Healing Gabe (The Last Hangman MC #3)(46)

“I wanna watch.” Bennett chimes in, earning a slap on the back of the head from Gabe.

“No ogling my woman or her friends you f*cking perv!”

“Oh, come on! You’re taking the fun out of having to babysit them!” Ryan whines.

“I wish I could babysit Viv all day, that’s for sure.” Gabe looks at me smirking.

“Good to know.” I smirk back and flip him off.

“Oh, we so wanna know what’s going on between the two of you.” Ayd says clapping excitedly.

“Women…” Gabe shakes his head. “I’m out of here.” He takes the couple of steps to me and pulls me in for a passionate kiss. When we pull back, the girls are staring at us with their mouths open and the guys are smirking at us, fist pumping in Gabe’s direction.

“Men…” I shake my head.

“You love us.” Gabe squeezes my ass.

“I wouldn’t go that far.” I shrug.

He winks at me and kisses my nose. “I’ll see you later, call me if you need anything. I mean it.” He looks at me seriously until I nod, then he’s out the door.

“Do you happen to have a sister?” Ryan asks what seems like an innocent question but isn’t.

“Not anymore.” I sigh and walk to the patio.

“Well done, dickhead.” I hear Bennett tell him.

I sit outside for a few minutes before the girls join me with hot chocolate and freshly made cookies.

“Sorry about Ryan, he doesn’t know about Annie.” Ayd says rubbing my back.

“It’s alright, remembering her is still painful but there’s not much I can do.”

“I know. Soooo, how about you tell us what’s going on with Gabe?” Line grins mischievously.

“Uh…his sister is here…that’s a bit awkward.” I look at Nicole, hoping she’ll say she doesn’t want to hear any of it.

“Oh don’t mind me, I wanna know too.” She grins at me.

“Great. You’re as gross as your brother.” I frown and take a sip of hot chocolate. “What do you wanna know?”

“Everything!” All three exclaim at the same time, bursting out laughing.

“Oh shit, kill me now.” I roll my eyes.

“You know you wanna talk about it.” Ayd grins wide.

“I don’t know. No offense Nicole but your brother can be a real dickhead sometimes.” I chuckle.

“Amen to that, sister!” She holds her hand up for a high five. I clap my hand onto hers. “What did he do?”

“It’s complicated.” I sigh.

“Isn’t it always?” Line says. “Aleck was so f*cking stubborn trying to push me away to protect me, when he should’ve stayed close to me, but they’re never going to be rational when it comes to us.”

“Same with Gabe. He says he has feelings for me but doesn’t know how to express them, but I have a feeling he’s just using that as an excuse. He says that he wants to talk about it when all of this mess is solved. I don’t know when that will be and I don’t think that will actually happen.”

“After what happened years ago, he was a shell of himself. It took him a while to gain some of his self back. He spent his time making sure everyone around him was happy and finding their other halves. He was just content seeing others happy, which was difficult to see, knowing that he was desperate to be happy himself,” Nicole says sadly.

“I think he’s really sad deep down inside and doesn’t want to get his heart broken again. He just wants to protect himself and I get that, we’ve all been through something awful but we had someone fighting for us or worth fighting for. He has trust issues, like all our men. They can get all alpha but when it comes to feelings, they are worse than we are. He’s probably still getting used to the idea that you have feelings for him and want more with him. Give him some time to get over his stupid fear of commitment and he’ll come around.” Ayd says reassuringly.

“I know I’m probably being too hard on him and asking for too much. All I want is for him to love me the same way I love him. It’s hard to be okay when you’ve just told him you were falling for him and he tells you he doesn’t want that right now.” I sigh.

“One thing I know about my brother is that he’s always loved you. I might have been eight when you were around, but the way he talked about you was different than the way he was about Annie. He used to talk about her with fondness; while he talked about at you with adoration and lust.” Nicole says, rendering me speechless. I had no idea he was that way back then and this is confusing me even more whilst making me happy at the same time.

“Ugh, another f*cking dipshit trying to f*ck with my girls.” Ayd frowns making all of us laugh, despite the gravity of the situation.

The rest of the day passes quickly, we all tried to keep our minds off the men and the club business but throughout the day, you could catch each of the girls looking in the distance, clearly worrying about their other halves.





CHAPTER 18



Gabe

I feel like a f*cking * for pushing her away when she was giving me what I wanted and needed to hear. She’s in love with me. I didn’t react well at all but I couldn’t let myself react the way I wanted to, not with what’s going to happen in the next couple of days. I need to keep my head in the game, the moment I admit my feelings I won’t be able to keep my head in the game.