to the kitchen after taking an order and see Lita leaning against the counter with her eyes closed. I walk closer to her and k**s the top of her head.

“You need to sit. I’m sure Yashira wouldn’t mind coming in to work early” I tell her.

“No, I gave her the day off. She hasn’t had a day off since she came here and from what I heard she was going to meet your Alpha. Jake and Sara came yesterday to invite her. Maybe he wants to thank her for saving his son” she says. I only hope that it was to thank her because Gabriel was not to fond of humans after what happened to his first mate.

“Okay but take a seat. Leon and I will deal with the costumers” I tell her and get the order ready. Before I go back to the diner and serve the order when I heard a bunch of noise coming from the kitchen. Costumers looked wanting to know what the noise was.

“Sorry about that. I’m going to check what’s going on” I apologized and ran to the kitchen only to replace Lita on the floor and a gash on her forehead. I quickly grab the phone and dial 9-1-1. I wanted to call Yashira, but I needed to make sure her grandma is taken to the hospital first. Fear took over my body. I just asked her to be my mate officially and she accepted. I can’t lose Lita. I don’t think my wolf and I will be able to survive it.

(Yashira)

Jake, Sara, and I have just arrived at Tristan’s dad’s house. They explained to me that this is a small community and they like their privacy, so they made this small community deep in the woods. The massive white house in front of me is four stories high. It has a garden on both sides of the house.

Some people come out of the house and stare at me while others wave as they pass by us. I also catch a few of them bowing their heads to Jake and Sara. I close my eyes for a second and take a deep breath.

“What do you think?” Sara asks. I open my eyes and look at her.

‘It’s beautiful. I love the fresh air out here and the fact that you have this place in the middle of the woods… I think it’s perfect’ I signed as I grin. Jake and Sara grin as well.

“We’re glad you like it. We don’t get many visitors” Jake says. The front door opens again, and a man steps out. He’s about 6’6, brown curls, he has a sharp jawline, perfect full lips, golden eyes, his nose looks like it had been broken a few times, but it still made him look incredibly handsome. His shoulders are wide, and I can see the muscles under his tight shirt. This man is beautiful- no scratch that he’s perfect. It’s like God carved him from marvel and placed him on earth. It should be a sin to look this perfect. Tristan looks just like him.

He stood there looking at me and I began to feel nervous. I looked at Jake and Sara just in case I was supposed to do something, but they just stood there. I could feel the powers radiating in waves out of this god like of a man.

“Yaya” I heard Tristan squeal and he runs down the stairs. I smiled widely and kneel as he lunges his little body at me. I pull back and look at Tristan who also had a huge smile on his face. He runs the tips of his finger from my forehead down my face.

“Pwetty” he says with a cute little blush. I run the tips of my fingertips from his forehead down his face gently and mouth ‘Handsome’ making him giggle.

‘How are you this morning?’ I sign while mouthing the words slowly for him.

“Good” he states proudly.

‘Perfect that’s all that matters’ I sign mouthing the words again slowly. I hear someone clear their throat and I look up to see the God like of a man standing at the bottom step.

“Welcome to my home. My name is Gabriel” he introduces extending his hand. I take it and shake his hand silently gasping at the shock of electricity. I look at Jake and Sara who’s eyes were as wide as saucers. Like if she just realized something I didn’t know.

“You already know Tristan, my best friend Jake and his girlfriend Sara” Gabriel says as I let go of his hand.

‘I’m Yashira and yes I know them. They are great friends. I want to thank you for inviting me into your home. You also have a wonderful little boy’ I sign making him smile as he looks down at his son.

“Thank you. It’s a rare sight to see him getting so… comfortable with someone who is not from our community” he says. This was the second time I heard that since I arrived in this town.

“My love, lunch is ready- oh is the freak” Ashely says as she clings to Gabriel like her life depended on it.

“I believe you already know my girlfriend Ashley?” Gabriel says but it comes out more like a question. I don’t reply I just look at Ashley who has a stupid smirk on her face and I would love nothing than to punch that smirk off her face. I felt this weird feeling inside me. It felt like an electricity swirling inside my body as the anger in me intensified and the feeling of knocking Ashley’s teeth down her throat got stronger.

“Shall we go inside and have lunch?” Gabriel asks looking at me in the eyes making the anger I was feeling leave my body as well as the electricity I felt swirling inside my body.

‘After you’ I sign and follow him with Tristan holding my hand. If the house outside was beautiful the inside is even more beautiful. The whole bottom floor is made out of marvel. The black furniture went perfectly with the white walls and light grey curtains. There’s a seventy-inch tv mounted on the wall. We passed what looked like a recreation room. We enter the dining room and I just stood there not knowing where to sit.

“You can come and sit here Yashira” Sara smiles. I look at Gabriel before going to sit next to Sara.

“I sit with Yaya” Tristan says.

“Son-”

“Leave him baby. He just wants to make the freak feel welcome” Ashley purrs at Gabriel and then looks at me with an evil glint in her eyes.

“Ashley enough with the name calling” Gabriel says, and Ashley arches an eyebrow but gives him a nod. I help Tristan sit beside me. He looks up at me and smiles making me chuckle silently.

“Yashira I want you to meet two more friends of ours. This is Noah and his girlfriend Rhonda. Guys this is Yashira” Sara introduces.

“Welcome” Noah and Rhonda say in unison before Rhonda giggles.

‘Thank you’ I signed.

“So Yashira” I shiver when Gabriel said my name. I liked the way my named rolled off his tongue “how do you like living and working for your grandma so far?”

‘I like it and the costumers don’t judge because I don’t speak. In fact they still ask for me to take their orders and believe it or not we joke around’ I smile as I sign.

“That’s good. So where did you come from?” he asks.

‘Puerto Rico’ I sign.

“Oh, wow, beautiful island. Do you miss it?” he questions.

‘I do’ I admitted. The food was served, and it was spaghetti. Tristan clapped his hands and began to eat.

“He loves spaghetti” Sara chuckles.

‘I see’ I smile. I start to eat, and I can feel someone is looking at me. I look to see it was Gabriel. I look away as I feel my face heating up.

“I heard there was a problem at your grandma’s diner the other day. Would you care to let me know what happened?” Gabriel asks and I felt Sara stiffen beside me.

‘Everything is handle, Mr. Gabriel’ I signed.

“I would like to know what happened and please just Gabriel” I nod and take a deep breath. I see Ahley smirk as she reaches out for Gabriel’s hand. For some reason this makes me angry which it shouldn’t because I just met him and he’s nothing of mine.

‘Your… girlfriend came into the diner with Tristan. As soon as they came in she went to her usual booth and didn’t pay attention to Tristan. I went and gave him a piece of cake with a cup of milk. I continued working since we were short staffed. When I turn to take the dirty dishes to the kitchen I noticed Tristan was not in the diner and your girlfriend was still typing on her phone. From the corner of my eyes I saw something move outside when I turned my head I saw it was Tristan…’ my heart starts pounding in my chest as I remember that horrible night. I ran my fingers through Tristan’s brown hair making him look at me and smile. That night could’ve ended really bad.

‘I dropped everything I was holding and ran outside. I saw the headlights when I lunged for your son turning my body so I would receive the whole impact’ I admitted. He stays looking at me as if trying to figure out if I was lying or not.

“Is that how you got that cut on your hairline?” he asks, and I look down before nodding my head. I see Tristan trying to reach for his juice and I help him. When he moves his cup from his face I see he’s a mess. He has spaghetti sauce all over his face. I couldn’t help but smile at him.

“Tristan can’t you eat right for once?” Ashley growls making Tristan flinch. She literally growled at a child.

‘Don’t yell at him or growl. He is just a child and children are meant to be messy. And why are you growling? Do you think you are a dog?’ I signed angrily. The girl beside Ashley gasped and leaned over to her I bet it was to tell her what I said but I didn’t care. It pissed me off the way she was acting towards Tristan. He is just a three-year-old child. I turned and cleaned Tristan as he climbed on my lap hiding his face on my chest. During the whole time Gabriel was just watching what was going on.

“Did you just call me a dog?” Ashley snarled and I swear I saw her hazel eyes flash black again.

“I heard you are good fighting” Gabriel says, and I knew Sara and Jake had said something about the other day when they came to the house and saw me hitting the punching bag. That day I had woken up in a cold sweat. I dreamed I saw the accident as if I had been there myself and I swear I heard my parents scream as the car burned. I felt angry and all I wanted to do was take my anger out on something so I used Jeffrey’s punching bag.

‘I can hold my own’ I sign.

“Then why don’t you show us what you have. You can go against Ashley in a friendly hand to hand combat” the girl beside Ashley said. For some reason the word friendly didn’t sound so friendly coming from her.

“I don’t think-”

“That’s perfect. I will meet you at the training grounds” Ashley says interrupting Sara. Ashley gets up and places her hands on Gabriel’s face before kissing him. I turn my head not wanting to see it. Why does it bother and hurts me seeing them like that? I push my plate away from me since I lost my appetite.

“Yashira, you don’t have to do this” Sara says.

‘It’s just a friendly hand to hand combat. What could go wrong?’ I asked signing. Sara and Jake look at each other. Good thing I came in sneakers and some jeggings (jean leggings).