The tears gleamed in her eyes and I knew without a doubt she felt everything I felt.
“What do you want Ally?”
“You…”
“You have me baby….Stay, please?”
With tears streaming down her face she nodded yes. I grabbed her and picked her up, her legs wrapped around me and then I kissed her. It wasn’t one of those greedy, sexually charged kisses where all I’m thinking about is ripping her clothes off and taking her before I exploded. No. This kiss was filled with the passion and the intensity of our emotions and promises of tomorrows and even though neither of us ever said it, it was filled with love.
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“Bite the bullet babe. You need to make that call.”
I shot Gabe my most evil glare and he had the nerve to grin at my dilemma.
“Why don’t you make the call. She’s your sister-in-law,” I snapped at him before picking up my phone for what seem like the tenth time.
“And have my ass chewed out by a hormonally charged pregnant woman whose obsession with cheese cake has no bounds? No thank you. I’d rather you deal with that freight train.”
Its been seven days since I made the decision to extend my stay with Gabe, giving this blinding attraction we have for each other a chance to see where it led and I must admit it’s blissful. It’s my own slice of paradise and I cherish every moment I have with Gabe. The sex was phenomenal and we couldn’t get enough of each other and then there were those cherished moments we spent trying to learn everything we could about each other as we took long walks, hand in hand on the beach or extra long baths. The only problem we had, as Gabe rightfully put it, was my hormonally charged pregnant sister. After the shit hit the fan with Gabe’s stalker we were bombarded with phone calls from his parents, Tyler and Mavis and Betsy, who’ve taken over the role of mothering me. To this day I’m still overwhelmed with emotions when I think about how I’ve spent most of my adult life with having only one person who really cared about me to having all these people love me unconditionally. My own mother and biological sister didn’t even care when I got shot on the job a couple years ago.
“Ally stop procrastinating and make the call,” Gabe urged, standing in front of me in all his naked glory before stalking into the bathroom.
If he didn’t have such a cute butt I’d try kicking his ass into tomorrow.
Ah the call. That would be a call to Tess. When she found out about Gabriel’s stalker, which unfortunately happened to be while she was watching the news she went ballistic. She quickly put two and two together about my visit to L.A. According to Connor the only thing that settled her down was her favorite cherry cheesecake while he delicately spilled everything to her. Her frantic calls went from epic meltdowns and crying fits at the thought that someone was stalking Gabe and wanted to hurt me to being pissed off that no one had the balls to tell her the truth and me lying to her about my visit to L.A., which led to her yelling at me over the phone and demanding I get my butt on a plane and back to New York in one piece. Through all of her calls neither Gabe nor I confessed that we also had an intimate relationship, even though she subtly tried prying it out of us over the past week. Both of us decided that it was all new to us and wanted some extra time alone to see where we were heading. Our dilemma now was that Gabe wanted me to attend an awards dinner with him in two days, which would be our first public appearance together. The guilt of lying to Tess was getting to us because we loved her so much and then there was the fact that she was pregnant which meant she blew everything out of proportion and considering how calmly she reacted to the initial reason as to my visit to L.A. we didn’t even want to think how she’s react if she found out we were romantically