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
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