Page 123 of Plunge into Obsession

I nearly tripped on my way up to him.

Beside me, Kaia gasped, and she made a move as if to catch me.

But Gabriel was quick. He caught me around the waist.

Somewhere in the crowd, I thought I heard someone snicker, but I didn’t fucking care.

“Mi cariño,” Gabriel whispered, his breath fanning over my face. I snuggled closer to him. “Me quitas el aliento.”

I stepped back. “I don’t know what that means.”

My voice was just as soft as his.

He cupped my cheek, and the expression he showed me only when we were alone was back on his face.

But we weren’t alone.

“You take my breath away, darling.”

I smiled shyly. “It’s the dress. And the tiara. It makes me feel like a princess.”

“No,mi cariño, it’s the woman. And you are a princess.Mi princesa.”

I didn’t need help to translate that.

We turned to the priest, and he offered me a small smile, but none for Gabriel. Perhaps it was because Gabriel was breaking tradition by not getting married in a church.

I turned and handed Kaia my bouquet.

She shot me a small smile, and I squeezed her hand when she took the flowers from me. Then I turned back to Gabriel.

I still wasn’t sure how I felt about this marriage, but gazing into Gabriel’s eyes, I knew he could have made me fall in love with him first.

He could have gotten me to marry him willingly, without threatening Kaia, without making me feel so confused about this entire thing, had he just given me a little more time.

It almost made me feel… heartbroken that he didn’t.

I blinked when I realized the priest was waiting for me.

I took a deep breath, but even then, my voice came out shaky as I said, “I… I do.”

Kaia handed me Gabriel’s ring, and I grabbed his very large hand. How easily he could hurt me. Hurt Kaia.

I should hate him.

I placed the ring on his finger, my heart thudding so loudly in my chest, I briefly wondered if he could hear it.

Gabriel’s voice didn’t waver when he said his line. No, it was deep and strong. “I do.”

He never looked away from my face.

Raphael, standing beside him, handed Gabriel a ring, and Gabriel wasted no time grabbing my hand and holding it between our bodies.

There was something about his eyes that I didn’t understand, and what was more, I didn’t want to understand it.

A shudder moved through me, and I didn’t know if it was because of fear or something else.

Perhaps both.

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