Chapter 69

AN INTERVIEW WITH GAbrIEL AND RUBY

GAbrIEL:

Okay,so you want the good and the bad and all that.

Well, right now I’m in Paris.

Which is why this is a video interview.

I’m playing international hockey.

Pro teams are begging me to come back to the states.

I will eventually.

Right now, this is about Ruby.

She got the chance to fly to Paris and work on some fashion projects and here we are.

How many guys will chase the woman they love across the world, right?

(Gabriel pauses and touches his chin)

Yeah, the bad stuff.

You’re wondering about my father.

I mean, what do I say? You can just look it up. There are endless articles now about it. Someone even said it should be a documentary too.

Fuck that.

I want nothing to do with it.

Any of it.

What my father did was his own doing.

I’m saddened by it. It makes me feel sick when I think about it.

I have people threatening to sue me for what my father did.

Some guy even got some loud mouth lawyer to say that my hockey talent and future earnings are because of my father stealing money from his client.

I’ve been paying my agent and lawyers and a PR firm a ton of money to fight back.

I’m not the bad guy here. I never was.

My father gets to spend basically the rest of his life in prison for what he did.

There’s a chance he could get out early with good behavior, but by then, he’ll be an old man. Literally.

(Gabriel pauses)

Do I have plans to visit him?

No.

I’m not sure what my plans are with him.

The situation is complicated.

Here’s what I do know though…

Ruby?

She’s the best thing that ever happened to me.

Strong. Stubborn. Sexy.

And I get a front row seat to watch her live out her dream.

What more can I ask for?

(Gabriel laughs)

Okay, maybe I can ask Ruby for anal…

But she’d probably threaten to kill me.

God, I love her.

RUBY:

He said what?

He was talking about my… my backdoor…?

Oh, Gabriel.

Sometimes I wish he’d just use his mouth for the one good thing it’s there for.

Yes, that’s a reference to him going down on me.

Anyway, what should I-

(Ruby stops and looks at her phone. She stands up.)

Shit. I have to go. We have two models getting dressed and the factory sent the wrong type of material.

And the color is wrong!

(Ruby sighs)

I’m sorry about this.

Listen, everything is wild and fun, okay?

You know how I feel about Gabriel.

The sexy college hockey player I sort of bought for a good time and then fell in love with. I’ll sell you the movie rights, okay?

I can’t tell you what it means to me that he came to Paris.

Being here alone would have been really hard for me. Even if that in itself is hard to admit.

Gabriel didn’t say a word either. He just joined me.

That’s the best part of him.

He knows me. He knows what I what and what I need.

Not just in the bedroom either.

My plan is to finish up in Paris in the next three months and launch something really big back home.

That way Gabriel can finally sign a pro deal.

We’ll have to fly back and forth from Paris quite a bit, but that’s okay, it’ll be worth it for both of us.

It’s really that simple in a way.

If you love someone… you support them.

(Ruby’s phone rings)

(Ruby answers the call…)

Listen up you little fuck! You even think about trying to fuck me on these colors and fabric and I will rip your dick off and sew it to your forehead so you look like a limp dick unicorn!