Steele Hearts Redemption (11 page)

I jumped off the bed and just like Gabe
silently got dressed in the dark. Using the light from my cell
phone I armed myself with the knife I kept with me and silently
crept out of the room with Gabe following close behind. As my eyes
adjusted to the shadows I crept downstairs and instantly sought
Cane and Dell as they blended in the shadows in their
pre-designated spots. Securing Gabe in our hiding spot my eyes
fixated on the shadow creeping around in the dark. He stood in the
middle of the living room taking in the personal space of his prey
and as I saw the relaxed slouch of his shoulders and reassured
myself he was not holding a weapon I let out a piercing whistle
signaling to Cane and Dell to take him down. They were on him in
seconds before he realized something was up and over four hundred
pounds was gunning for him. I gave Cane and Dell the time they
needed to properly secure him before turning on the light. It was
exactly who I said it was. Bernie Wilson, an assistant of an
assistant of an assistant who worked for Gabe. He was like
wallpaper, invisible in a crowd. He was literally foaming at the
mouth now and a streak of curses spewed from his mouth before he
noticed Gabe standing behind me. His eyes dropped as if he was
ashamed of his behavior and when he looked up again his eyes
fixated on me.

“This is all your fault. You came here and
distracted him from his passion and kept him hidden away. How could
you do that?” he screeched.

Gabe stepped forward and before I could stop
him he asked him,

“Why were you stalking me?”

“I wasn’t stalking you Gabriel. We work
together. You and I have been a great team for years, making
outstanding movies together.”

Definitely disillusioned I thought to
myself.

“Okay so what gives with the photos?” Gabriel
pushed on, surprisingly calm.

“They were reminders of how great we worked
together. You the star, the face the public wants and I controlling
everything else. Don’t you see Gabriel our relationship is
co-dependent on each other. Those photos were a reminder of that.
That I know who you really are and I’m always watching your
back.”

If he kept rambling this was definitely going
to be a long night but at least he was talking. I discretely
signaled to Cane. It was time to get the cops involved.

He was still talking when the cops arrived
and they had no problem getting the whole story from him. He
suspected I was responsible for Gabe’s seclusion so he took it upon
himself to deal with what he saw as a problem. He told the cops he
had every intention of getting rid of me, which was his purpose of
breaking into the house. That I did not see coming and from the
tightening of Gabe’s jaw when he heard that I knew it was taking
all the self control he had to stopping himself from ripping Bernie
apart.

It didn’t take long after the cops arrived
for the press to descend in full force. With a few phone calls Gabe
had his public relations people racing to the house. It was almost
six in the morning when an official statement was giving and
everyone who needed to be updated on the situation was. With one
final call to Connor in New York to update him, I finally hung up
the phone and tumbled into bed with Gabe.

**********

Butterfly kisses on my neck and the gently
massaging of my breast woke me. This was definitely becoming my
favorite way of waking up. A tiny moan from me alerted him I was
fully awake and within seconds his lips were on mine devouring and
eliciting all the sexual awakening from my body. I couldn’t imagine
my life without this and I refused to. Not now anyhow. I didn’t
know where Gabe and I went from here but wherever we did I knew in
my heart if it ended soon there wouldn’t be anyone out there who
would be able to compare to Gabe. He entered me and in that moment
I surrendered my heart, body and soul to him. I couldn’t allow
myself to convey in words how I felt so I allowed my body to do my
talking. I knew without a shadow of a doubt I was in love with
Gabriel but with everything that’s surrounding my life I couldn’t
embroil Gabe in the drama that followed me with a declaration of
love. For now I would accept what was in front of me and when it
was time to leave I would cherish the time I had with him.

“Come for me baby,” he whispered with a
labored breath.

I lost control then and tumbled into the
abyss he pushed me into every time he took me.

“Good morning to you too,” I whispered,
finally catching my breath.

**********

The day flew by with me dealing with the
aftermath of my stalker, leaving me no time to deal with a problem
I had that was way bigger than any stalker. It was forefront in my
mind and making me extremely agitated and angry. After waking her
up this morning to an intense session of fantastic sex I left and
retreated to the study to make some phone calls. Two hours later I
went in search of her but hung back when I heard her on her phone
in the bedroom. The conversation she was having made me see red. If
she thought now that her assignment was over I was simply going to
stand by and allow her to jump on the first available flight back
to New York she had another thing coming.

Eight hours later and I was ready for a
fight, whether she wanted it or not.

I stepped into the bedroom just as she was
coming out of the bathroom and from the looks of her, after a nice
relaxing bath.

She didn’t see me standing by the door as she
dropped her towel and began rummaging through the drawer she took
over for her sinful little scraps of underwear. The woman
definitely had a sexy body. My body began reacting to hers and I
quietly cursed myself as I began searching for things to think
about to make my erection go away. I wanted a fight and needed to
make her know there was no way in hell I was allowing her to leave
tomorrow.

Bunny rabbits! There’s nothing sexual about
bunny rabbits. Sure they’re cute and fuzzy and have adorable little
button noses and kids love them but there is definitely nothing
sexual about them. Of course Ally has an adorable little nose as
well. In fact she has the perfect nose to fit in with her beautiful
face that goes with her slamming body that I want to possess every
waking moment.

Crap I’m getting even harder. Bunny rabbits
my ass!

“Hey you’re finally back. I didn’t hear you
come in,” she said startling me out of my introspective.

I smiled at her but from the look on her face
it must have been a weird looking smile that made her think I was
having some sort of mental aneurysm when infact I was actually
chasing bunny rabbit away from my mind because she asked,

“Gabe is every alright? Are you okay?”

“Yeah everything’s fine. Just a long fucking
day,” I sighed, trying to sound as normal as possible.

“Long night and day right.”

“Yeah….”

We stood in silence looking at each other and
as much as I needed to say what I wanted to say I didn’t have the
heart to start a fight with her. I wanted her to stay, no I needed
her to stay but I didn’t want her to do so because I coerced her
to. I needed her to see how good we were together and want to see
where what we had between us was going and give it a chance because
she wanted too.

“Ally….”

“Gabe….”

“You go first,” I said.

She stood silent for a few seconds longer,
nervously twisting her hands, completely oblivious to how adorable
she looked when she was nervous as well as naked. Finally, with a
deep breath she said,

“I’m leaving tomorrow. But before I go I need
you to know something. This….thing….between us Gabe…I’m not very
good at expressing my feelings but….it means a lot to me. I’m not
too sure where we go from here but I just wanted you to know that
no matter what you decided, what we have between us is good….”

“It’s not good Ally….”

Her face fell. I walked up to her and stood
toe to toe with her. Cupping her chin I pulled up her face so she
had nowhere else to look but directly in my eyes when I said
it.

“It’s great, it’s extraordinary, it’s
magical, and it’s everything I want.”

The tears gleamed in her eyes and I knew
without a doubt she felt everything I felt.

“What do you want Ally?”

“You…”

“You have me baby….Stay, please?”

With tears streaming down her face she nodded
yes. I grabbed her and picked her up, her legs wrapped around me
and then I kissed her. It wasn’t one of those greedy, sexually
charged kisses where all I’m thinking about is ripping her clothes
off and taking her before I exploded. No. This kiss was filled with
the passion and the intensity of our emotions and promises of
tomorrows and even though neither of us ever said it, it was filled
with love.

**********

“Bite the bullet babe. You need to make that
call.”

I shot Gabe my most evil glare and he had the
nerve to grin at my dilemma.

“Why don’t you make the call. She’s your
sister-in-law,” I snapped at him before picking up my phone for
what seem like the tenth time.

“And have my ass chewed out by a hormonally
charged pregnant woman whose obsession with cheese cake has no
bounds? No thank you. I’d rather you deal with that freight
train.”

Its been seven days since I made the decision
to extend my stay with Gabe, giving this blinding attraction we
have for each other a chance to see where it led and I must admit
it’s blissful. It’s my own slice of paradise and I cherish every
moment I have with Gabe. The sex was phenomenal and we couldn’t get
enough of each other and then there were those cherished moments we
spent trying to learn everything we could about each other as we
took long walks, hand in hand on the beach or extra long baths. The
only problem we had, as Gabe rightfully put it, was my hormonally
charged pregnant sister. After the shit hit the fan with Gabe’s
stalker we were bombarded with phone calls from his parents, Tyler
and Mavis and Betsy, who’ve taken over the role of mothering me. To
this day I’m still overwhelmed with emotions when I think about how
I’ve spent most of my adult life with having only one person who
really cared about me to having all these people love me
unconditionally. My own mother and biological sister didn’t even
care when I got shot on the job a couple years ago.

“Ally stop procrastinating and make the
call,” Gabe urged, standing in front of me in all his naked glory
before stalking into the bathroom.

If he didn’t have such a cute butt I’d try
kicking his ass into tomorrow.

Ah the call. That would be a call to Tess.
When she found out about Gabriel’s stalker, which unfortunately
happened to be while she was watching the news she went ballistic.
She quickly put two and two together about my visit to L.A.
According to Connor the only thing that settled her down was her
favorite cherry cheesecake while he delicately spilled everything
to her. Her frantic calls went from epic meltdowns and crying fits
at the thought that someone was stalking Gabe and wanted to hurt me
to being pissed off that no one had the balls to tell her the truth
and me lying to her about my visit to L.A., which led to her
yelling at me over the phone and demanding I get my butt on a plane
and back to New York in one piece. Through all of her calls neither
Gabe nor I confessed that we also had an intimate relationship,
even though she subtly tried prying it out of us over the past
week. Both of us decided that it was all new to us and wanted some
extra time alone to see where we were heading. Our dilemma now was
that Gabe wanted me to attend an awards dinner with him in two
days, which would be our first public appearance together. The
guilt of lying to Tess was getting to us because we loved her so
much and then there was the fact that she was pregnant which meant
she blew everything out of proportion and considering how calmly
she reacted to the initial reason as to my visit to L.A. we didn’t
even want to think how she’s react if she found out we were
romantically involved from the tabloids. Considering Gabe couldn’t
keep his hands off me whenever we were within arms reach of each
other and him being adamant about not wanting to hide how much I
meant to him from the public, we decided, despite my hesitation, to
come clean about our intimate relationship to our family and
friends, hence the first call to Tess.

I swore if I wasn’t already half way in love
with the man I’d practice some of my ninja skills on him for
leaving me to deal with Tess by myself.

The phone rang. Was there any chance that God
would take mercy on me and let it go to voicemail and then I could
just leave a quick message for her.

“Hey Tess, it’s your sister Ally. Just
calling to check up on you and see how my little nephew is treating
you from the womb. Oh by the way sorry I lied to you but I wanted
you to hear it from me, Gabe and I are sorta in a relationship.
Love you, miss you.” Click

That would be the ideal message.

“Please don’t pick up, please don’t pick up,
please don’t pick up…..”

“Al…..?”

“Hey Tess…”

“Hey Hun, how are you?”

“Great,” I replied a little to quickly. “How
are you and how’s my little nephew treating you from the womb?”