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Gabriel I'm playing a game with myself that I know I'm not going to win. I'm starting to care more about Arian than is necessary and I don't think it'll end well for me but right now, sharing her bed with her head resting on my chest and my arm wrapped around her protectively, I don't care about the consequences. Mom and I had that talk - the one she'd told me about yesterday. I'd not liked it one bit. She wants me to get rid of Arian and employ someone else because she believes that Arian seems like an unstable woman. I told her Arian is just suffering from some traumatic events she'd witnessed in her life but she refused to listen to me and I felt like I'd heard more than enough from her and to avoid our argument from escalating, I said my goodbyes and left the hospital. Kary loves Arian, scars and all and I know Arian loves her just as much. She does everything and beyond what a nanny should do and her presence here has made Lucille's absence go unnoticed which is what I've
Never Say Goodbye    Chapter Fifty Three
Gabriel Two weeks later Today marks the second month since I sent Lucille to Bali. She's not called or texted since I told her not to and it's been wonderful. Kareena seems happier and I am equally as happy to be away from her as well and it's all thanks to Arian.Our sleeping arrangements have changed all thanks to her recurrent nightmares that sometimes, even scares me which makes me wonder just how fucked up her husband had been that he'd reduced such a lovely woman to nothing more than a quivering mess. I got home late from work and I figured that she'd be asleep so I went upstairs to my room to take a shower, changed into my night wear and headed downstairs to my home office to finish up the work I brought home.I was so immersed in the document I am reading on my laptop that I didn't hear the sound of glass breaking until Theresa barged into my office and called my attention to it. The noise had come from Arian's room so I ran down the hallway to her room and met her throwing
Never Say Goodbye    Chapter Fifty Four
Arian I don't know what to make of Mr Cruz's - Gabriel's proposal but I have to admit that it is very tempting. I know he's more than capable of making me experience a mind blowing orgasm but I still have some dignity left and I won't subject myself to being his mistress. He's the type of man you sleep with just once and you get addicted to him real fast, you come back for seconds and thirds - and forever. I place a shaky hand to my lips, still feeling the tingling sensation of his mouth on mine and I almost give in to him. "Having second thoughts?" He asks. "Yes. It's really tempting but I can't." I reply. "Can't or don't want to?" He arches a skeptical brow. "Both." I say. "Also... you're a married man. I'd be committing adultery." "Hmm." He hums, settling back on the bed and wraps one arm around his pillow. He stares at me from under his long eyelashes for an intense minute, making me squirm. "What?" I snap. "It's your call." His shoulder lifts in a half shrug. I narrow my
Never Say Goodbye    Chapter Fifty Five
Gabriel It's crazy how my mind plays tricks on me every time I kiss Arian as we make love - makes me think back to the kiss I stole from my Kareena just before she disappeared from my life without a trace years ago. It makes me think that I'm kissing my Kareena but I just don't know it and it's seriously fucking with my head. I want to pound into her, lose control and go all caveman on her ass but I don't want to scare her into ending this. I can't end this - I don't want to end this, not when it's this good. Apart from the unfortunate incident with Lucille that I don't count as anything - Arian is my first. And if I never find Kareena, I'd like to spend the rest of my life with Arian if she'd have me. "Yes, Gabriel." She moans. "Harder. I want it harder. Make me crazy. Make me forget him. Make me yours." I know she's in the throes of passion and doesn't care about whatever comes out of her mouth as long as she comes but I don't care either and I show her that. "You want it h
Never Say Goodbye    Chapter Fifty Six
Gabriel Have you ever had a best friend who knew you better than he knew himself? Who could detect, just by looking at your face, when you're lying or telling the truth? Who knew exactly what you've been up to, without you telling him? Well, you're in luck if you don't have such a friend. Simon and I have been friends since we were in diapers. We did everything together, went to the same elementary school, primary school and then after I returned from Italy with my parents at the age of sixteen, graduated from the same high school. As if that was not enough, we went to the same university but studied different courses. I went for business administration and he went for architecture. We're not blood brothers but you'd never know if you saw us together. It infuriates me sometimes that he can read me so well while he's a closed book and getting information from him that doesn't pertain to work is worse than pulling teeth. I am yet to say a word and he already knows why I called hi
Never Say Goodbye    Chapter Fifty Seven
Gabriel "You're a caveman, Gabriel Cruz." Arian's raspy voice makes me hard again. "I doubt I'd be able to sit well for a week."I turn on my side and prop my hand under my head and smile big at her. She looks so relaxed in my bed like we've been sharing it for years instead of a few days. Hopefully, I'll be able to keep her this way and never see her beautiful eyes be anything but happy."I didn't hear you complaining when I was busy making you come." I tweak her nose. "You loved it."She lets out a loud yawn and I chuckle but it's cut short as I follow suit, suddenly feeling very sleepy. I lift myself up, grab the blanket from the edge of the bed and throw it over us so she won't freeze to death. I like putting the AC on full blast because I'm so used to it but I don't think Arian is."Goodnight beautiful." I place a gentle kiss on her forehead. "Dream about me.""Goodnight." She snuggles up to me, sighs contentedly and drifts off to sleep. I follow suit ten minutes later with a sm
Never Say Goodbye    Chapter Fifty Eight
Arian I'm seated in the living room watching TV with Kelly and we're laughing at the stupidity of the characters on the show when the door of the living room opens and Gabriel's twin sister walks in with her mother. Kelly and I scramble up from the sofa and curtsy, then we glance at each other with wide eyes as if we're asking each other why the two women are here. They're both wearing gorgeous dresses that have the same pattern but in different colors and they're both looking down their noses at us. "Good morning Mrs Cruz, Mrs Wilson." Kelly greets them. "Good morning Kelly. How are you?" Mrs Cruz asks. "I'm fine ma'am." Kelly replies. "What would you both like to drink?" "We're good. We're not staying long." Her daughter says. "We're here to see her." She points to me. Kelly glances at me then nudges me with her elbow and I look up to see her jerking her head towards Gabriella. "Leave us Kelly." Mrs Cruz orders. Kelly curtsies, turns off the TV and hurries out of the livin
Never Say Goodbye    Chapter Fifty Nine
Gabriel A week later Having feelings for a woman who's incapable of reciprocating those feelings in return is something a man should seriously avoid. I wouldn't recommend it but It's hard to take my own advice so I've stopped trying to fight my feelings for Arian. It'll be okay if she never likes me back. It'll even be okay if she finds someone else that she eventually falls for. Lies! All of it! I'll go mad if she falls for someone else and it'll never be okay if she doesn't like me back, which is why I came up with the idea of a non-date outing with her. I've managed to mend cracked fences with my parents so Kary is spending the weekend with them which makes Arian available to go out with me. I just hope she'll say yes to it anyway. I find her lying on the sofa in the library with her legs waving in the air, reading a book. She had a nightmare two nights ago about what happened last week and she almost injured me as she struggled in her sleep. Fortunately, she screamed my nam
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Never Say Goodbye    Epilogue
Arian Six months later Dearly beloved, we're gathered here today in the sight of God to join this man and this woman in holy matrimony. Not to be entered lightly, holy matrimony should be entered into, solemnly and with reverence and honor." The priest begins in Italian. "Into this holy agreement, these two persons come together to be joined. If any person or people here can show cause as to why these two should not be joined in holy matrimony, speak now or forever hold your peace." Gabriel and I turn at the same time to look behind us but no one speaks up and we face the priest again. Majority of the people here probably don't understand what he's saying so we're good to go. "Do you, Gabriel Emerson Cruz, take Arian Katerina Macavinta to be your lawful wedded wife and live together in the estate of holy matrimony? Do you promise to love, comfort, honor and keep her, in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, for better or for worse as long as you both shall live?" The pri
Never Say Goodbye    Chapter Eighty Three
Gabriel Two years later Dear Gabriel, Two decades ago, I was a little girl who had been abandoned by her beloved father and I'd thought myself unworthy of anyone's love but you saw me, took your time to get to know me and at the end of that day, I went back to the orphanage with the knowledge that I was worthy of being loved by someone. Months ago, I thought I was returning home to get far away from the clutches of my ex husband and I vowed never to get involved with any man but I met you and you turned my life upside down. You made me happier than I'd ever been in years and for that, I'll be forever grateful to you. I'm sorry that I didn't tell you I am the girl you'd been waiting for and I didn't even realize it until you told me about your story. I'm sorry for leaving you and your daughter after I promised not to go, but I hope you can understand why I have to. Rafael is finally dead and I'm free from him forever, thanks to your father. I need to find myself again. I need t
Never Say Goodbye    Chapter Eighty Two
Gabriel Arian probably thinks I'm out of my mind for challenging her ex husband to a fight. He's a dangerous man who has no qualms about killing someone in cold blood but I don't care. He made her life miserable for ten long years and even after being incarcerated in prison, he was still tormenting her in her dreams but it has to stop now. She was his and now she's mine and I will make sure I win this fight, then take pleasure in blowing his brains out with his own fucking gun. I have the upper hand in this fight and I don't give him an inch, throwing punches after punches making him bleed but he also doesn't give me an inch either as he throws a sucker punch that almost knocks me out. My ears ring from the punch and my vision becomes blurry but I shake myself out of it and attack him again and we end up rolling around on the floor trying to get the best of each other. My attention becomes divided as I see Lucille pick up one of the guns from the floor, turn off the safety and
Never Say Goodbye    Chapter Eighty One
Arian "She has a gun." The voice in my head whispers fearfully. "She has a fucking gun!" I feel the cold sweat that has broken out on my face and I have trouble breathing. I hate guns, hate seeing them because I've had to live with gun-toting, knife-toting men like Rafael and his men for ten years. I'd prayed to God to keep me away from guns when I came to this country, but I'd ended up taking a bullet for this man in front of me and now his ex wife wants to exact revenge on him. Gabriel moves to stand in front of me, shielding me from his ex wife's murderous glare, all the while trying to placate her to drop the gun so they could talk calmly about this, but his words fall on deaf ears. "Did you think I was joking when I told you that I'd kill you and the woman you choose to leave me for?" She asks. "How stupid of you to think I'd just accept defeat like that, Gabriel Cruz! You're mine and no one else's." I don't know why Mrs Cruz and her daughter aren't here to see a certifiable
Never Say Goodbye    Chapter Eighty
Gabriel I leave my car running, the automatic gear in Park and the door open as I race up the steps to Lucille's front door and I press the doorbell incessantly until the housekeeper appears to open the door for me. I don't give her the chance to say anything as I march into the house and head straight for the living room. She calls my name but I don't answer until I walk into the living room and my steps falter when I come face to face with my wife - soon to be ex wife - having sex with an unknown guy on the sofa. "Mr Cruz!" Helen stops beside me but she turns her back quickly, unlike me, as Lucille and the guy break apart. "What the hell, Gabe?!" She snaps. "I'm so sorry, ma'am. I tried to stop him but he barged in before I could." Helen apologizes. Lucille picks up her discarded dress from the floor and puts it on as the guy hastily dresses up but he doesn't quite finish and hurries out of the living room with his shirt and shoes. Good for him that he had the good sense t
Never Say Goodbye    Chapter Seventy Nine
Gabriel Six weeks later Walking out of the High Court with the knowledge that in a few weeks, I'll be a single guy once again has me grinning from ear to ear. The judge had listened to both sides of our story and even as Lucille had laid it thick on her tears for the judge to rule in her favor... He hadn't and had declared our marriage irretrievable, but it hadn't been his final decision and that was good enough for me. I'd wanted Arian inside the court with me but she'd refused to go in, saying it reminded her of her own divorce and I'd not pressed her. Seeing her waiting for me on the steps of the building makes me very happy and my smile widens when she looks up and sees me. "How did it go?" She asks. "I'll be a single guy in a few weeks." I reply. "I don't know why he didn't just give a decree absolute instead of a decree nisi. It's all good, though, because I have finally beaten Lucille at her own game. She won't be Mrs Cruz for much longer." "It's fast." She remarks. "Min
Never Say Goodbye    Chapter Seventy Eight
Lucille Gabriel has finally done it. He wants to get rid of me so he can have a good life with that bitch and my stupid daughter who wouldn't know a good mother from a bad one even if it hit her in the face. She has forgotten that it's because of me, because of my love for her father that she's alive today, but I'm going to let it slide with her because she's just a little girl.I'm sure Gabriel has been feeding her lies about me, which was the reason why she'd not wanted me at the party. One thing Gabriel Cruz doesn't know is that inasmuch as I love him, my love could easily turn to hatred and I did promise to never let him be happy with any other woman. If killing him or her would ensure the end of their budding relationship, then so be it. I'm game."Are you really letting him go?" Samantha settles down on the single wingback chair with a drink in her hand. "It's unlike you.""I'm making him think he has won, Sam." I send her a smirk. "He may win the case in court and we'll get d
Never Say Goodbye    Chapter Seventy Seven
Arian"This is so surreal." I mutter. My head is resting on Gabriel's chest after our intense love making. It was better than the previous times. Although, it could be because we'd both gone two months without it and we'd been so starved for one another. All I know is that I'm not so sure I can say no to this man anymore."It is, isn't it?" I can hear the smile in his voice. "Being here with you, like this again. I feel like I'm dreaming.""Then, we're both having the same dream." I chuckle."I love you, Arian." He bends his head to plant a kiss on my hair. "It feels really good to let it out now.""Will you be okay with me saying I like you?" I ask in a tentative voice. "I can't go any further than that.""I'm more than okay with it." He squeezes my shoulder. "Half bread is better than nothing.""Do you think... Kary will hate me if I tell her I don't think I can be her mother? I mean, legally?" I look up at him. "What do you think?""I think she'll love you either way, Arian." He re
Never Say Goodbye    Chapter Seventy Six
Gabriel "I'll go away." Lucille says. "I just came to say goodbye to you."Kary's gaze slides to mine in excitement, as if she's already guessed why her mother is saying that. "Does this mean... She won't be in our lives anymore?""Yes, baby." I nod. "We're finally getting a divorce.""Yay!" She claps her hands excitedly. "Thank you, daddy!" She wraps her small arms around my neck."I guess this is my cue to leave." Lucille's voice cracks with emotion as she finally realizes that even her daughter doesn't want her around. "Goodbye... Kareena. Can I hug you?"Kary literally recoils from her, burying her face in my neck. I stroke her back to calm her down and gesture for Lucille to leave. Thankfully, she listens to me and walks away."Is she gone?" Kary asks."Yes, baby." I reply. "You won't see her again if you don't want to.""I don't want to see her again." She reaches for Arian and I hand her over to Arian. "I love you, Arian. I want you to be my mother."Arian's wide eyed gaze sli
