Gabriel
Seraphina rushes the children through the back door and my heart sinks, the last thing I would ever want is for them to have to deal with this I am mysterion in Ariana; she’s crying hysterically and out of control
“Calm down,” I tell het.
“Calm dewis?” she gasps. “Calm domen?” she cries again. “Did you fuck her?”
1 stay silent, ineare what to say
“Tell me the truth, Gabriel. Did you sleep with her on what was to bent wedding night?”. For
I’ve been so carried away with Seraphina and the children that completely lost track of time. Yesterday was supposed to be our wedding day
Tm soch a fucking asshole.
“Did you even remember?” she whispers through tears, her voice cracks, betraying her hurt.
“Of course I remembered.” I lie. I need to defuse this situation and get her out of here, she’s completely unstable. Im here to see my children.”
“Do note to me.” She picks up a glass and hurls it at my head; it smashes against the wall.
“Hey,” I say sternly. “You do not break anything in this house.”
She picks up another glass and hurls it, glass flies everywhere as it explodes against the wall. “I’ll burn down her entire fucking house, she’s nothing but a trashy homewrecker.
Ugh she’s been speaking to my mother. “Let’s go back to my house where the fuck is Mark?
“No. I want to wait for her to get back.” She folds her arms and begins to place. “I have a few things I want to ask her.”
“Such as”
“That’s for me to know and for you to find out.”
My anger immers dangerously close to the surface, and I grab her by the hand. “Out. Now.”
“No,” she screams, and begins to hit me hard in the chest. “How could you?” she cries hysterically. “How could you do this to me? She keeps hiring me over and over. “You said you loved me. We were just starting our life together, how could you walk away from something so beautiful?” She pummels my chest and it’s official, I am the worst kind of human
She’s completely broken
“Baby, I’m sorry. I’m so so sorry, 1 pull her close to try to calm her down, and I hold her in my arms as she cries against my chest
We stand in each other’s arms for a long time, and I dy’t know how to make this better. There’s no way Lean Emutterly and irrevocably in love with Vee, and if I’m honest; I always have been. My feelings for Ariana only scratch the surface on what I feel for Seraphina and now with the children in the mix, everything else pales in comparison,
What kind of man am 17
Ariana’s body wracks with tears as I hold her. “Shh.” I try to calm her down. “It’s okay.” I whisper. “It’s going to be okay.”
“How can anything ever be okay again if I don’t have you?” Her tearful eyes hold
I want to give it to her straight, tell her that she’s better off without me because even if we were together, I would still love another woman from afar.
But I can’t
Not now, not when she’s like this.
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Chapter 79
Lowe her better than this, I have to care for her. “Come on, I’m taking you back to New York,” I say softly as I hold her..
She looks up at the. “You’re coming back in New York with me?”
She smiles through hopeful tears
Tuck
“Come on.” I put my arm around her and gently user her out of the house and put her into my car. 5 can’t bear to see her like this.
Look what you’ve done.
We drive in silence back to my house as my mind races a million miles per minute.
What’s Seraphina going to think of me leaving with Ariana?
She’s like a broken child, sobbing uncontrollably, I
This looks bad even to me, but how can I help it? What kind of person would I be if I didn’t care for Ariana when she’s like this?
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We pull into my driveway and make our way up to the house, Mark is in the driveway and he looks up puzzled as I park the car
I glare at him. Where the fack water you?
His Tare falls as he connects the dots and he rushes to open my door.
“Hello?” he stammers.
1 get out of the car and slam the door; my fury is palpable.
“What’s going on?”
“Ariana came to Seraphina’s this morning Apparrady, she sat on the front of this house all night.”
Mark’s eyes widen in horror. “I didn’t see her,” he stammers. “I swear I didn’t see a th
“Organize the plane, I need to take her home.”
“Tes, sir.”
I walk around to Ariana’s side of the car and she’s crumpled up in a ball, still crying. I reach in and lift her out of the car and Mark’s eyes widen as he sees her state. He rushes ahead and unlocks the free door for us and I carry her in and place her carefully down on the couch. “Get me a blac “Tes of course.” Mark runs up the stairs.
“Ariana. Im going to make you something to eat,” I say softly as I swipe her hair back from her forehead
“I’m not hungry,” she whispers
“You are eating, you’ve lost a lot of weight since I last saw you. You need something in your stomach”
Mark reappears with a blanket and I carefully place it over her. I put a pillow under her head and snuggle her in “Tl be back in a moment, okay?” | turn to Mark “Do not take your eyes off her, “I growl
I’m so farious that I can barely look him in the eye. What the point of having gards at this house and Seraphina’s if not one of them does their fucking job?
Heads are going to roll over this
“Yes, sir.” He drops to sit on the opposite couch as if scared for his life
He should be.
I walk out into the kitchen and open the refrigerator, what the hell will get her?
I take out my phone and text Seppina.
Ariana is distraught,
I’m taking her home to New York
Call you as soon as I ca
I press send
I get to making Ariana a grilled cheese sandwich and a hot chocolate and I check my phone, no reply from Seraphina
Fuck
I text her again.
