Buried in a stack of hundreds of papers, Gabe looked around for the document he needed for the financial statement on the contract he would be mailing back to the German ambassador, but it was nowhere to be found. He shook his head unconsciously tapping his pen, and then he slammed it against the desk, then he cursed. “Dammit.” He sighed. “How the hell am I supposed to find something here in the midst of all this chaos?” He asked no one in particular. “Maybe I should have allowed Cody to come in today as he suggested.” He said, referring to one of his workers. Standing up, he began to look for it one after the other and after several minutes of carefully searching for it, he realized that it wasn’t there at all. He had been working for a few days and he didn’t realize something important was missing. “Damn.” He picked the receiver of the office phone from its cradle and dialed Dean's number. It must be in his office. Perhaps, he had left it there with him the last time he went the

When the door opened and Alex turned to look at Gabe, all she could feel was a sense of Déjà vu. She remembered the first time she had set her eyes on him and he owned the door to her. She was drenched like this time and he was standing all dried up, warm and handsome like now. He must be so surprised to see her because he asked what she was doing there, then as if he thought better of it, he asked her to come inside. She shook her head as he grabbed her wrist to pull her, her body reacting immediately to him touching her. After the back and forth argument gent about going inside, she entered and he closed the door. "You shouldn’t have come if you couldn’t find an umbrella to use. People your age catch a cold as well, you know.” He said as she stood there in those clothes.He was grumpy, she could tell, but she was not about to say anything or argue with him. She wanted to tell him that the rain hadn’t started this much when she left the mansion to come here and that it was partly

Not sure of how long he had been so engrossed in work, he heard the phone ring, but he before he could pick it up, it stopped ringing. He would have assumed that it has stopped ringing if he didn’t hear the click that indicated that it had been picked up anyway. He wondered who it was, and picked the receiver up anyway. “I would like to speak with Gabe.” He heard Beverly's voice and he scrambled up from his chair. What the hell was he doing calling him here in the guest house as if she knew that this was where he was, but knowing that she might have called the mansion and when she didn’t hear a response, decided to call here. He heard Alex sigh and said. “Okay, I’ll go get him for you, but what should I tell him your name is?” he wasn’t sure what was on her mind, but he could tell that she didn’t like how Beverly had asked about him in that manner. He wished he could see inside her head to know what she was thinking. She was probably thinking that something was going on between th

Before this turned into mating with her because he couldn’t hold off, he pulled away, sighing as he did. Alex missed him as soon as he did, so she tried to pull back and he pushed further away, getting away from where he stood to stand several feet away from her. Confused as to why he was suddenly cold towards her, she jumped off the stairs to walk to him, but he took another step back, making Alex shake her head with a bite of her bottom lip. She smiled, but it didn’t reach her face. “What the fuck is this, Gabe? Do you get off teasing me?” she asked. “That’s not what I’m doing, okay, I’m only trying to cool off.” He said. “Oh, but what’s the need when I’ve started to kiss you back? You can’t say you don’t want me, because I already know you do, so what’s the problem?” she asked. She decided she was going to be bold and face this head on. She had already thrown out everything her best friend told her. She just couldn’t do the dance between them anymore. She was tired of it and de

The smiles started to slip off, and they began to look at one another again. It was time to discuss this and lay out all of the options they have. It was the elder than was sitting on Gabe's right hand that spoke first. “What did you just say alpha?” She asked. She was an old woman who had lived two centuries, but she looked only a day or two over sixty. She had an aura of peace going about her, and Gabe hoped that the peace will be used to full advantage tonight. “I said that I’ve found my mate, and she’s human.” He repeated as calmly as he could. These people were, after all, not his enemies but his friends and family. Another elder sitting beside the peaceful woman spoke. “But are you sure about that?” he asked. He had also lived for about two centuries and he was in his fifties in real life. He was the youngest of the elders. Gabe nodded his head, he couldn’t be more sure of anything in his entire life, and he told them so. There was silence as they all looked at one another