Tattooed Mates

Chapter 8

Here is the Chapter that I promised you guys! this chapter is unedited so please be gentle with the comments about my spelling and grammar. 

Once I shut the door if the bathroom I leaned against the door and took a deep breath, as I let out the breath I walked over to the counter and put my clothes on it, then I faced the shower, I went over to it figured out which one was the hot water and which one was the cold water, once I got that figured out I looked around the room, it was much like my room only it had a shower, toilet, sink and a mirror, the floor was tile a beautiful marble color, I stripped out of my clothes and stepped into the shower I wet my hair and just stood under the spray, just letting the water run over my body I sigh and start to shampoo my hair, thinking about the scene earlier on the bathroom counter, "goddess I'm so stupid, he murdered your brother Skyler, don't give in!" I thought, my wolf responded with "he didn't do it, someone else did stop letting your brother's death cloud your judgement of our mate." "Shut up Naomi, he did it" "Believe what you want Skyler, but if he did kill Emmet then how come his scent wasn't anywhere around or on the body" she said with a growl in my mind, I didn't respond I just rinsed my hair and conditioned it twice, I rinsed my hair out and started to wash my body, when I was all squeaky clean I got out and wrapped a towel around my body, and rung out my hair of the extra water and got another towel to use on my hair, once it was secure I got towel dried my body and put the clothes on that where on the counter, I sighed as I unlocked and opened the door, Gabriel wasn't on my bed, but at the computer desk, his frame dwarfed the small desk and chair, he didn't move his eyes from the laptop screen when I walked into the room, I went to where my phone was, sat down on the bed and clicked on the button so the screen showed up, I had a text from Ashley and some Facebook notifications, I ignored the notifications and went to text Ashley back when Gabriel's voice startled me into looking at him, "you're really talented, kind of like your brother was talented at drawing"

I froze, I didn't know what to say, so I said "how did you know that he drew?" he looked at me in the eyes, "I caught him drawing and he showed me some of his portfolio when we were at an Alpha Conference once, they were mostly drawings of wolves in your pack, but I remember one it was of this girl next to her horse with a little kid on the back of the horse, they were dressed in ceremonial clothes, he told me that it was of his siblings at a Halloween parade, his mom took the photo because there was a costume contest and they just won the contest..." his voice trailed off when he seen the tears on my face, I wiped them away and sniffed, "I have the drawing hanging up in my room back home, speaking of my mom should be here within the week to bring me my stuff and to bring Bronco and his things here, do you know anywhere I can board him? Since you know the area better than I do" I said, I watched his face when I said that last part, his face was blank but his eyes held an emotion that I couldn't figure out, he nodded his head, "There's a stable about a ten minute drive from here, I'll take you to it tomorrow." He said as he got up "Thank you" I told him as he walked to the door, he stopped and turned his head "your brother was a good man and he would've made a good Alpha" then he left my room and closed the door with a final click.

I looked at the door, "he defiantly is hiding something, my brother wouldn't have showed his portfolio to anyone, hell it was like pulling teeth when I asked him if I could get the drawing hanging on my wall." I thought with a sigh, I picked up my phone from the bed and looked at the time on it, only 5:00 I though with a sigh, I sat down in the computer chair and turned to my laptop when it showed the lock screen I typed my password and waited for the desktop screen to show up, when it did I opened up the internet and logged on to my college to see if there are any more assignments that the professor put up. There were no new assignments, so I click out of the college and logged on to YouTube, to listen to something while I edited more photos for my class. I was listening to Lazy Masquerade's Native American Horror stories, when I stretched and rolled my head, rubbing the back of my neck as I did so, I sat back and started listening to the story, talking about Skin walkers and about the Navajo nation, I was so into the story that when someone spoke it scared me so badly I almost shifted from fright.

I look over towards my door and find that its Gabriel, "Damnnit Gabriel! You almost made me shift next time knock or cough or something!" I snapped at him trying to get my heart under control, "I said your name three times before you heard me, you of all people should pay more attention to your surroundings, but enough of that, are you ready?" I was confused and it must have shown on my face, "to see the stable?" he prompted, "I thought we were going to see it tomorrow?" "it is tomorrow" he stated, looking at me up and down, my eyes widened then I groaned out "damn, I worked through the night again... ugh let me shower and change real quick." I said getting up from the chair, my knees gave audible cracks as I stood up, and walked over towards the bathroom, 10 minutes later I was showered, dressed and ready to go, as we walked out of my room and down the stairs I braided my long black hair into two braids that I secured with bands, when we went out of the front door my stomach growled loud enough for a few pack members to hear it and they chuckled inside the house, before my stomach stopped growling, Ryan popped out of nowhere with a two breakfast burritos and a travel mug of what smelled like coffee he handed me the burritos and coffee with a whispered "feed the monster before it feeds on you." And a wink then turned around and walked back to the house. I just stared at his retreating back, my cheeks reddening with embarrassment as I unwrapped the foil on a burrito and bit in, I turned back around and got in the red truck with Gabriel I shut the door and he sped down his driveway, he turned right and sped down the road.

It was a few minutes later when we pulled into a paved driveway with pastures on either side of the driveway with horses happily grazing in them. I looked at the barn with a calculating eye "are you sure ill be able to afford this place? I mean I have quite a bit of money saved up from my summer job a few years back and winnings from shows but this place seems kind of expensive" I said looking at him out of the corner of my eye, he just grins and says "The owner of the barn is my aunt, she'll defiantly give you a deal once she finds out your my mate." He parked the truck next to the house, and got out as I was getting out a woman came shooting out of the house with a stern expression on her face, she was actually really beautiful for her age, she looked to be around early to middle forty's, she had beautiful dark brown hair with blue eyes, she had lightly tan skin but you could defiantly tell that she was of European descent from the tan lines on her shoulders, she had a slightly up turned nose, under that full lips in a thin line, she was about 5'3 but she walked with a confidence that could fill up a room, but what I didn't understand was that she smelled human "Gabriel Maurice Redbird! Why didn't you tell me that you were back? And that you sensed your mate? What the hell?! I'm sure she's back at the pack house because you scared her so badly!" I cleared my throat and trying not to laugh at him shut the truck door, I held out my hand and smiled at her when her eyes shifted to me "Hello I'm Skyler, Gabriel's mate and an Equestrian myself." Her eyes widened in shock when she looked at my eyes then looked at my hand, she ignored my hand as she gave me an almost bone crushing hug I was surprised and I wrapped my arms around her in reflex. I looked at Gabriel in shock and he just stood there and shrugged at me, she let go as she spoke "sorry honey but it's about time the jerk found his mate, I'm his Aunt Claire, but you can call me Claire" she finished with a smile, then turned around to face Gabriel "Well Gabe what are you doing here? Finally came to your senses and decided to get a horse?" He looked at her then at me and said "No Aunt Claire, we are here because her horse is coming in a few days and she needs a place to put him." She smiled in an approving way then beckoned both of us towards the barn.

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