Cara was still bothered about Gabe's outburst the other night, so much so that she thought of it for a very long time until she couldn’t take it anymore. She decided to ask him about it when she got to his house. She had told him she was coming today and they would be hanging out at his place this weekend anyway, they being Dean, Gabe, and Tim. She was only just inviting herself to the hangout. It had become a thing for them; hanging out on the weekend like this when none of them have any arrangement or meeting, and that was the only time they get to talk about personal stuff they couldn’t talk about at work, or at the pack's house. Most of the time, Time would tell her what it was they talked about, so she was as good as being there. Cara could see the Berkeley Moore come into her view as she drove and rounded the corner that led to the fence of his property. This place was really amazing, she couldn’t get over the awe she felt whenever she came here. He loved coming here. It was
Before she could open her mouth to talk though, Tim looked at her with his hand raised and he said. “Wait a minute, you’re not calling off the wedding, are you?” he asked, an apprehensive look on his face. Laughing would be considered too cruel, but she couldn’t keep her smile at bay. Why would he even think that? Just because she didn’t answer outright, Tim began to pale a little, so she quickly shook her head. “Of course not. Why would I do that?” She asked. “Did you do anything bad?” He shook his head and she stood up to walk to the chair he sat down on and patted his shoulder. “Don’t worry, you’re stuck with me. You can’t get rid of me that easily.” She said and walked back to her chair. To Gabe, it was as if he was watching a movie. He shook his head and snorted at the display. If he didn’t know any better, he would think that they both wanted to tide the time over so that Cara won’t state her reason for being here. Dean frowned, and then he asked. “What’s going on then?” he
After Gabe excused himself from the grill room, he walked back to the corridor that led to the stairs. Frowning, he said. “I haven’t seen Alex this morning.” Unconsciously, he walked to the kitchen and found her at the sink. She was so engrossed in what she was doing that she didn’t notice him come in. It was either that or she just thought to pretend that she didn’t. That didn’t matter to Gabe anyway. He walked to her and put his hands on her shoulders. Alex jumped so badly, turning to him with her right hand wrapped in a fist. She swung it towards him but he was quick to grab her waist and stop her. “Easy, baby. It’s just me.” He said, chuckling. “What the heck, Gabe?” she asked him wide-eyed. “You scared the shit out of me.” She said, huffing. He nodded his head. “I’m sorry about that. I didn’t mean to scare you. I thought you heard me come in.” he told her, an apologetic smile on his face. She blew out a long breath, and then she stepped back and got out of his reach, walki
After what he said, he saw her give him a nod, to his surprise. He had half expected her to deny having anything to talk about with him or even roll her eyes, something, anything to match how he thought she was feeling towards her when she ignored him. Smiling, he kissed her forehead, and he walked out of the kitchen. He needed to get to his room to take his phone. He was expecting a call from someone and it was important so he had to pick it up. He remembered it when Cara was about to say what she came for. He wondered what that was, but he soon took it off his mind. The way Alex reacted to him was what came to mind now, replacing the need to know what Cara was on about. She had said something but her body and reaction had said something else and he had been overjoyed by that. He had been so confused that something was wrong, but now, he knew it was doubt planted by someone that was working. It wouldn’t be for long though. He was going to tell her who she was to her, and announce
Slowly, he turned around, to look at their faces. He needed to see their faces when they took in what he had said, their expression, surprise or shock. It would be priceless to see how they look when they realized that they had been wrong. For a moment, they didn’t react, but then what he said begin to sink in and Cara dropped open her mouth, her jaw hanging low with shock. She furrowed her brows in confusion, and Gabe recognized the look on her face. He knew it too well. It was that of doubt, but she wasn’t doubting him. Cara was doubting herself, not sure she had heard correctly. She was sure that that was the case because she couldn’t have heard what she thought that she did. There was just no way she had heard Gabe right. Dean tried to act as if he was surprised by his outburst as well, but he failed. Thankfully, no one aside from Gabe noticed. They had both concluded that whenever he told the other two, he had to act as if he was also only hearing it for the first time, so the
Buried in a stack of hundreds of papers, Gabe looked around for the document he needed for the financial statement on the contract he would be mailing back to the German ambassador, but it was nowhere to be found. He shook his head unconsciously tapping his pen, and then he slammed it against the desk, then he cursed. “Dammit.” He sighed. “How the hell am I supposed to find something here in the midst of all this chaos?” He asked no one in particular. “Maybe I should have allowed Cody to come in today as he suggested.” He said, referring to one of his workers. Standing up, he began to look for it one after the other and after several minutes of carefully searching for it, he realized that it wasn’t there at all. He had been working for a few days and he didn’t realize something important was missing. “Damn.” He picked the receiver of the office phone from its cradle and dialed Dean's number. It must be in his office. Perhaps, he had left it there with him the last time he went the
Outside, the rain was falling so badly that it almost blinded Alex. She wondered what was taking the man inside this long to get to the door and open it for her. The thunder clapped and she jumped, but she soon calmed down. She was holding a document that Dean, Gabe's friend, and Cara's brother had dropped for him back at the house a few minutes ago, before leaving. He had told her to get the document to Gabe and that it was important. She hadn’t seen much of him, and the first time she would see him today, she was to drop off a document. She pushed the brown big and thick envelope under her blouse to shield it from the rain. Although she was on the front porch, the rain was too heavy, and the wind was blowing it onto the porch, so it wasn’t much of a shield. Two minutes she had been here knocking, or maybe it was the dilemma she was in that made it seem that long. She had been knocking for a while though, hoping that someone was coming to open it soon. When she came here, the rain
When the door opened and Alex turned to look at Gabe, all she could feel was a sense of Déjà vu. She remembered the first time she had set her eyes on him and he owned the door to her. She was drenched like this time and he was standing all dried up, warm and handsome like now. He must be so surprised to see her because he asked what she was doing there, then as if he thought better of it, he asked her to come inside. She shook her head as he grabbed her wrist to pull her, her body reacting immediately to him touching her. After the back and forth argument gent about going inside, she entered and he closed the door. "You shouldn’t have come if you couldn’t find an umbrella to use. People your age catch a cold as well, you know.” He said as she stood there in those clothes.He was grumpy, she could tell, but she was not about to say anything or argue with him. She wanted to tell him that the rain hadn’t started this much when she left the mansion to come here and that it was partly