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
Alex felt as if she wasn’t wanted here with all of the questions that he was asking, and she thought it was only okay, to leave, but right before she made up her mind, he said. “Don’t get me wrong, Alex,” he shook his head as he sat down across her in the kitchen. He had just placed a cup of hot coffee in front of her, so he took his cup and sat down. “I was just angry to see you in the rain, drenched to the bone and shaking like a leave. You could catch a cold. He should have been the one to bring it here.” He said, but the real reason was that seeing her here would distract him, and possibly, he won’t be able to concentrate anymore, but he wasn’t going to tell her that.She shrugged her shoulders. “I wasn’t able to tell him that you were back here and not at the main house. I even assumed he knew. Besides, he seemed to be in a hurry anyway, and I didn’t know what to do when he left so hurriedly.” She said. That wasn’t enough reason to stand in the rain, he thought, but he didn’t s
Not sure of how long he had been so engrossed in work, he heard the phone ring, but he before he could pick it up, it stopped ringing. He would have assumed that it has stopped ringing if he didn’t hear the click that indicated that it had been picked up anyway. He wondered who it was, and picked the receiver up anyway. “I would like to speak with Gabe.” He heard Beverly's voice and he scrambled up from his chair. What the hell was he doing calling him here in the guest house as if she knew that this was where he was, but knowing that she might have called the mansion and when she didn’t hear a response, decided to call here. He heard Alex sigh and said. “Okay, I’ll go get him for you, but what should I tell him your name is?” he wasn’t sure what was on her mind, but he could tell that she didn’t like how Beverly had asked about him in that manner. He wished he could see inside her head to know what she was thinking. She was probably thinking that something was going on between th
Alex stirred on the bed she was sleeping on and yawned, then she used the back of her hand to cover her mouth. She didn’t know when she had fallen asleep, or how long she had been sleeping, and even when she opened her eyes to look around, the unfamiliar place made her furrowed her brows in confusion. She had started to be alarmed, asking herself where she was when she remembered where this was. It took her a little while to know, and the unfamiliar room had made her uncertain. She scrambled out of the bed, checking to see that she had not removed her clothes or anything. She sometimes got rid of her clothes unknowingly while she sleep something to get comfortable.Looking around again, she tried to remember what she was doing last before falling asleep. Somehow, she couldn’t remember how she had ended up here in this room. The last thing that she had remembered was sitting in the living room with Gabe after eating the food he had made her eat with him. All she could remember was
Before this turned into mating with her because he couldn’t hold off, he pulled away, sighing as he did. Alex missed him as soon as he did, so she tried to pull back and he pushed further away, getting away from where he stood to stand several feet away from her. Confused as to why he was suddenly cold towards her, she jumped off the stairs to walk to him, but he took another step back, making Alex shake her head with a bite of her bottom lip. She smiled, but it didn’t reach her face. “What the fuck is this, Gabe? Do you get off teasing me?” she asked. “That’s not what I’m doing, okay, I’m only trying to cool off.” He said. “Oh, but what’s the need when I’ve started to kiss you back? You can’t say you don’t want me, because I already know you do, so what’s the problem?” she asked. She decided she was going to be bold and face this head on. She had already thrown out everything her best friend told her. She just couldn’t do the dance between them anymore. She was tired of it and de