Chapter 17


    CHAPTER 17


    We were driving back to the back in silence. Gabby was sitting next to me with her arms crossed


    over her chest, slowly troking arm and looking out of the window.


    Cassy opened the door, thanked for the ride and got out as I stopped outside her house. Gabby


    opened her door quickly and went out to give her a hug and they said something incoherent and I


    didn’t want to listen in. I just wanted to get home. Every little thing that was keeping me from getting


    Gabby inside the house was pissing me off further.


    We drove up and I stopped the car outside the house. It was dark and everyone had gone of to bed.


    We walked up the stairs and neither one of us said a word.


    “Hi, there. How was your night?” My mom came out into the hallway just as we reached the top of


    the stairs. She was dressed in her nightgown with a morning robe tied around her. Had she been


    waiting up? She was always asleep by now.


    “It was…good,” Gabby said warily and smiled. That smile, the fakest smile I had ever seen but she


    had perfected it, so much was certain. I could see past it now though, I couldn’t before but now I


    did. I had seen her real smile, once, with Cassy. I wondered how long she had been wearing that


    smile for and if anyone else noticed.


    ‘Don’t bet on it. We both know how much you love betting’


    Shut it


    “And your night, Aiden, How was it?”


    “It was fine, mom. We’ll talk tomorrow,” I walked to the room, Gabby stood still for a moment, saying


    goodnight to my mom before walking over.


    “Hello, lover-” Sam was spread out on the bed in a skimpy thong and barely covering bra.


    I walked in, scanning her body and thinking about how good it would be to f*ck her right now but


    suddenly it shifted, in the blink of an eye and I wanted her out.


    “Get out.” I said and untied my tie and began unbuttoning my shirt. Her eyes fell and she red at


    me in dissbelief. Sam didn’t take ‘no’ for an asnwer, she never had. Whatever she wanted, she


    always got, one way or another. That was also the reason why I had told Gabby to stay of her radarContent ? provided by N?velDrama.Org.


    but I knew better then to belive she’d listen.


    “Why? So you can have her in the bed?” She asked and narrowed her eyes on Gabby.


    “Why don’t you just give that whore to a human and we-”


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    “I said get out! I’m tired.” I said and looked at her. Her head fell and she tied her robe around


    herself. She’d have to get back in her car and drive home, to which I couldn’t give a single f*ck.


    Sam walked out but not before giving Gabby a death re. I smirked, knowing she was pissed as


    f*ck but also because something about how Gabby reacted was quite amusing. She didn’t wince, at


    all, sh red back and rose a brow as Ashely passed her.


    “Charming,” she said under her breath when the door closed. I pretended as though I hadn’t her


    and hung up the shirt.


    She


    began


    an unbuttoning her cardigan as walked past me and into the bathroom, closing the door behind her


    and locking it. I heard the shower being turned on and decided to just get into bed. I looked at the


    closed door. She never changed her clothes in the room, she always hid away. And her clothes, she


    had a bunch of skimpy dresses and tops, the kind that makes you hard just thinking about her in


    them but she always other stuff on as well. Gabby never really showed much skin and I was starting


    to belive that it couldn’t be all prudish behaviour.


    -Gabby’s POV~


    The shower was getting warm and the ss walls were steaming up. I got undressed and tossed


    everything in the hamper. Tonight had been like a blur. For a moment, on the dance floor with


    Cassy, I felt liberated and free. When I danced it was like I didn’t have a care in the world. The


    music drowned out my thoughts and fears and I was just…living.


    Then Aiden showed up, how had he even known where we were? He broke the guys arm but in


    retrospect, I was a married woman, I shouldn’t have dancing with another guy.


    Married, I was married.


    “Holy shit.” I breathed and looked at my reflection.


    I saw it on my shoulder, the permanent reminder of the life that had been. I turned an inch, the scar


    that went from over the top of my shoulder down to my shoulderde. If I turned more I would see


    the rest of them, so I didn’t. My cardiganid on the floor and the dress was beside it. I had seen


    other girls in theses dresses, the speghetti straps and open backs and they all looked so gorgeous.


    They didn’t have to


    hide.


    I got in the shower and allowed the warm water to wash over me and rx my bones. Cassy had


    been so great tonight. I had more fun tonight then I could ever remember having.


    Aiden wasying in bed, his eyes darting over the screen on the tv.


    I was in my pjs and climbed into the bed. It felt unnatural. I wanted to sleep alone, Sam coulde


    back and sleep with Aiden, she could have him, all of him..


    “Don’t do that again.” He said. His first words to me since we got in the car at the club.


    “Do what?”


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    “Leave without saying a word.”


    “I’m not allowed to leave the pack?” I asked in shock.


    “Not without letting me know where you’re going, you don’t know this ce.”


    “I was with Cassy, she knows this ce well enough for the both of us,” I said and pulled the covers


    up higher.


    “I dont give a shit about Cassy. Leave like this one more time and I’ll make it so that you can’t ever


    leave again.”


    “Are you


    you being serious right now? You don’t own me.” I spat and sat up in the bed.


    “You’re my wife, I am your husband. I might not own you but you’re mine, you belong to me and it is


    my job to keep you safe. I can’t do that if you’re out there doing god knows what and I have no


    f*cking clue where to go if something were to happen.”


    I didnt answer him because I didn’t know what to say. It sounded like he wasing from a good


    ce but his words were twisted in knots. I couldn’t make sense of them, or him.


    “And one more thing-” he said and turned of the ty. He turned and faced me, his eyes boring into


    mine and a little tug on his lips as he leaned closer. He brought all of his walls down, letting me see


    all of him, so that I would know that his next words weren’t a threat, but a promise.


    “-If I ever see you that close to another man again, I’ll kill him.” He said and turned of the bedside


    lamp.


    My heart picked up speed, not because I was scared or nervous but because I could see it in his


    eyes, he wasn’t joking.


    Why would he even care? He didn’t want me, I didn’t want him, so why did he care? Was it becuase


    of his image as Alpha? It had to be, that was the only logical reason.


    Morning came and I hadn’t slept at all. I was exhausted from the moment I opened my eyes. Aden


    was still in bed as well, his arm covered his eyes and his chest rose slowly with every breath.


    I


    I looked around the room, wondering when this would all start to feel normal.


    breakfast had been put out downstairs and I was eager to eat.


    “Hi again,” Cole said.


    “Hi”


    “Heard you were on an adventurest night.” He said and smirked.


    “Heard you were on one as well,” I said and put a strawberry in my mouth.


    “Me, not so much. But your husband and his girlfriend got pretty hot and heavy in-”


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    “ENOUGH!” jumped in my seat and so did Cole. His head fell and he looked down at the table. It


    was Marie who had spoken. Everyone turned their heads, her eyes were burning and she looked


    angrily over


    everyone but especially Cole who refused to lift his head as it was cast down in shame.


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