Chapter 17
Gabriel checked his watch again. He didn’t want to hurry Lori up but they had a long way to go and he already made a reservation to a restaurant in the city, it was far away enough for them to at least hurry.
Grace had asked his permission to offer her Suzie’s dress for the dinner and he had no problems with it. Suzie had bought a lot of dresses, many which she intended to wear after the baby was born. She had a generous allowance from Gabriel and she loved lavishing it on fine thing.
It was quite sad that she didn’t get to wear any of the things she bought.
After her death, the staff had packed up all her stuff and put it in the garage, her room had been locked after that, with Gabriel not even daring to open the door to the room. The night she had died had been very hard on all of them, it seemed as if the ghost of Suzie haunted them all, and hang around the room heavily.
Gabriel was sure nobody slept a wink that night…⠀⠀
The next morning he had ordered that her stuff be put away, he couldn’t take it anymore. He supposed now he would have to rummage through them to find something, at least one thing about her family.
It could be a futile endeavor but he would do it anyway, if it meant Emilia would be fine.
He heard the clicks of heels and looked up the stairs and saw Lori coming down in a simple black dress. Her hair was tied back, with only a few strands framing her face, her dress was a simple black gown with spaghetti straps and a fitted bodice, it flared slightly at the waist and it was short enough to give Gabriel a very good view of her creamy long curvy legs.
Her feet were clad in black heels, the heel on them only looking four inches high. She didn’t even have a lot of makeup on, just what seemed to be lipgloss, eyeliner and mascota.
She was beaming as she came down the stairs and Gabriel wondered if the lovely gown she was wearing was part of the clothes Grace had convinced her to
“You look lovely.”
Gabriel complimented as he tried to tear his eyes off her but failed woefully, has wolf was howling inside and he fought hard to restrain it.
“I’m sorry. I couldn’t bring myself to wear any of Ms Suzie’s clothes. Grace said you were fine with it…
“But I couldn’t”
Lori confessed as she finally stood in front of him.
Gabriel shrugged.
“It’s was merely a suggestion. It’s not a big deal”
“Besides, what you’re wearing is fine anyway! I love it.”
“Really?”
Lori asked as her eyes widened and Gabriel nodded.
“Yes. It suits you very well.”
“We can’t waste an “We can’t waste any more minute. Are you ready?”
Lori nodded as she turned to wave at Grace who was at the head of the stair.
Grace waved back enthusiastically
“Have fun you youngsters.”
She said as Gabriel gave her a look.
Outside the house, Tony brought the Lexus RX 350. Lori had never seen it before, not seen him drive it, there were about more than five cars in the house and she had only ever seen him use two.
ked to her side
lack dress was short and she didn
Keep it professional. The told herself again.
ashed fanoush as she entered the car, ber har
car it because the felt it would make her look trashy. But when she had suggested it to
all. Gabriel was her boss, nothing more, nothing less, the
ne, she kept telling herself as he entered the car and the scent of
Something
he looked at her made her feel hot all ever she couldn’t explain it
captioned herself as she sat upright, clamping her legs tight. She shouldn’t be feeling this way about her boss. It was
sprofessional and quite honestly distasteful.
Why would he be attracted to someone
He could t
woman he wasted. Any
nan but her. Lori was sure that if he knew half of her past he would not want anything to do with her.
drive was long and a bit awkward with the growing tension between them. Len was mute, not knowing what to say, mercifully Gabriel had left the radio
the sound of music fed the entire car with Gabriel silently humming to Paul Simon.
Finally, they reached the city and were in their destination in
The restaurant was Italian, hurt like Gabriel had mentioned and he had made a
Gabriel opened the door for her again, holding her hand genth, the slight touch almost sent sparks flying in Lori’s hand.
He took her hand in his and they walked into the restaurant together after a brief talk with the valet.
The Lights in the restaurant were dim, so dim that Lori wondered how anyone could properly see, mercifully, the place wasn’t too packed and while ma
stared at them, they went back to what they were doing a few moments ago.
It was great, she had been feeling sa insecure about the dress she was wearing, she was glad that nobody else made it worse.
They were led to their table, a secluded table in the back where they could admire the stone exterior, arches, 17–foot–tall ceilings and lush marble from better point of view
They were given glasses of Prosecco while the waiter brought their menu to them. Lori was hungry, she couldn’t wait and everything on the menu seemed mouthwateringly good. But it was also mostly in Italian, so she could only make out a few words.
“What will you order?”
“I don’t know. There’s so many options!”
She said as the glanced through the menu and flipped it rather quickly, too quickly because Gabriel was chuckling.
“Would you like me to give you suppestions?”
He asked and she nodded.
“Yes please. I’ve never eaten bere before.”
Chapter 17
the confessed and he nodded.
“I know. That’s why I bought you here, you’d love their food”
for the appetizer, I’d suggest the Arancini, I won’t tell you what that is
hat that is but I’ll
assure you you’d love 1:
you’d love
as he winked at her.
“Pasta of course for your main course and the straffoli for dessert.”
Loti nodded, she would trust Gabriel with the decisions.
“That all sounds delicious. I’d love to to try.”
Gabel nodded as he told the water their order, he also ordered the same thing and the connoisseur came to talk to him about wines. He convinced Gabriel to try their new batch of Barolo wine from Piedmont. Gabriel agreed, Lori burely touched her glass of wine, remembering she was breastfeeding. She had almost forgot
Then again, she wasn’t very big on drinking.
They talked about Ensilia. Talking about her sermed to come so freely to the two of them, maybe because she was the one thing they had in common and the inly consensation. They could have without things getting awkward.
They wear so engrossed talking about her that they didn’t realize when the waiters came with their food, almost similar.
Lon could smell the food and the closed her eyes and savored the smell?
Oh good! She was so hungry. She thought as she started to dig in
When she took her first bite she couldn’t help but moan, Gabriel’s eyes widened.
“I’m sorry. I’m so sorry”
She said with her palm covering her mouth.
Gabriel shouted.
“Don’t be. You have no reason to be”
“I know………. it’s just not proper.”
She anted and Gabel shrugged.
“I don’t care much for rules like that “Su
He answered and she raised her eyebrow…
“Really?”
He nodded
“You love the
love the food, that’s a
at’s a good reaction.”
es, it’s your free time. Y
You should be relaxed.”
*Besides, It’s
He answered and Lon nodded. Well he was right.
“You’re not drinking?”
He noted as she signaled the waiter for a glass of water
Lori shook her head.
“The baby. Bran’t”
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