My Second Chance Alpha Mate
Chapter 3

(Lita Yashira’s grandma)

I look at myself in the mirror. Tonight I was going out with Jeffrey and I’m feeling nervous. Jeffrey and I have been together for ten years and he’s a werewolf. His mate died fifteen years ago. When I met him, he was getting his life back together. He started to come to the diner, brought me flowers, and chocolate and I would also replace a sweet note here and there. I still do. Then we started dating. I may be old, but I’m not dead yet. Old people need love too.

A knock echoed in my room.

“Come in”, I called and saw Yashira enter the room.

‘Wow! You look beautiful grandma’ she signs with a beautiful smile on her face showing off her cute dimples. Ever since the death of her parents she has stopped talking. I loved when Joel and Yashira used to sit around with their friends and just sing to the songs on the radio. I know she’s a strong young woman and I hope being here helps her. I know her parents would have wanted that for her.

“Thank you estrellita. Are you sure you can handle the diner tonight?” I asked. She has been helping me around the diner ever since she got here two weeks ago. The customers love her and she’s great with them.

‘I got this grandma. You go and have fun. You deserve this’ she smiles, showing me her cute dimples again and k****s my cheek. I see Jeffrey standing by the doorway. Yashira stops in front of him.

‘Take care of my grandma Jeffrey and have fun’ she signs then k****s his cheek and heads out.

“You look beautiful, my love”, Jeffrey growls, making me blush and the hair on the back of my neck stand.

“Are you ready to go?” he asks.

“Yes” I smiled, but I was a little nervous leaving Yashira by herself.

“Don’t worry love. Jake and Sara are patrolling around” Jeffrey assures me.

“Okay, let’s go”, I grinned, taking his offered hand and headed out to our date.

(Yashira)

I smiled as I watched Jeffrey open the door for my grandma so she could get in the car. I take the dirty dishes to the back where Leon is washing them. When I went back, I saw the bleached blonde bimbo, Ashley, walking in with Tristan. I knew that Ashley was coming in with Tristan, but she was supposed to come earlier. Jake and Sara were working so Ashley was going to bring Tristan. I kneel as Tristan runs to me. He hugs me.

“Hi Yaya” he smiles.

‘Hi handsome. How was your day?’ I sign as I mouthed the words slowly.

“Good. I happy to see you” he grins. I smiled at him and guided him to one of the booths. I found out he doesn’t like sitting close to Ashley, plus she doesn’t treat him right. I went to the kitchen and grabbed a piece of chocolate cake and a cup of milk. I went to Tristan and gave it to him.

“Tank you” Tristan grins and digs in. I ruffle his hair. A few of our regular customers come in and I take care of them. I start to clean up the place since I didn’t have many customers. I turned to go to the kitchen and found out that Tristan is not in his booth. I look at Ashley to see if he’s with her. My heart is pounding fast when I see something move outside from the corner of my eyes. I turned my head to see Tristan walking towards the street. I dropped the tray and ran out the door. I can see the headlights shinning on Tristan. I didn’t think about it twice as I lunged myself at Tristan, turning my body so I would receive all the impact.

I landed hard on my back, but I kept my grip around Tristan tight. The car continues to drive as if we were never there and Tristan whimpers on top of me. I sat up, slowly letting go of Tristan. I looked at him, making sure he wasn’t hurt.

‘Are you okay? Does anything hurt?’ I sign mouthing the words slowly for him.

“I okay” I can see he’s scared. I see Jake and Sara running towards us. Where did they come from? But I shook off the question focusing only on this beautiful little boy in my arms.

“Yashira, Tristan, are you okay?” Sara asked, looking at Tristan and then looked at me.

“I okay” Tristan said again.

“Yashira”, Jake says touching my forehead and I winced.

‘I’m okay’ I sign standing up. Sara picks up Tristan and I go back inside the diner. I can feel Jake, Sara, and Tristan behind me. I walk in the diner and go straight to Ashley. She looks up after sniffing the air and stands up. Without thinking about I drew my hand back and I slapped her as hard as I could. I saw the b***d coming from her l*p but I wasn’t satisfied at all.

“What the f**k?” She screeches. She goes to hit me back, but Jake stops her. I see her eyes flash and I tilt my head to the side.

“She hit me” she tells Jake.

‘You brought Tristan here. You are supposed to watch him, but because you are on that stupid phone texting or doing god knows what, Tristan got out and almost got hit by a car. You need to take responsibility for what you’re doing and, if not, then you shouldn’t take the responsibility’ I signed as Sara translated and the little customers that are in the diner started to clap. Jake takes Ashley out of the diner and Sara looks at me.

“Yashira, you have no idea what you have done. You saved Tristan and I know his father is going to be very happy because I know we are. Thank you so much. We are in your debt”, Sara says.

‘No need to thank me. Just do me a favor. Don’t leave him any more with that woman. I don’t want to think what would’ve happened if I didn’t realize Tristan was gone’, I sign.

“I understand. I’ll make sure that he won’t be left along with her again” I nod, and Megan came with the first aid kit. Sara takes it and pulls me to a stool. She opens the first aid kit.

“This is going to sting a little”, Sara says before grabbing an alcohol pad and patting my forehead, making me wince.

“Sorry you have a cut near your headline” she says. Jake comes back in and looks at what Sara is doing.

“Should I call a doctor?” Jake asks and I shake my head. After Sara finished cleaning my cut and putting some anti-biotics antibiotics, they sat down and stayed until I closed the diner.

“Are you sure you are okay?” Sara asks for the hundredth time.

‘I’m fine. I’m just going to shower and rest’ I sign.

“Okay, if you don’t feel well, text me okay” Sara says, and I nod. I head to the house and go take a warm shower. I put on some shorts and a t-shirt and go to my room and lay down. I closed my eyes letting sleep take over me.