Married Mate

Chapter 15

Gabriel's POV

When I dropped off the invitation to Michelle's baby shower at Jasmine's house I was so tempted to hand it to her personally but I didn't want to have any type of confrontation with her husband. So I decided it would just be best to sneak it in her mail box early in the morning after her husband had left for work.

On the invite I made sure that Michelle made it crystal clear that Jasmine was not to have a plus one. Hopefully she decides to come tonight; I have desperately been wanting... No needing to see her. My heart has ached every second of every day for her especially since the day she rejected me. Lucas hasn't been taking the rejection anymore easier than I have; after all she is his mate also.

Sighing I straightened out my bow tie in the mirror and made sure I was presentable. Michelle decided to go against the normal type of baby shower that everyone usually has and make hers into a Grand Gala. She wanted everyone to wear gowns and suits and look as elegant as possible.

Knowing Michelle she still expects everyone to bring her a gift card for all of the baby necessities she will need to buy, good thing I bought my gift card this morning. I tucked the envelope into the front inside pocket of my suit and headed downstairs.

Michelle really has over done it this time, there are more than 200 people here and it hasn't even been 30 minutes that the party started. Shaking my head and smiling I make my way down the stairs while discreetly scanning the room for my mate. "What if she still hates us and decided against coming?" Lucas whined in my head. "I highly doubt she hates us, she might still be upset with us but hate is a really strong word. Don't worry Lucas, I have a feeling she will be here tonight If not for us, then for Michelle."

I spotted my dear sister in a corner looking beautiful in a form fitting red dress. She reminded me so much of my mother, if only my parents could be here and see the person Michelle has become. They would be so proud of her, just as proud as I am. "Michelle you look amazing! How's my nephew doing? Are you sure you aren't squishing him with that tight dress?" I smiled at Michelle and rubbed her belly. 

"First of all you don't know if it's a boy or a girl so stop forcing a gender onto my jellybean" she said swatting my hand off her belly "And second of all this dress is not tight at all, it has a nice stretch to it thank you very much!" She crossed her hands over her chest and pouted.  "Stop upsetting the most beautiful mother to be" Jason said as he wrapped his arm around Michelle, pulled her close and kissed her forehead.

 "So is the guest of honor here yet?" Jason asked smiling and winking at me. "Oh yeah is she coming? I really miss her, I feel like she and I made a sisterly connection the short time she was here." Michelle asked smiling brightly. I knew they had made a bond while here, she must of really missed her but she wasn't the only one that missed her. "I don't ..." My sentence was cut short due to the fact that the most alluring and delicious scent attacked my senses. Jasmine!

I started looking around and walked towards the entrance of the house following the scent. I could hear Michelle behind me talking about how I was ignoring her and being rude. I quickly mind linked her and told her Jasmine had arrived and she instantly shut up. I abruptly stopped because I swear the wind had been knocked out of me, in front of me stood my goddess of a mate. There are no words in this world or time that could remotely come close to describe how utterly beautiful and breath taking jasmine looked. I had never seen her in a dress and let alone a sexy dress. Our Mate is truly one of a kind.

Lucas agreed but I could feel his jealousy start, why? Well as I looked around the room I noticed EVERY SINGLE unmated male eyeballing what was ours. Our jealousy quickly turned to anger, I let out a deep growl and every pair of lingering eyes instantly dropped to the floor. Hmmph yea you better look at your shoes!

Feeling a sense of triumph, I straightened my back and walked up to jasmine. "Jasmine I am so happy that you decided to come, Michelle is going to be so happy to see you. I know she has missed you dearly and wanted to catch up." I smiled keeping eye contact the whole time trying not to stare at her perfect cleavage that was begging for my attention.  "Give it to her, give it to her" Lucas was growling in my mind.  "HUSH" I wanted to back hand Lucas so bad.

"Oh Michelle is the only one that missed me?" Jasmine looked somewhat disappointed but quickly recovered. "By the way you look handsome Gabriel, who are you trying to impress?" She asked wiggling her eyebrows. "The only person that I would ever try to impress is the most beautiful goddess I've ever had the honor of laying eyes on and that is you. Jasmine you look beyond stunning this evening, you are making it very hard for me to control myself and not take you upstairs and finish what we had started in my pent house the night of our date. Also you are most def going to be the cause of many broken necks and black eyes tonight." I pulled her close to me and deeply inhaled her scent. She noticeably shivered and turned that adorable shade of pink that I missed.

She snickered and pulled away. "Why Gabriel I have no idea what you mean and why broken necks and black eyes?"

I highly doubt she forgot that night because I damn sure didn't. And I know for a fact she knew the type of attention she was going to receive tonight by wearing that dress. "I am pretty sure you know what kind of effect that dress on you is having on all these men at this party." I growled between my clenched teeth.

"Again I have no clue as to what you may ever mean." She smiled while batting her eyelashes.

"JASMINE!" My sister came waddling over as fast as her swollen ankles could take her.

"MICHELLE!" Jasmine ran towards her as if they knew each other for ages and hadn't seen one another in years. The screams were followed with lots of jumping up and down and squealing of excitement. Girls... I rolled my eyes and headed towards the bar with Jason.

"So Michelle told me about your plan..." Jason whispered to me in between sips of his whiskey. I avoided eye contact with him and just looked into my own cup, tuning out the sure rant that was to follow sentence. Of course Michelle would tell Jason all about HER plan that she convinced me to do and then pin it on me, Typical.

 I really did not want anyone else knowing what I was going to do. I wasn't even sure if I was actually going to go through with it, I would be risking so much. I had already done the first mark from the 3 step process. Well technically 2 step marking process, the other step is just a precaution for those Alphas that have rebellious or unwilling mates.

Usually the Alpha or any male bites his mate for the first time to give her a mark that tells all other unmated wolves that she is spoken for.  The second and last part of the process is done during mating, where they both bite each other officially claiming each other as true mates. Their scents are entwined and embedded into each other.  Their Link is chained together, and a unique matching mark is formed where they have bitten each other.  The bond that is formed is unbreakable, as put there by the Moon Goddess herself.

Now the 2nd Mark that Michelle wants me to do to Jasmine will prevent Jasmine from leaving me or my territory. Don't get me wrong she can come and go as she pleases BUT the moment she willingly wants to LEAVE LEAVE me (Run away), she physically won't be able to. It would bring her much grief and pain if she tried. But that all goes away the moment we complete the mating process. This is just a temp thing that Alphas have the power of doing.

I truly don't want to do that to her because I know she will end up hating me for a very long time but seeing her tonight just put things in perspective for me on how much I love her and need her and I don't want her to walk away from Lucas and I.

"....I just really think it's not a good idea dude."  Was the last bit I caught from Jason as I pushed off my bar stool and headed towards my target.