Chapter 59
Gabriel
“So with that in mind, 111 bring it up now for you to see.” I talk on speaker and screen mobile phone rings on my desk, I glance at the screen and see the name Elias:
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Thave to take this call. I’ll place you unhold for a minute.” I hold the call and answer my mobile. “Hi, What’s wrong?”
“Well “He pauses. “I wouldn’t say anything is wrong as such, more so pecudiar, I’m just calling to check as to why you woulder’t tell me about the visit.”“
“What are you talking about?”
Your mother is here:
I frown. “What do you mean, here?”
“Your mother is in Greenville.”
“What?” My eyes bulge from their sockets. “What do you fucking mean? I stand from my chair. “To not let her near Seraphina, do you hear me?”
“Too late, she’s already in her office.
“What?” I scream I hang up and immediately dial my mother’s number
No answer
Pock
I call Seraphina’s number as I begin to pace Ring ring ring ring Pick up.
The phone number you have called is not avadable right now
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I dial my mother’s number and she declines the call “Don’t you fucking dare.” I explode, rage fills me and I could crumble the phone with my hand. I call Usas
“Hey.”
“Where are they?”
“In Seraphina’s office.”
“Put my mother on the phone.” I growl
“What
“Right Fucking. Now, “1 yell
Thear him knock en
ock on the door, Knock, knock, knock Knock, knock knock. I can feel his panic through the phone.
Torgive me for intruding, Mrs. Ferrara Cabrief wants to speak to you as a matter of urgency,” he says
The phone goes dead as she hangs up on me.
“Don’t you fucking dare!” I explode.
I framtically scroll through my phone until I get to Frank, my mother’s driver, and I dial his number. “Hell
“Where the fuck are you?” I scream
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“Why the hell would you allow my mother to go to Maine?
“She said you knew.”
I did not know. Go into that office and remove her immediately. She’s not allowed near Seraphina Locke under any circumérance, do you under
“How do I repuve her from the office?
“Drag her out by the Docking hair if you have to,” I scream.
Hang on they’re coming out wins.
Ilisten
“Oh no betters.
“What?”
street.”
The security guards are escorting your mother out onto the str
My eyes widen, Seraphina has had her kicked out. That means they’ve had a fight.
“Why would she go there?” I yell I’ve never been so angry. “You get her the back back to New York right now.” I hang up and call Mark
“Organize the jet to go to Greenville.”
“When for?
“As soon as possible. My mother has just been escorted out of Seraphina’s office by security.”
“Oh Jack “he murmurs “That’s not good.”
“You think!” I growl ““We need to get there as soon as possible”
“Okay, on it.” He hangs up and I pace back and forth as I try to calm myself down. I try to call Seraphina again and it goes straight to voice mail, her phone is switched off
If you’ve fucked this up for me, Mom. I swear to god.
Itry to call my mother, again her phone is also switched off.
I’m about to explode.
My phone rings, it’s Mark
“Bad news,” he answers.
“What
We cant
“Why not?”
get clearance to leave the airport until seven tonight.”
“The airspace is full, that’s the earliest we cales
“This is the day from hell” I drag my hands, through my bair Tine, that will have to do. I hang up in a rush and my intercon buzzes “What?” I scream as lose the last of my patience
“Mr. Ferrara, are you continuing your meeting, the attendees are all wanting andine, sir.”
Tuck the meeting. I forgot all about it.
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My blood bellas the sky turns red
I’m going to kill her with my hare hands.
Seraphina
1st in the darkness and stare out over the lake from my bark porch. It’s 5 pm. The challeen are turked tightly in bed and yet I still can’t calm down.
Deb has been over here trying to damage control my heart, but it’s impossible.
Mrs. Ferrari’s barttal words keep coming back to me, over and over again like a megaphone on repeat.
If you think you can hold my son ramom with your bastard legitimate children, think again
Thate that I let her get to me
Let me garss. You seduced him on his desk co night after work? I’m assuming you were wearing something sexy, maybe a suspender belt that you purposely let him see? And the earth moved for you but he wanted nothing to do with you after? I’ll let you in on a little secret, Seraphina Locke. Gabriel has had sex with most of his PAs. You are nothing special. I mean, look at you.
You know what, she hit the nail on the head that’s exactly how it happened. I went to his office late at night and oh, my heart constructs with shame
Twipe alone tear that escapes from my
y think of me?
His family are nothing to us, why should I care what they t
My history with Gabriel Ferrara seems to be repeating itself; he’s been back for not even two weeks and already I feel like a worthless piece of crap
Him being around is just not good for me, everything about him reminds in of a time when I felt weak and vulnerable.
Deb thinks I should have taken the twenty million, the Ferrara family would still hate me, of course, but no more than they already do, and at least then I wouldn’t have to worry about money. Even if I just put ten million in a trust fund for each child until they reached the age of twenty–one, would still be beneficial
I wouldn’t have to deal with any of them but then the downside is that
the kids would never know their father and how can you put a price on that? And realistically, if he is in their lives, they would get a lot more than ten million each in his will, he’s worth billion.
I blow out a defeated breath and stare into space, he already said goodbye last weekend, I don’t understand why his mother has come all the way here when he already wiped his hands of them. Deb thinks he was the one who broke up with his fiancee and the old bat is furious about it and blaming me.
Is it my fault?
How could something be my fault when I don’t even know what’s going on? I turn my phone on and wait for it to light up
15 missed calls Gabriel
Ugh
Iturn it back oft
Stay the fuck away from me, asshole, I want nothing to do with you and your taste family.
Irefill my wineglass
“Got an extra glass for me?” A deep vote startles me, and I glance up to see Gabriel standing in the darkness of the backyard, looking up at me.
“What are you doing here?” I snap.
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T came to see if you’re alright.” He slowly walks up the steps and takes a seat in the chair beside me
