control snap as his mate took his life’s blood into his body and the dirty words fell from his angel’s lips. He
turned and pressed Ashby against the shower wall. He pounded into his mate’s greedy ass again and again.
The animalistic grunts and the sounds of flesh against flesh echoed in the shower stall.
“Come,” Gabriel demanded and thrust his forefinger in beside his cock stretching his mate further.
Ashby’s eyes went wide and he screamed out his release, his hot cum mingling with the water. Gabriel
removed his finger and thrust deep once more before emptying into his mate.
“God I needed that,” Ashby said, closing his eyes. Gabriel lifted him off his softening dick and gently
washed his mate’s well-used hole.
“We have the rest of eternity. It will only get better between us,” Gabriel said washing his own body.
“What do you mean eternity?” Ashby asked, pausing in soaping himself up.
“I’m a true immortal, mon ange. Unless someone gets extremely lucky, I will live forever, and as my
mate, so will you,” Gabriel explained rinsing his hair. When he looked down he noticed that Ashby had
gone extremely pale.
“When were you going to tell me?” Ashby said. Gabriel could see a flash of anger in his eyes.
“I don’t know what you mean, does it matter when I tell you? We are mates, I am immortal, as my mate
so are you. Were you not going to mate with me had you known?” Gabriel asked, starting to get irritated.
“No, but this is huge Gabriel. You should have told me,” Ashby turned his back to Gabriel after he
rinsed off the soap.
“I didn’t realize it would affect you this much. How about we have a nice dinner after we get back from
shopping for your new things?” Gabriel said, turning off the water and stepping out of the shower. Ashby
stopped in his tracks behind Gabriel and gaped up at him.
“What do you mean new things?” he asked in the barest of whispers.
“You will need clothes and things since you will be moving in.” Gabriel looked down at Ashby, not sure
why his mate was looking at him as if he just suggested they go out and kill kittens instead of the day of
pampering and shopping he had planned for him.
“You never even asked me what I wanted,” Ashby said before grabbing a towel, his old clothes, and
marching out the door. Gabriel watched as he walked out of the master bedroom to the guest bedroom and
slammed the door.
What the fuck did I do? Gabriel slammed his hands on the counter. He took a deep breath, trying to
regain his composure as he dried off. He walked to the master bedroom and got dressed while he replayed
the conversation. He glanced at the closed guest room door. Sighing, he headed downstairs to resume the
meetings he had canceled to be with his mate today.
If he wants to be alone, then he will have all day to be alone, he threw himself into his work to distract
him from his mate’s hurt expression.
Chapter 7
“We have three new guys in the pride and sweet baby Santa, are they hot! Liam was complaining to his
grandfather about getting behind with the pride accounts and about the hyena attacks. Grandpa Lewenhart
digs up three gay lion hotties and ships them to Arkadia. I almost peed myself laughing when they
introduced themselves in the diner. Liam cussed a blue streak, calmed down, and then gave them the town
tour. I swear if I weren’t mated… First we have Rex Townsend. Light-brown hair and brown eyes, built
like a linebacker. Rian trips over his damn feet around him.” Rebecca shared and he could almost hear the
eyeroll.
“Sounds yummy, what about the other two?” Ashby asked intrigued.
“Next we have Kent Fieldings, think really buff Clark Kent, complete with glasses. Swimmer’s build,
kinda shy, absolutely adorable. He blushes, Ashers, blushes! Kate and I want to adopt him. He was
Lachlan’s solution to Liam being behind in accounts and paperwork, the guy is a genius with numbers. He
makes you think bad things, like being naughty in study hall.” Rebecca laughed.
“Next?” Ashby asked, dying to hear about the last one.
“Last, but certainly not least, is Talon Forrester. This guy is almost as big as my bear, about six foot
seven. He’s massive, like blot-out-the-sun huge, but in the super cut and defined kind of way. Kate and I
are begging Liam to throw a pool party this summer, but our mates heard why we wanted one and
torpedoed that idea. But we are not giving up yet.” Rebecca dropped her voice to a whisper.
“Anyways, how are things in Purgatory? I still think that name is wicked,” Rebecca said.
“I locked myself in the damn freezer!” Ashby complained to Rebecca. He heard her giggle and smiled.