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.
my self control, I led her
who. I didn’t
they called you, Sofia murmured, turning back to the
letters, under the
Wasn’t this supposed
thought you don’t like koalas,”
don’t.” I rolled my
to eye while we walked out
were worth lifting her
SOFIA
coat, because it really was chilled outside. While we waited for the valet to bring the
me a
know.” My teeth
asked you to carry your
I wanted to glare at him. I genuinely thought he
was a gentleman at times, and
was a difficult
seat and getting in. Lknew Gabriel
got
in.
he did was switch on the heater, and
later, I was in my room. The time was almost
my bed, feeling too lazy to wake up, but when the hunger pangs became unavoidable, I tip toed down to
being served here, so I had no
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find some chips with a
No luck.
behind me.
jumped in my place when I heard a
a questioning eyebrow raised. I gulped looking at him, but mostly the way his
away from him.
pants. And I always knew he was so good looking, but the way the thin material of his tee was hugging his arms, it was well,
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 on me as he
He didn’t stop.
was inches away, forcing me to look back at
too blessed
dark, and I was hoping
hitched. He was close, so close that I could hear him breath. If
“Chips,” he said.
lips parted. He had walked this close to open the drawer above me, and I hadn’t even realised it because I
the pack of
He didn’t move away.
out from the right, but he put his
My voice was
He didn’t answer.
He was leaning down to reach my height. His face was inches away from mine couldn’t even think properly without imagining
around my waist, sliding downwards. I stopped breathing when they reached over my but it didn’t
My very bare thigh.
*Hm?” I gulped.
grabbed me, and I don’t know how he raised me, but I was studdenly sting on
“Would you share
“What?”
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“The chips.
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