Chapter 234 Avery's POV My small victory lasted all of 8 hours. Then Gideon once more began to dog my steps. I supposed he'd had time to rest and shower, and then immediately came to find me. "What are you doing?" I asked as he knelt beside me in the dirt of the garden and began yanking up the weeds I was pulling. His eyes slid over in my direction, "This is important to you, yes?" "Yes?" I said with irritation. "Then I will help you with it," he said simply. I glared at him. Was this some sort of new game? To shadow me at all times?

"You don't even know what you're doing," I snapped, "That's not a weed, that's a carrot you just pulled up!" "Then teach me," Gideon said simply, "If it's important to you, I want to know it." "No." "No?" "No! I don't know what you're up to, but knock it off," I huffed and rose from my knees. If he wanted to learn what I did all day, he was about to learn how to rotate compost and dole out fertilizer. The stinky fish fertilizer smelled terrible, and Gideon's face scrunched up as I carefully poured it into my watering can. "You're welcome to leave at any time," I told him snootily.

"I want to be near you. You are my mate," Gideon said with a smirk and took the watering can from me. "So you're going to abandon your Alpha duties and spend your time following me around?" I asked, exasperated. "Yes," he grinned at me, undeterred. He marched off towards the tomatoes and I stared after him with a crease between my eyebrows. Unsufferable man His broad muscles rippled as he lifted the heavy can and dumped it all over the leaves. "Hey! Not there!" I shouted, "It goes down under the leaves, the roots! Argh!" I stomped after him to show him how to do it.

after several hours of garden work were cleared out in record time, that having a big strapping Alpha around wasn't so bad. 'You like looking at him, too,' my wolf added knowingly. 1/2 Chapter 234 +25 Bonus 'Shut up,' I tore my eyes away from where I had been watching Gideon bend over to mend a fence rail. "What now?" Gideon asked, finishing the last of the tasks on my list for the day. "Now you go away," I said, though I was

towards me in the slanting sunlight. His eyes glittered as he looked me over. He reached out to wipe away a streak of mud that was stuck to my cheek, "Until then, you're stuck with me." He had a

eyes away from a pile of hay I had been staring at and blushed. No, I

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