Alpha’s Betted Bride (Gabriella)

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 glared 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 radar 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 glare. 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 glared 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 glass 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 shoulderblade. If I turned more I would see the rest of them, so I didn't. My cardigan laid 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 relax my bones. Cassy had been so great tonight. I had more fun tonight then I could ever remember having.

Aiden was laying 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 could come 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 place."

"I was with Cassy, she knows this place 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 was coming from a good place 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 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 adventure last 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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CHAPTER 17

"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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