Page 138 of Plunge into Obsession

I was so caught up in the contradictory action that I didn’t pull away at first.

I jerked it out of his hold.

He didn’t say anything to that. He merely watched me with unreadable eyes, and I pretended not to notice.

After a moment, when the silence got to be too much, I climbed off the bed and made my way to the bathroom with the blanket wrapped around me.

Gabriel burned a hole through my skin with his gaze focused intently on me the entire time.

* * *

I didn’t knowwhat was happening, but Gabriel didn’t leave the house today.

I had been a little lonely all week. Gabriel would leave the place every day and most nights. But when I wanted to be alone, he wouldn’t leave.

He wasn’t with me in the room today. In fact, he had been giving me space, but just the knowledge that he was still here was enough for me to feel uneasy.

I looked down at my phone.

I had some missed calls and messages from Kaia, but I didn’t know how I could talk to her without breaking down.

I turned away from the phone, putting it face down on the carpeted floor.

I was lying on the floor in the closet.

I couldn’t bring myself to leave the safety of this room. I couldn’t leave and risk running into Gabriel.

I was bored and confused and messed up. Gabriel said we were leaving for ourhoneymoonas soon as he got things settled, but I wondered how much of a honeymoon it could possibly be with me feeling the way I did.

I didn’t even know where we were going.

Gabriel decided everything, and I normally wouldn’t have minded the surprise. But hell, it would have been nice if he brought me more into the decision now, when everything was so… uncertain.

I looked around the huge space of the walk-in closet.

It could have been turned into a small room.

I placed my hand on my belly. I still had time, but I hadn’t even thought about building a nursery for my child.

Where would the baby sleep?

How would I care for another life?

I was so ill-prepared to care for another life, it wasn’t even funny. And how could I expect Gabriel to be better prepared?

I didn’t.

Taking a deep breath, I perused the shelves built on top of the closet.

It was mostly my things—my old things that Kaia had helped me move, but there was a small unfamiliar black box.

I frowned and stood, wondering if it had always been there. It was at the very top and hidden in the corner.

It seemed like someone had recently taken it down and hadn’t pushed it all the way back in, otherwise, I didn’t think I would have noticed it today.

Gabriel’s, perhaps?

This box obviously belonged to him, and my skin hummed with the anticipation of finding another piece of the puzzle that made up my enigma of a husband.

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