Chapter 12
GABRIE
I’m not a man who usually listens to any woman, but this one had a hold on me. Not her, but the dress she was wearing. The way it hugged her upper body and then flowed down, showing her leg perfectly. Every time a man in this room looked at her, it drove me insane. It made me want to go up the stage and announce her as my wife.
“I don’t dance. I tell her firmly as 1 stand in front of her on the dancing floor, studying each move.
She pretended to be unbothered by what happened with Arthur, but I knew she heard every bit of my conversation with him, and it affected her.
“I know,” she replied, wrapping her hand around my neck. Her fake smile didn’t quite reach her eyes. “Can you stand here for a bit anyway?”
“Why
“Mrs. Johnson was talking about how we didn’t even dance at our own reception so we should take the floor now. I tried refusing, but she wouldn’t buy it. I was going to come find you after freshening up.”
My eyes reflexively found the sixty year old woman who was looking at us from a corner with her husband, who happened to be my grandfather’s friend. I put my hands on her waist. “So, you’re doing this to keep pretence? Because the contract I made you sign requires you to?”
“Mh-hm.”
I tightened my grasp on her waist, pulling her closer and swaying with her.
She was usually way more talkative than this.
“Penny for your thoughts?”
“Arthur was drunk.”
“He was”
“If you would’ve have been there, what was he planning to do?”
1 stiffened. “I was there.”
She hesitantly looked at me. “But you won’t always be there.”
“I will.” I tell her, my voice promising. “You’re my responsibility, Sofia.”
“Freckles.”
“What?”
She finally smiled. “You call me freckles.”
“I do. I passed her a soft one back and she relaxed, seeming convinced.
Im ready to go home.
“You haven’t eaten.”
She just shrugged, moving away from me and my hands drop from her waist, almost making me wish she hadn’t. She fixed
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her dress while I stared, wondering how pretty that piece of cloth would look on the floor of my.
That thought alone, of removing her dress in my room, my hands all over that perfect skin of hers, made heat rush down and I could feel my pants tighten.
I had to tear my vision away from her and just when I was almost successful in calming my absurd thoughts down, she wrapped one of her hands around my arm, and my breath froze midway again.
she subconsciously had on my self control, I led her towards the exit when someone announced my name
who. I
Sofia murmured, turning back to the
was my name in bold letters, under the top 3 biggest contributors
this supposed to be
thought you don’t like
I rolled my
eye to eye while we walked out of the gala in silence, but couldn’t help
paid were worth lifting her mood after that d*ckhead
SOFIA
outside. While we waited for the valet
spared me a glance.
My teeth
asked you to carry your
him. I genuinely thought he
gentleman at times, and
was a difficult man
passenger seat and getting in. Lknew Gabriel
got
in.
he did was switch on the heater, and then the
The time was almost midnight, but I couldn’t sleep. My
in my bed, feeling too lazy to wake up, but when the hunger pangs became unavoidable, I tip toed
served here,
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Hoping to find some chips with a dip of some ice cream, I scanned hastily through a
No luck.
behind me.
in my place when I heard
I gulped looking at him, but
away from him. “I-
And I always knew he was so good looking, but
was also made aware of the tiny shorts I was wearing since I sleep with the heater in my room on, my hair tied in a messy ponytail when his eyes stayed fixed
He didn’t stop.
away, forcing me to look
checks flushed when I realised I wasn’t wearing any bra and although I wasn’t too blessed in that department, I had enough for my turned on nipples to show through my
was hoping he
breath. If I leaned up, he was
“Chips,” he said.
the drawer above me, and I hadn’t even realised it because I was
pack of
He didn’t move away.
the right, but he put his hand on
was barely
He didn’t answer.
down to reach my height. His face was inches
they reached over my
My very bare thigh.
*Hm?” I gulped.
me, and I don’t know how he raised me, but I was studdenly sting on the kitchen
you
“What?”
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“The chips.
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