Chapter 24: Someone To Stay
[GABE]
"What about me?" Gabe asked defeatedly and in a low whisper, as he looked at his mate. This was worse than any punishment Gabe had ever experienced, yet even as Tamiko heard him, the orphan ignored him.
Maybe Tamiko was cruel, but surely Gabe didn't think that pulling the weakness card would work on the man he had tortured barely hours ago, right?
Maybe it would have, if Tamiko was the normal kind of mate, but then the lycan had more pressing issues than a mate who needed his attention and who didn't mean shit to him.
"You're staying with me here. Besides, Danny said to wait for him," Galya said excitedly, even though she had a feeling that the question that Gabriel had posed wasn't for her.
Then again, she didn't want to start their relationship with so many questions. Whatever Gabe did was not her business, her only business was the job that they had both been roped into by the alpha.
"Alright then. In that case, I bet the outcast can entertain us, no?" Gabe asked, even though he was doing this because he wanted to see more of Tamiko. This was his only chance to openly stare at his mate without appearing as a creep.
He wanted to know what Tamiko liked, what he didn't like other than Gabriel, what made him happy and how his days were. Gabe had a sudden interest to learn more and more about his mate and he knew it wasn't going to be a walk in the park anyway.
"But sire... I'm sorry, I have to clean the mating hall and sweep the assembly square before dusk," Tamiko said, his voice going back to the normal voice he was used to talking with, even before he had known that the bastard here was his mate.