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Gabriel
Ihad no words for what I had just witnessed between Greta and Kate.
“You can thank me later in bed.” She licked her lips as she walked past me.
My cock twitched something fierce and it shouldn’t have. Grace walked into the kitchen and looked at me.
“I’m all done for the day, Gabriel.”
“Thank you, Grace. I’ll see you tomorrow.”
“I hate to admit it, but Kate sure is something else. Don’t be too hard on her where Greta is concerned. She came here telling me that she couldn’t live without you and if you didn’t take her back, she was afraid that she would hurt herself. I tried talking to her and to get her out of here before you got home, but nothing was working. Then she started with her damn crying, and that’s when Kate walked in. She has a way with words, Gabriel. You can’t deny that.” She smiled.
“She manipulates people, Grace.”
She shrugged. “Well, in this case, it was a good thing.”
I sighed as I went up to my room to change for dinner. Pulling my phone from my pocket, I sent a text message to Kate.
“We are leaving for dinner in approximately twenty minutes. Be ready. I want to eat before we head to the Bowery Room.”
“Give me thirty. If you can’t do that, then I will have to meet you at the restaurant.”
“I said twenty or forget it. We aren’t going out.”
“And I said thirty. Do you really want to have to explain to Caleb that we couldn’t come see his band play over ten minutes?”
I clenched my fist and took in a deep breath. Throwing my phone on the bed, I took a quick shower and changed my clothes. I went downstairs and poured a glass of bourbon while I waited for Miss Smarty Pants to come down. Looking at my watch, I saw that she had five minutes left.
“Don’t worry. I’m five minutes early.” She smiled as she walked down the stairs.
My eyes raked over her from head to toe as she took my breath away. She wore a high-waisted pleated short black skirt with a royal blue top that sat off both shoulders. Tall black boots that came over her knee graced her long lean legs, and the way she had her hair pinned up with a few strands of curls hanging down started to give me an erection.
“Well?” She did a spin as she held out her hands. “Am I dressed appropriately for the evening?”
A smile crossed my lips. “You most definitely are. You look beautiful.”
“Thank you, Gabriel. You look quite handsome yourself.” She grinned.
As we were sitting in the limo, on our way to the restaurant, I placed my hand on Kate’s.
“I’m sorry about earlier with Greta. Thank you.”
“You’re welcome.” She smiled. “I’m still trying to figure out what you saw in her.”
“To be honest, I don’t really know. I thought she was nice and sweet at first. But then as the relationship grew, she demanded more of my time. Weekends weren’t good enough. She wanted us to see each other every day and she would cry non-stop. If I sent her flowers for a special occasion, she would whine that they weren’t the right color. She would blow up my phone all day long and ask me what I was doing and then facetime me to make sure what I said was true. She nagged all the time. I took her on a business trip with me to Florida and the only thing she wanted to do was lie on the beach. And seriously, that’s all she did the whole week we were there. She didn’t want to sightsee or even shop. I was going to rent a boat for a day, and she claimed she got seasick, so that was out of the question.”
“She sounds complicated.”
“She was. She even had her mother call to tell me what a shitty boyfriend I was and that a man in my position should treat her like a queen.”
“Wow. Really?” Her brow raised.
“It just wasn’t a good thing.”
“Then why did you stay with her for six months?”
“I was in the middle of opening a new hotel and there were tons of problems. It was easier just to stay with her and keep blowing her off until the hotel was opened. Then, when I was in Seattle, she accused me of cheating on her and she called me, crying her eyes out every single day. I couldn’t take it anymore, so I ended it over the phone. I didn’t want to deal with her when I got back.”
