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

I was too drawn in

had fallen back down

his thighs, and suddenly, the heat in my blood was

And worse-I remembered.

to have him inside me, stretching and filling me so

his name, held onto

throat tightened, and I

He followed my gaze-downward-and I

been staring, and I couldn't even look away

said,

going to keep gawking,

my God—I'm sorry," I blurted, stumbling back a

were- I came to thank

the door, fumbling, breath erratic, heart pounding like a drum. But

was low, commanding. "Get

entire body stilled. Shivers ran

he added,

him. "It's not like you haven't seen me

throwing my own words back

racing. My legs moved before I gave them

me toward him

"Why are you here?"

us.

onto mine, intense, piercing

to breathe-harder to

was hard not to

was safer there-calmer. Not like his chest, or the ridges of his stomach, or that damned V-line I knew far

shallow breath, trying

thank you," I murmured,

I know, after everything that happened

throw me out. But you

manipulation or betrayal. Something to remind me how little I deserved

Cold,

was Adrian. He practically begged

I nodded, not surprised.

flatly, "not to fire you from

My heart skipped.

hit me fast and full, almost making me dizzy. "Oh

know. Your house burned down. And I won't let anger cloud

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