Patient Mates(26)
Gabe curled his fingers into her hair. “This is why I’ve been a little slow to admit it to you.”
Kira pouted. “I’d hardly say we were moving very slow.”
Gabe gave her a half smile. “Slow by shifter standards then. The norm is usually to find your mate pounce her and have her bonded and preferably pregnant within a few days.”
Kira raised an eyebrow. “Okay if you say so caveman. How many wolves do you know where that was actually true?”
Gabe blushed a little. “Well I’m just going by my Alpha and my Beta…” Not to mention his own wolf had been more than a little pushy in that department.
“Ah.” So yeah cavemen thought Kira.
Gabe took her hands in his. “I want to be with you so badly and I’m sure you’re my mate, my wolf is sure of it too but then so was my dad… I don’t want to ruin your life the way my father ruined my mother’s.”
“You won’t, I’m sure you’re my mate too, but I agree I’m not overly keen on rushing to bond either. My sister met and married a man within two weeks and he turned out to be a complete asshole so it can’t hurt to wait just a little.”
“Thank you.”
Kira smiled. “For what?”
“Being perfect.”
“You couldn’t be more welcome Bambi.” She giggled as his face dropped.
He rubbed his thumb over her cheek. “You’re not going to let that drop are you? I’m stuck with Bambi forever now aren’t I?”
“Yes, yes you are.”
Chapter Eleven
2nd December
“No Alec I’m fine!” Liv’s irate voice echoed through the Sheriff’s station.
Alec the Sheriff responded in a dangerously low tone. “You shouldn’t be working angel. It’s not good for the baby.”
Liv tutted loudly. “The baby’s fine. All I do is sit and answer the phone all day. It’s not hard! Do you think I’m an idiot? Do you think I can’t handle just answering a phone?”
Gabe and Jake were on duty. They looked between each other with knowing expressions. The Sheriff and his mate didn’t fight particularly often but when they did inevitably Liv won. She was a dead cert every time. It was a particular source of contention that Liv wanted to work and Alec wanted her at home, preferably locked in and wrapped in cotton wool.
Alec spluttered. “I’m not saying that at all…”
“Or do you actually think that I would do anything to put our baby at risk?”
That’s it she had him. No way could he win this argument now. He was sunk.
Alec’s voice was soft and apologetic, Jake and Gabe had to strain to listen. “No angel I would never think that I…”
A sharp ring interrupted him and Liv snatched the station phone up. “Hello! Oh right, yes of course one moment.”
The next moment Liv came out from the front desk. “Gabe it’s for you, it’s a Deputy from Weyburn. I’ll put her through.”
As she went back to the desk Alec walked passed her huffily and she gave him the evil eye.
A few seconds later Gabe’s extension rang. “Thanks Liv.” He called.
“Hello Deputy North here.”
“Hi Gabe it’s Deputy Sharpe from Weyburn.”
“Hi Susie. Thanks for calling back.”
“Hmmm maybe you should wait to thank me. I checked on the guy you talked about his name is Stephen Peterson and yes he is currently a patient at Weyburn hospital in the cancer ward.”
“Huh.” Okay so maybe he had been making a big deal out of nothing.
“I don’t know what you’re looking for so I did a bit of checking and found out that he works as a delivery man. He lives in Weyburn but he travels all over the state. The delivery company is called ‘Wolf Mail’ and is owned by a wolf pack further south of here in a town called Charming.”
Alarm bells rang in Gabe’s head.
“Does that help you?”
Gabe forced himself to remain calm. “Yes Susie it does. Thank you for this.”
“No problem, glad I could help.”
They hung up and Gabe pondered what it meant. If Stephen Peterson works for the pack then most likely he knows the Alpha. The Alpha could have asked Stephen to have his brother scope out their pack. It was fairly tenuous but there was nothing about Albert’s presence in Rose that Gabe liked.
Jake sauntered over. “Hey you know that license plate you were running?”
“You mean the Cadillac?”
“Yeah, it’s parked outside the Diner. While you were on the phone Mrs Martin came in to complain that someone has been stealing the eggs from her chickens. She’s convinced it’s the Tanner boys.” Mrs Martin was the town busybody. Ever since an incident involving Mal Tanner, a fallen apple tree and a crushed car she had hated the Tanner boys and was convinced that everything bad that happened in the town was down to them.