Chapter 0464 "Just like I'm clearly falling for you Gabriel's words keep playing like a loop in my head over and over again for the rest of the day. We had back-to- back meetings with different investors, yet I couldn’t focus on anything except those seven words.
As you have probably guessed, I am an overthinker. I overanalyze and overthink everything until it drives me to the edge of insanity. That’s what I've been doing the whole fucking day.
What did those words mean? Is it actually possible that he’s falling for me? What if it’s a trick? What if he’s playing me? Should I trust what he’s saying? And if it’s true, and he means those words, what am I going to do? What should I do? I want so badly to ask him, but I don’t want to seem eager or desperate.
I was right after all, agreeing to be i"
I I Gabriel's wife once again, was messing meup.
I « k oN : : z You okay?” he questions, his worried glance flittering through my face.
“Yes” I whisper, trying to push those thoughts away.
It did no good to keep thinking about them. I would just end up with a migraine, something I didn’t need.
“We can stay in if you prefer. We don’t have to go down.” I muster a small smile and compose myself. “No, it’s okay.” It was now evening and Gabriel was taking me out to dinner. Technically, we were going downstairs for dinner, but that didn’t matter.
Taking my hand, we leave our room and get into the elevator.
Unlike our first date, I didn’t go all out dressing up today. I was in a simple black dress, heels and subtle makeup. 7
so much that when evening came, 1 didn’t have the energy to spend hours
want it to simply stop and let me relax. I didn’t have the answers and that was okay. All I need is to take one day at
played above the chatter of the other diners. Everyone seemed to be in a good mood, as we
say, once we were seated in
say anything. Just stares at me in that intense way he does. I shift uncomfortably under his
I’m saved when a waiter approaches our
saying, “Sir, madam, some wine?” “Yes please,” I answer, and he pours some into my
tongue, and it’s like tasting heaven. It tasted better than the cheap wines
wouldn't go for cheap wine. They probably
is exactly what I need to relax. To unwind and think about nothing for the next
the topics I thought we would discuss during dinner, Liam wasn’t one of them, Swallowing the wine that goes smoothly
I attention.
jaw is clenched, and it seems like the words were forcefully pulled out of
lift
I stare into his
him.” He leans forward, confusion replacing the jealousy that had been there seconds ago. I “I don’t get it” he says. “Why marry him then? Did he know you
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