Chapter 41
“Oh right ” She winces. You ram delink curls. Tish, this is boring already. Shipping then.”
Td love to come and besides I dont want you going alone.” She takes my hand in hers. “Weve got this and if Gabriel Ferrara doruch want his haby then screw him. We do and we will love this title baby so fucking hardd-
Tamile through teas and give a weak nod. “Tep“.
she contines driving. “When are you going to tell you juarais?”
“Can we just concentrate on telling the father first? Lhold isy temples.
“This is all too much
“Right.”Deb nods, she glances ever at me catally. Tecause your man is going to freak out, you know that, don your
“Not. Helping”
One week later.
The traffic whizzes by as we sit on the park bench, our eyes firmly fixed on the front doors of Ferrara Media.
“Okay, so let’s run through this again,” Deb says.
I glance at my watch. “He’s going to be walking out to have lunch with his brothers at any moment, and I’m waiting until he comes into view and
I’m calling him.”
“Why don’t you just call him now?”
“Because I want to see his face when he sees sme calling, I want to know what to expect when I go to see him.”
“Okay”
We wait, and we wait and we wair
“What if he isn’t having lunch today?” she asks.
“What if he isn’t even i in town the country.”
“He’s in the country.”
“How do you know!”
“His jet is at JFK
“How do you know that?”
“Because I do,” I snap in frustration. “You are forgetting that I spied on this man for most of my adult life, I know where his fucking jet is”
“Right”
We
sit some more and then I see Mark get out of his car and later around the front door. “Gabriel’s coming out now,”
“How do you know?
“That guy in the black suit by the door is Mark, his driver.”
“Why would his driver be going to lunch with him?”
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She screws up her Dice. “He has bodyguard”.
“Of course he has a holyguard, he’s rich hastard who pisses off a lot of people.”
We watch Mark as he stands by the dent.
“mm” Debbie sondes is she looks him up and down. Thai Mark is a bit of alright, isn’t he?
He used to be in the army or something” i slang. Tilon’t know, something manly and frigh”
He and Gabriel fight like cats and dogs but I know that Gabriel nost
– “Why do you say that?”
“Because he bought him a Corvette for his birthday last year.”
“What?” she gaps. Time do you know?”
“Because I organized the registration on it.”
Deb
screws up her face in disgust. “Are you fucking kidding me, you sucked his dick and all you got was a stupid bracelet, where’s your fucking Corvette?
“Tra diamonds” I widen my eyes, she doesn’t get it at all. It was about the sentiment.”
sick shak
“Big shit.” Deb drinks the last of her thick shake through the straw and it makes a loud sucking sound. Tuck him and his stingy sentiment. Give us a Corvette next time, asshole. Actually, make it a Porsche
I exhale heavily, ugh bringing Deli here could have been a big mistake. She already hates Gabriel with a passion.
The doors of the building open and Alessio comes into view and then Ricardo, and walking behind them is Gabriel
“Who are they?” Deb asks..
“The two tall guys in front are his brothers Alessio and Ricardo
“Hmm.” Deb wiggles her eyebrows. I don’t mind a bit of Italian su porn.”
“Ricardo lives in London,” I reply as my eyes linger on one person only. Gabriel
Towering above everyone, he’s wearing a dark blue suit and a white shirt, his dark hair has a ctrl to it and damn it, my heart is still on the bottom of his shoe. Seeing him for the first time in two months brings with it a wave of emotion, and I immediately teng up.
I miss him, lard how I miss him. “Is that him at
back?” I nod through tears.
His back is ramrod straight, and the way he walks is just so. male. He’s talking to Alessin, and Mark Falls in to walk in front of them with Ricardo, the other brother.
How could three brothers all be so genetically ble suid?.
“Doir”
“What? My daydream is interrupted.
“Call him.”
“Oh shit. I forgot I was supposed to be doing that.”
With shaky fingers I dis his number and I hang on the line as I watch. He digs his phone out of his pocket and looks at the screen.
Thump
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Thump.
Thump goes bey
Here it is, the moment of traits.
He looks at the screen and with nowering the call puts his phone hack
The caustic inch hite pe hand in the
My vision blurs with tears.
“Hen voch a fucking, prick,” D
Debbie matters under her breath
1st and stare into space, my heartbeat hammering in my ears,
And now I know
“MAYBE HELL CALL BACK when he’s alone, I mean he couldn’t really talk when he was with people, could he?” Deb says her eyes stay glued on the group of men as they disappear around the corner.
I nod, but I know that’s not tran
Gabriel doesn’t conform for anyone, if he wanted to talk to me then he would have.
1 slump back into my chair, shocked but not surprised.
“This would have been such a great opportunity to get rolling drunk right about now Deb sighs, she points to my stomach “Hope the baby’s having fun in there drinking all the drinks he wants to drink.”
might be a girl.” I look over at her and smirk. I stand feeling somewhat relieved that calling him is over. “Come on then.”
“Where are we going?”
“To get you a cocktail”
“We are? Her eyes widen with excitement. But you can’t have one.”
I link my arm with hers. “I got the feeling that you are going to drink enough for the two of us” “The three e of us“The three of us.
Yeah, the three of us.” I smile 1 kind of like the sound of that
“And something unexpected happened in the streets of New York today, a giant drone landed if Central Park”
The late night news is playing in the background. I glance over to see Debbie fast asleep on the couch. I glance at my watch
12:06 am
Fexhale heavily and look at the screen on my phone.
No missed calls
He didn’t call, and I don’t know why I was expecting him to, but I honestly thought he would.
I’m beginning to wonder if coming here and wanting to tell him is a monumental mistake. He doesn’t want me, so ho definitely won’t want to have a baby together.
1 really thought we had something
The harsh reality is that it was only me that had something. The feelings were one–sided.
And I really have to ask myself that what good is the fantasy of ham falling in love with me if I always knows in the back of my mind that it was only because he was trapped into it?
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Chapter 41
Sure, a baby will change things
We may work through this and end up okay, be deep down I will hways know that this iurt what be
1 km uns strong willed he is Nebody tells him what in ala, and for me to tell him I’m having a halay him into penert house overdrive. I think back techine badly be beluard when Tresigned, and that going to go one of two ways, either be accepts it and welcomes it with open arms or he’s going to get nasty.
What if he took me to coatt fon custody?
That this was a forced union.
ine without his perminion in likely to send
My hand plays protectively even my stomach. If he did decide to fight me, Leboldn’t afford the legal fees that he could.
An Irahan child is all he’s ever wanted, what if he then took the baby and the two of them lived in Italy somewhere?
He would do that to me
Would het
I honestly have no idea anymore. He’s fiery and impossible and an arrogant prick, bet I thought that was just the unter shell and
I that he had a soft spot
for me.
But maybe not.
Maybe that’s the real him and maybe, actually probably. I’m just a lovesick fool who was wearing rose colored glasses the entire time I knew him.
the remote to the television to turn it off I pull a hlanket over my too many cocktailed friend and kiss her forehead.
1 stand and point th
“Good night, drunk girl.” I whisper.
“Hmm,” she mumbles before rolling over in a dead sleep-
Thrush my teeth, get into bed and stare at the ceiling.
More thinking, more over analyzing and damn it, more heating myself up
I know what I have to do, I don’t have a choice. This at my decision: 1 have to tell him.
Tomorrow, I will.
I take one last look at myself in the mirror, I’m wearing a black pencil skirt and a linen shirt casually tied in the front. I’m trying to be casually irresistable, so that when he sees me he will fall to his knees and beg for my forgivenes
I’m not as nervous as yesterday and get a feeling everything is going to turn out. Maybe not as first thought, but I know I’ll be okay whatever happens.
“Do you want me to come t
“Nope.” I pick up my handbag and jacket. T’m fine, you go shopping and
I’ll call you when I’m done,”
“I can wait outside, I don’t mind.”
Tm fine, and don’t ask me why, but I’m quietly optimistic.”
Deb forces a crooked smile. “Call me the minute you’re done” She hugs me.
“Yep.” I walk out the hotel room door and into the corridor, excited to get this over with
Let’s do this.
The cab pulls into the curb and I peer unt the window at the huge glass fortress and read the sign.
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Butterfies swirl in my stomach, not feeling quite a brave now. I harst the money iver to tha tal driver. Thank you – “You have a plea
He smiles.
“You too
I square my shoulders and without bestation 1 match through the huge glass dones, and once insile my dep Filters New reception auff are per s security scammers. I look aimmil in a panic, I don’t kome these people and I don’t have any of my security badges to get into the building amphore
Where’s Liana and Margery and Tom?
Tuck
My heart begins to thump as approach the desk.
“Hello” The girl smiles. “Can I help you?”
“Yes I pause as I try to think on my feet. I’m here to see Gabriel
Ferrara
Did you have an appointment?”