Chloe“You smell like sex!” Simon goggled his eyes as he circled me like a wolf would stalk his prey, sniffing the air around me.His accusation caught me off guard, and I was late to hide it.“No, I don’t.” I tried to brush him off, not interested in sharing what happened earlier, and the fact that he was my best friend changed nothing.“Yeah! You do.” Simon persisted with his interrogation, but I wasn’t budging. There was no chance he could’ve known anything.I continued going through the orders Abby took during the morning as Simon peeked over my shoulder annoyingly.“You can choose to ignore me about this matter, but then I will never tell you how I know.” My head snapped towards him involuntarily, only to see him smirking devilishly.“Or I can just fire you.”“Oh, you would never. You cannot keep this house running without me.” he chuckled.“Simon!”“All right! All right!”At that moment, Suzy, Maya, and Frankie walked into the workshop laughing, returning from their break. Simon

ChloeJust like Gabriel promised, the sky was clear and stary.After leaving the restaurant, we drove to the shore.Magically, luck was on our side, and the beach had barely any visitors; only a few night strollers here and there passed us by.As soon as we reached the sand, I bent and took my stilettos off, intending to carry them, but Gabriel snatched them before I could react. He swung them playfully when I tried to take them back and offered me his other hand, which I accepted gladly.It must’ve been a decade since I walked on the beach holding a guy’s hand, probably since junior high. But then again, Gabriel made me feel like a high school girl with a crush on a quarterback! So, I embraced the moment and held it tightly against my heart.“Chloe,” Gabriel’s voice suddenly turned serious. “I’ve been meaning to ask you something important, but it never seemed right. However, I have to be in the clear about.” A cold shiver ran down my spine, and goosebumps covered my skin. “Do I have

GabrielShe came into my life unexpectedly, like a cold storm on a hot summer day, destroying everything in her way.I never had a chance against her cataclysmic nature; she had broken all of my defenses without me noticing, and I was left helpless to fall deeper and deeper into the abyss of her enchantment.Chloe.Woman that had me on my knees, begging for more.I could die a thousand deaths and endure the greatest torture over and over again if it meant I could have her by my side, soothing the eternal thirst for her.Gabriel from a year ago would laugh at what I had become. No, he would’ve punched me in the face! He would try to force sense through my tick scull!But I?I wasn’t willing to resist the call. What’s more, I had succumbed to it even before I could recognize it for what it was – an irresistible siren’s song meant to take me to the bottom of the sea.“Wipe that moronic smile off your face!” Ryan barged into my office without knocking, snapping me out of my daydreams abo

ChloeAfter a lot of thinking, I could say with utmost certainty that Gabriel’s presence in my life pulled a leg for me.If I forgot about the incident that brought us together to begin with, then I could not remember any event that did not fill my heart with happiness.First, there were these unforgettable moments we’d been spending together. Somehow, no matter how busy he must’ve been, Gabe always made sure to devote himself to me. Since we ‘hit it off,’ only a few nights we spent separately – he at his place and I at mine.And second, my business exploded. And I mean a literal nuclear blast! I failed to see it for what it was at the beginning, and that scared the shit out of me because it had never happened to me to miss such an important thing before. But nothing changed the fact that we were flooded with orders so much we had to make a waitlist.Besides, Gina’s life took a drastic turn, too. Hell, she was about to get married to the man she had been madly in love with for years.

ChloeHm… waking up enveloped in the musky, fresh smell of Gabriel’s cologne was… outworldly? Heavenly?No matter the term, it always affected me the same – it made me feel like I belonged.It was crazy being so entranced by Gabe; I was well aware of that. I didn’t spend enough time with him, that was true. Yet, I felt like I had known him for years. I liked to believe I could read him like an open book, just as he seemed to read me.Too often, I’d catch myself thinking about the future, and each time, in every scenario, I wasn’t alone – Gabriel Miller was by my side. Smiling, hot as hell, supportive, through thick and thin, but also angry and grim, or mad… young and old.I was afraid to say out loud just how far gone I was. He crawled so deep under my skin that I wasn’t sure whether it was possible to be free of him again.“Wake up, sleepyhead.” whisper I adored tickled my earlobe, waking up every cell of my drowsy body. “I got you breakfast.”What? That was the first!I was always t