Ex-Husband's Regret

Chapter 0492

Harper.

It's been close to two weeks since Gabriel made me promises that shattered every reservation, I had about giving him a second chance.

I swear, I never thought I could be this happy.

My life with Liam was good, but with Gabriel, it's better. Maybe because Gabriel is the man I loved. The man my heart held on to for almost a decade.

I would be lying if I said that I wasn't scared. There was still the small part of me that expected the other shoe to drop. After all, it wouldn't be the first time in my life that a loved one has been taken away from me.

There is also the fear that this is all too easy, you know. Like shouldn't it be a bit harder? A bit more difficult. A bit more challenging... or is that just my self-sabotaging tendencies talking?

Maybe I am so used to not having things going my way, which just makes me question things when they do.

"What are you working on?" Gabriel pops out of nowhere, scaring the crap out of me.

With my hand on my chest, I try to calm my racing heart. "Don't sneak up on me like that."

"I didn't," he says, his eyes flashing in amusement. "I've been calling you for more than a minute. You were just staring into space."

That night at the gala, right after that first round, Gabriel continued for two more rounds. We slept and just when I thought it was over, he woke me up for a few more rounds. I swear, by morning, my legs were like jelly.

count it as one of my best nights. There is just something about your husband whispering sweet nothings to you while buried deep inside you. He would alternate between sweet and straight up dirty talk. My mind could barely keep up, but I

belong

focus on his handsome face. This is a dream come true, but there is a small part of me that keeps insisting that I gave in too quickly. It keeps insisting that I should have given it more

away from him to stare at the papers in front of me. "I've just been

seat right next to me on

he motions to the papers that I'd been

asks after a

what its names suggest. Unity Ventures. Meaning we will be all- rounded.

mine. My joy swells deep inside me

really intended to be part of my family's company. It was never in my dreams to join it and be part of the running team. That was always Andrew's dream. It's just too bad he never got to realize

been so busy trying to save it to realize that he was sick. By the time he did get diagnosed with stage four prostate cancer, my parents were dead, and we didn't have

to seek help from Gabriel once Gabriel and I were married, but like the proud idiot he was, he

do love my father, but I also put the blame on

here today,

Gabriel says, interrupting my

*Thank you."

client," he says thoughtfully. "She did say she'd like you to do the interior of one of her

has never mentioned it again, so that

the kind of person who will go bother someone because of something like that. If you need my services, then you'll come