All Chapters of Twice To The Altar : Chapter 51 - Chapter 55

They were in trouble!The enemy was lurking around!But Drake and Amelia couldn’t keep their hands off each other.Amelia made her way up to bed pretty early, thankfully Blake had his nanny looking after all the mess he had been creating in his bedroom. Drake was running late as usual, these days, he spends more hours at work trying to put together the integrity of the company.He picked up the phone to drop a quick message for Amelia but instead, a notification dropped on his phone, he checked it out curiously, to his surprise,It was an invitation.A private invitation from Charlotte Duke.Confusion ruled his heart, the name rang a bell but he had no idea where they had met or transacted business. He shrugged off the intensity at which he was feeding his curiosity after all,He had a choice to accept or reject.A last question surfaced in his mind before he totally waved it off,Why would Charlotte Duke invite him to a birthday party?Overthinking wasn’t the best idea for him at tha

“Can I hold you for a split second?”That was all Cole Harris asked but right now, they have been entwined in each other’s arms for minutes. Gabriella felt her cheeks flush from embarrassment. It was meant to be a mutual grieving moment turned out to be tending towards more.She disentangled herself from Cole who seemed lost in the moment already. He video game players on the screen didn’t appeal to him anymore. He felt himself getting drawn to Gabriella’s feminine energy which wasn’t why they agreed to their awkward friendship in the first place.“I am leaving .”She said suddenly rising up from the chair, she knew spending another minute in there with Cole could have consequences, the difficult ones to bear. She picked up her bag to stand up but Cole held her hand and pulled towards himself.“Don’t leave me alone, please.”Gabriella felt stupid, it all looks so wrong, whatever the fuck they had ongoing. She had slept carelessly with Ryan Harris few months ago and got attached to him

Pamela cleaned up the last bit of blood on Gabriella’s left knee. The younger woman sat there frozen from the shock of what she had just experienced. She felt her heartbeat rising and falling but she couldn’t put her brain to use.What the heck had she just witnessed!“Stop pacing around Cole, you are scaring her more.” Pamela said kindly.Her eyes met with Gabriella’s. She felt so sorry that the innocent girl almost got roasted in Edward Crane’s attempt to murder another Harris. She and the rest of the family weren’t certain who the main target was yet, they all clustered together in the living room brainstorming.“Ouch!” Gabriella cried out as the napkin passed through her right kneecap, she looked down and noticed blood oozing from the spot. It wasn’t the cat’s. It was her own, she must have wounded it when she fell down from the impact of the blast.“Sorry.” Cole hastily got on his knees to look at her wound.Deep concern was written all over his face. It was also laced with regre