Chapter 15

15

CALEB

“ T hat fiancée of yours sold us. She’s the only reason we are agreeing to this deal,” Martha tells me when I sit back down, my eyes still following Gabriella. I don’t want her going off on her own. The girl is too fucking gorgeous to be left alone. I’m sure someone will try and steal her away from me. I’d kill them.

“I don’t think he’s listening to you, honey.” Ben chuckles.

“You said I got the deal.” When I lose sight of Gabriella in the crowd, I shift my focus back to the Greens.

“You don’t seem happy about it.” Martha eyes me. The woman watches everything.

“I’m finding that the things that used to please me do not anymore,” I admit.

“Falling in love does that.” Ben clamps his hand down on my shoulder, giving it a squeeze. It's something a father would do. A weird emotion fills me. Even the way I perceive the world has started to change.

“Love makes you see the world differently,” I say absently.

“It does,” Ben agrees.

“Well, the deal is yours. I know you won’t be getting rid of the programs now." I turn my head to meet Martha’s eyes.

“No, I won’t be.” With a few words, Gabriella had turned my whole plan around.

“Thank you.” Martha's expression is filled with a mixture of sadness and relief.

“You know—” I start but am cut off when I hear Gabriella say my name. I immediately stand up, seeing her heading straight toward me. She is almost running. “Are you okay?” I rush toward her.

“No, I’m not.” She lets out a huff; her cheeks are flushed.

“Who upset you?” I cast a quick glance over her head and notice Lauren following closely.

“She said it was fake, and you asked me to marry you to fool the Greens,” Gabriella blurts out in a rush. “Now tell her she’s a liar.” She turns and points at Lauren, who has grown two shades whiter.

“You’re fired.”

“But, sir, why else have you been practically stalking this girl? Every day getting the shitty coffee, buying the place after she was fired, oh, and let's not forget buying her building and putting a bodyguard on her.” Lauren throws her hands up.

“You did all that?” Gabriella stares up at me with wide eyes. At least she isn’t running.

“I did all that because I have been obsessed and in love with Gabriella from the moment she gave me her umbrella.” I say this, never taking my eyes off Gabriella. “I don’t need the Greens’ deal,” I add. “Besides, I’m thinking I shouldn’t buy it. A partnership with them might be better.” I cup Gabriella's cheek. I know everyone is watching this all play out, but I don’t care. “Say something.”

“You really did all that for me?” Her eyes fill with tears.

“I did.” I’m not going to lie to her. “And I’d do it all over again.” There isn’t anything I wouldn’t do to have her. To feel the way I do when she’s next to me.

“Because you love me?”

“More than anything.”

“I love you, too.”

“Gabriella.” I pull her into my arms and kiss her. She clings to me, kissing me right back. It takes me a second to realize the crowd is cheering.

“Oh my God.” Gabriella buries her face in my chest.

“We’re leaving.” I need to get the fuck out of here and be alone with her. Gabriella nods her head in agreement against my chest.

“We’ll get back in touch after the holidays,” Ben says. I give him a nod before leading my girl out.

The second the elevator doors close, I’m on her again. I lift her into my arms. She wraps her legs around my waist as we kiss. I rock my cock against her pussy. Gabriella lets out a small moan. I need to be inside of her. To feel every inch of her and finally claim her as mine.

“You really stalked me?” Gabriella asks between kisses.

“Yes.”

“I love that you’re obsessed with me. Is that insane?”

"You could be insane, and I would still love you." She lets out a small giggle.

“No one has ever loved me or been obsessed with me before.”

“I promise, I’ll spend my life giving you both in excess.” The elevator doors open, and I step off, carrying her toward our bedroom.

We tug at each other's clothes. When she’s naked, I lift her, tossing her onto the bed, making her laugh.

“I get to see it.” Gabriella scrambles to her knees as I pull my boxer briefs down. They are a bit sticky. I’d come a little while dry humping her in the elevator. “Whoa,” she says when my cock springs free. When she licks her lips, I find myself suppressing a groan. I can't help but envision her putting her mouth on it. I take a deep breath to try to get myself together. I could come just thinking about it.

“Not right now, sweetheart,” I tell her, putting one knee on the bed.

“What?” Her bottom lip puffs out. I grab her, pulling her under me, covering her body with mine.

“I want inside of you,” I tell her. It feels so good to press my naked body against hers. I’m never going to leave this bed. “Going to eat you first. Need to get you ready.”

“No way.” Gabriella wraps her legs around me. It shifts the tip of my cock to her opening. I close my eyes, fighting for control. “I need you inside of me.” My little vixen lifts her hips, making my cock sink into her an inch. I’m trying not to ram myself inside of her like a barbaric caveman.

“Fuck, you're tight.” I open my eyes. “I never want to hurt you.”

“It does hurt, though. I ache inside. I need you.”

Fuck. I was trying to take both our first times slowly, but there is no way I’m going to be able to deny her what she wants. Her words shattered what little self-control I was hanging on to. I slip my hand between us, finding her clit.

“Caleb,” she moans. Her pussy flutters around the head of my cock. I push forward, breaking through her innocence. I sink completely into her, smothering the gasp that escapes her with my mouth. The pleasure is so overwhelming that my mind can’t even process it.

I fucking come, but I keep my focus on her, still kissing and working her clit. When her breathing starts to change and her body relaxes again, I lift my mouth from hers.

“Don’t stop.” Her pussy flutters around my cock, welcoming me home. I shift my body, pulling my hand out to get a different angle to thrust in and out of her. Not only so that I can reach deep inside her but so that I can rub against her clit at the same time.

Gabriella lets out soft moans that grow louder with each thrust. Her pussy is still so damn tight that it’s almost painful. That doesn’t stop me from already being on edge again. I can’t get enough of her. I never will.

All I can think about is coming in her and what that could mean each time I bottom out inside of her. I swear I think I could come for days at the thought of putting my baby in her.

“Caleb!” She lets out a scream, arching her back and pressing her tits into my chest.

“Fuck,” I grit out. I feel a tingle at the base of my spine as her pussy locks around mine. I give one final thrust, planting myself all the way inside of her. My climax slams through me, pouring into her. Her pussy keeps spasming, milking my release from my cock.

“Wow,” Gabriella whispers.

With the last of my energy, I roll us. I let my cock slip free of her pussy, pulling her into my arms. Gabriella snuggles into me.

“I knew she was lying,” Gabriella whispers, tracing her fingers along my chest. “She told me I should run.” My hold on her tightens. “I did.” She kisses my chest. “Straight to you.”

“That’s how it should always be.”

Gabriella gives me a soft smile. “I have spent so much of my life running from people. Scared they might hurt me. Today was the first time I ever thought of running to someone.”

“Gabriella.” A wave of emotions fills me.

“Maybe I’ll melt some of the ice I hear you have in those veins.” Ah, she figured that out. It was only a matter of time.

“I’m sweet to you.”

“What you did today with the Greens was sweet, and that wasn’t to me.” Gabriella had made that happen. I had thought about what she would do in the situation with the Greens. “And you want babies and a family.”

“I’m hoping we’ve already started the process of the baby part.” Her cheeks go pink when she realizes what I mean. “You have changed me, Gabriella.” There is no denying that.

“Not too much, though.” A smirk plays on her lips. “I kinda like that you’re a grump to everyone but me.”

“So just a grump, not an asshole?” I chuckle.

“Yep!” she chirps. I roll, pinning her under me.

“That I can do.”

For her I’d do anything.