My Broken Mate (Man x Man)

Chapter 23

Jasper P.O.V

Today I finally had some time to spend with my lovely mate, so I had to send James off with Leo just so that Connor and I had some time to ourselves. I was so busy with work that I was not spending a lot of alone time with him, we hadn't had another date since the last one because James just attached himself to my mate's side and not only that but the work stuff that needed my attention had kept me away from him as well.

Finally!

I have free time for just a couple of hours.

Hopefully, no emergency needed my immediate attention because I was not leaving him for even a second, I'm just going to sit here, staring at him dreamily, just listening to his beautiful voice as he talks about the stuff he's been up to the past few days.

We sat on the porch swing, my entire body twisted on the small seat to face Connor, my eyes fixated on his pretty and soft features, my ears absorbing everything he has to say. The small table on the side, near Connor, filled with sandwiches and lemonade, with butter cookies for dessert.

I notice a lot of things about Connor, one of those things is that Connor is a lot happier than he was weeks ago when we had found him, he's not so scared anymore. Of course, I'm not saying that he's cured and completely happy, but that he's most likely close to getting over what happened to him.

Yet, sadly, Connor will never be completely over that.

There are moments where he gets uneasy, gets panicky, he still gets nightmares and there are nights where I hear him crying. And it hurts knowing that I can't help him, that I can't take that pain away from him.

Connor is my mate and I love him so dearly, even if I'm still learning things about him, like how he has gotten close with Leo's mother aka my second mother Sofia, she's a lovely person, always worrying about everyone, she always took care of us when our parents were away from James and me, cooking and helping clean for us, we always told her that it wasn't necessary even if we appreciated it, but she always insisted.

Connor was telling me about how she was teaching him how to clean and cook so that she wouldn't have to do it alone anymore because he would do it for her and it was kind of his way of repaying us for all we have done for him, he cut me off when I had opened my mouth to argue that he doesn't have to repay us, by saying that he wants to do this for us.

He also started talking about how Sofia loves gardening, so he has been learning her ways of gardening, at first, he didn't think he'd like it, but it was a lot of fun, he also said that Sofia is surprisingly really funny.

Connor looked so cute talking about the things he loved, which made him happy and excited.

He was the type of person the ranted and rambled on, jumping from topic to topic, so it was no surprise that he went from elated to a little weirded out.

"What's wrong?" I asked, noticing how he was nervously playing with his lips and how his eyes flitted across the floor as he thought of what to say.

"Well, I just was wondering when you were going to tell me about the werewolf bodyguards you have watching me or babysitting me as James calls it?"

It took a while for my malfunctioning brain to catch up with what he just asked me.

How does he know?

"How do you know?" I ask him exactly what I was thinking.

"James told me, he told me that he has babysitters and I have them too. Look, Jasper, I understand why we have them and I'm not looking for an argument or anything but it would have been nice to know that I have people following me and I would have liked it if you were the one who told me and not James."