Chapter 25

**Narrator’s POV.**

“Today was…”, Tessa began but she was cut off by her date who had a cocky smirk on his face,

“Oh, you don’t have to say it, I know it was wonderful and awesome”, she could not resist rolling her eyes, “I will fucking poke your eyes out with a stick if you roll them out me one more time”, Tessa scoffed,

“Good luck with that”, she crossed her arms over her chest, unaware that she was pushing her boobs up and showing much more cleavage than the dress was meant to show. This of course did not go unnoticed by Gabriel who groaned lowly as his soldier strained against his pants,

“You’re a fucking temptress, you know that?”, he pushed her against his car and buried his head into her neck, “Such a fucking temptress”, the situation she was in made her cheeks heat up furiously. He pushed his lower region unto her and she could feel his straining member on her stomach, “Why are you doing this to me?”, Tessa was completely speechless. How was she even meant to answer such a daring question?

“Doing what?”, she breathed out heavily as she felt her panties dampen in arousal, what the fuck was he doing to her?

“This”, he replied, kissing her neck sensually, “Making me want you so fucking bad”, his voice sounded forced, like he was in pain- pain that only she could take away permanently.

“Why do you want me?”,

“Do not ask me that, I wouldn’t be able to answer you correctly”, he pushed himself off her and took a step back, “You do not want me to answer that”,

“What about if I want you to?”, she closed the gap once again by taking a step forward, “Because I want you to”, it baffled her how the conversation had gone from slightly playful to extremely serious in just a matter of seconds.

“You are better off not knowing”,

“I will be the judge of that”, he groaned again and pushed her unto the car roughly,

“Drop it, okay? Just fucking drop it. It doesn’t matter anymore now that I have you”, his hand went to her face and he caressed her soft cheeks gently. She pouted her lips but nodded her head in acceptance, she had decided to let it slide for the time being but would still ask him about all this eventually.

“You do not have me”, she whispered, finally grasping on to what he had said,

“Then no one can, you are mine whether you like it or not. I would never let you go like my brothers did- never. You mean much more to me than that. I will never give up on us and you have to promise me that you wont either”, never in he life had she seen a man look so vulnerable, so broken and yet so hopeful- the sight was very heartbreaking and so, she said the first words that came to her head to heal him,

“I promise”, her voice cracked at the end but she gave him a smile of surety, “I promise that I would never give up on us”, she felt a huge surge of emotion burst through her body and she knew she had made the right choice by committing to Gabriel.

For one, she knew that he would never cheat on her or force her into doing something her mind wasn’t put in, he would never hurt her- at least maybe not emotionally. He was not too keen on pretense or trying to appeal to her in anyway so it would make it easier for her to phantom he dating a girl like her.

“A promise is a debt”, he whispered into her ear as he let his hands roam her slender waist,

“Then I am indebted to you”, she finalized. She went to place her lips on his but he moved away from her slightly, “What is wrong?”, her eyes were narrowed as hurt strangled her chest,

“I want to be the one to do it”, he said before crashing his lips down on hers, even though she knew it was coming, she could not hold back her moan of surprise as his warmth invaded her. Then she felt it- the sparks, fireworks and burning everyone talked about, it was like electricity surging through her body and crackling around them. It was magical.

She had never been so weak in the knees before and the only thing really holding her up was his hand on her waist and the car she was pressed against- the cold metal soothing the flames within her. He scraped his teeth over her bottom lip, seeking for entrance which she gave without hesitation. His hands left her waist and went to her face, trying to get the kiss deeper than it was before and allowing him to gain full control over her head movements- he wanted her head still, unmoving so he could have his way with her.

They were pulled away from their intense kiss at the sound of someone clearing their throat. Their eyes snapped towards the person and all color was drained from Tessa’s face upon realizing who the person was, her breathing hitched and her tongue nearly rolled into her throat in surprise.

Gabriel on the other hand seemed cool and collected but he for a fact was far from it, he was so nervous and worried that he pushed Tessa behind him and took a step closer to the menacing man that had put on a seemingly nice font that could fool anybody- but not him.

“Father”, he greeted formally, “I was not expecting you to be out here so late at night”, it was his indirect way of asking what the fuck he was doing there,

“Oh, you know-”, the man smirked, “I decided to come to the garden for some fresh air”, it did not take a psychic to know that Andrew O’Connell was definitely lying, he was spying on them, Gabriel was sure of it.

“Then, we would leave you to it”, he took Tessa’s hand, trying to leave as fast as he could and hoped that is disgusting father would somehow not notice the beautiful girl in the slightly revealing black dinner dress or the fact that her cheeks were flushed and her lips had become plumper than usual, damn, she looked hot.

“What’s the rush?”, Andrew spoke out, “Besides, you have not introduced me to this beautiful lady”, his ravishing eyes went to Tessa and for a split second, she felt as though she was completely naked for his eyes to see. She shifted uncomfortably and pushed closer into Gabriel’s side trying to hide herself from his prying eyes- they reminded her of how much she hated him and hoped for him to go to hell for ruining the better part of her life.

Gabriel for a fact knew that his father was already aware of who Tessa was, he was just trying to start a fire that couldn’t be sated. “This is Tessa, my girlfriend”, he really did not want to patronize his father but he knew he had no choice- he lived under his roof, he had to answer to him.

“Hmmm, last I heard, she was Alex’s girlfriend, or was it Kevin’s”, his eyes bore into Tessa’s, amusement written clearly in his while hers glistened with dread.

“She is my girlfriend”, Gabriel said with finality, “Now, if you would excuse us”, he did not let his father reply before he walked away quickly, dragging his newly acquired girlfriend along with him.