Falling For My Ex's Dad by Oma Green

Chapter 178

Chapter 178: My Secret And My Mistake

Clairessa POV

The day had finally gone by faster than I expected.

Adrian had settled into his downstairs room-claiming it was more convenient, already filled with his things-while I was placed upstairs.

It felt like life was playing another sick, twisted game on me, because he'd placed me in the room closest to Gabriel's.

He even joked about it—said maybe his dad would finally warm up to me, get to know me... even like me.

What he didn't know was that I already knew Gabriel. Intimately.

He was my secret. My mistake. My obsession.

The man I had once given everything to—and the one I still wasn't over.

And I knew this house-every hallway, every door, every room.

So when I left my room and wandered to Gabriel's door, I told myself it was just to say thank you for letting me stay until I figured things out, for not turning me away.

But a voice in my head warned me to go back. That nothing good would come from this.

Still, I didn't stop.

His door was ajar. I didn't knock-maybe out of habit, maybe out of instinct. I slipped through the narrow opening and—

Froze.

Gabriel stood in the middle of the room, his shirt already off one shoulder.

As if he sensed my presence, he turned, catching me in the doorway. Bare-chested. Eyes locked on mine.

His body was cut and sculpted, his abs defined in clean ridges. The slope of his shoulders, the dip of his hips leading down to that deep, infuriatingly tempting V that disappeared beneath low-hanging slacks.

My eyes betrayed me, tracing every line of him like a path I'd memorized too well. Too long.

He didn't move.

Neither did I.

I drank him in before I could stop myself, drawn in like a magnet to everything.

Every inch of him reminded me of what I'd lost.

What I wasn't supposed to want anymore.

said my name, low and

I was too drawn in to

eyes had fallen back down

heavy between his thighs, and suddenly, the heat

And worse-I remembered.

him inside me, stretching and

I begged for more, gasped his name, held onto him like I'd drown

tightened, and

He followed

staring, and I couldn't even look

he said,

just going to keep

God—I'm sorry," I blurted, stumbling

I didn't know you were- I came to thank

erratic, heart pounding like

low, commanding. "Get back

body stilled. Shivers ran down my

he added, stepping behind me close enough

of him. "It's not like

He was throwing my own words

slowly, pulse racing. My legs

me toward him until only

"Why are you here?"

us.

locked onto mine, intense, piercing into every inch

was hard to breathe-harder

God, it was hard not to look down

his chest, or the ridges of his stomach, or

shallow breath,

I murmured, almost under my

stay. I know, after everything that

throw me out. But you didn't. So...

about manipulation or betrayal. Something

distant. Cold, maybe.

me you should thank. It was Adrian. He

I nodded, not surprised.

flatly, "not to fire you

My heart skipped.

full, almost making me dizzy. "Oh my God... thank you," I whispered. "Gabriel, I really needed

unreadable. "I know. Your house burned down. And I won't let anger cloud my sense of empathy.

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