Chapter-17-"Man Beneath the Demon"

Gabriel Hernandez's POV

"Make sure everything is right. We need to get him tonight." Kylan and Ryan nod their heads at my orders. Tonight is New Year's party. The whole house is getting decorated. It's all hustle and bustle out there. "No one is allowed up to the second floor."

"No worries, Capo. Most of the party would be out in the garden anyway. Only the important ones get to come in." Ryan informs.

"I need that fucker in the dungeons by twelve tonight." David, Angela's father, cannot escape today. I need answers! My Little Dove needs them!!! He owes her that!!! "I am only going to bring her out for a few minutes." Don't need more eyes on her than necessary. Just enough to lure in her fiancé and her father.

The past two days have been amazing. The food she cooked, the annoyed smiles she gives me and the mornings, everything is so great. I would give her the world if she needs. But she never asks for anything. The one thing she asked is to learn how to shoot. I am not going to lie, but it made me so happy. The dark part in me wanted to watch her shoot the heads of the people that used her.

Ah! That would be a sight to watch! Her... Killing! Fuck! It's turning me on!

I got to wake her up as I eat her sweet fucking pussy. I could kill for her moans! This has become the norm. Just waking her up with oral sex. It's so hard to control myself around her. The amount of times I wanted to slide in her. The need to cum in her. Fuck! She makes up for my blue balls with the great food though. Having her rub against my cock as she feeds me was the best thing.

Like she did yesterday. She cooked lasagna and I can't help but have her sit on me as she feeds me. Something changed in her behavior. She is finally accepting the truth as hard as it must have been for her. Knowing that family only wanted to trade her for their profit and that they are only grooming her for that... I would kill if someone did that to me.

I know she is learning shooting with her friend in the evening. It's a beginning of a new era for her. Ryan placed a security for her just in case and she is not happy about it, but she didn't complain.

She is trying to hold on to the part of herself with her cooking and trying to build herself as she learn shooting. I know she is trying to dress differently and make choices differently. She is making them for herself without hesitation and to see her shining is the best thing in the world.

I am going to protect her no matter what!!! She is FUCKING BORN TO BE MINE!!! MY WOMAN!!!

The door opens and... Speak of the Angel!

She is holding a batch of some dessert. Ryan goes to collect it from her. Their faces light up when they see her. How can anyone not like her? She has been talking to them since yesterday instead of avoiding them like she used to. By the time Simon and I came home last night, she and her friend are at the dining table laughing with Kylan and Ryan. I never hated those two more. They got to make her laugh.

She smiles at me as she walks up to me. Damn! God! Save my soul! She is the light of my fucking life! She is wearing a maroon lace top with a black jeans and she looks ethereal. Coming straight to me, she plops down on my lap like she owns me and I adjust her to make her sit comfortable like I always do. A smile makes it's way to my lips. My heart skips a beat.

She holds out a cookie at my mouth. I try it immediately. She waits as I chew. I moan.

"Fuck!!!" My reaction confuses her and she bites her plump bottom lip. "That is so fucking good."

"I made it with rum and-"

I have to kiss her. This beautiful, Sweet, Lovely and Angelic woman! She is stealing my heart with her Light, Smile and tasty fucking cookies!

Her hands come around my neck as she opens her mouth to let me in and I just devour her. I need her closer. Closer than this! If it even makes sense! She tastes of the same. Like Rum cookies. Passion fills us in. My hand goes under her top and she moans as I pinch her waist.

"We are leaving." Kylan says. I don't even look up. The door opens and shuts and the animal in me takes over. Moving her, I make her straddle me while still kissing her. She is So FUCKING INTOXICATING!!! Ripping her top open in the front, her maroon bra comes into view. It's such a contrast against her pale skin. My hands knead her breasts from under the bra as my mouth moves to kiss her neck.

"Gabriel!" She throws her head back as I buck my hips into her core. Her nipples poke sweetly into my palm. Moving her bra up my lips latch on to that dark pink nipple. Her skin is so soft and smooth. "Ah! Yes!"

"My Angel!" My voice comes out low and deep. Her eyes meet mine and she moves her more into my palm asking my hands on her breasts. I squeeze them tight and she moans loudly.

"I love it." Her eyes are still closed as she speaks and my fingers tease her nipple. She is sitting on top of me in her beautiful glory. I rip away her lace bra too. My Goddess!!! "I love doing whatever I want, whenever I want." She says it like it's a confession.

"As you should, my Little Dove."

"Gabriel." She calls and my eyes meet her immediately giving her the attention. She stops moving on my cock. "I want to stay." Her hands hold my face and I seriously want to melt into them. They are so fucking soft! When was the last time I was held like this?! "You remember this is the last day. The week is up." She reminds. I smirk. Like I would let her go!

"You don't have much of a choice in that. Anything else, you know you do. I will give you the fucking world." My fingers grip her chin. She shakes her head like she wants to roll her eyes at me.

"I know! You made it pretty clear about my choices. But you said I could make the choice to stay with you willingly." I nod thinking of how terrified she looked in the car that day. My had still kneads her breast wanting to know if she is still here telling me all the things that I want to hear. "It's not because I have nowhere to run." She sighs. "Not like you would let me go far." She murmurs. I give a side smile.

"You know me so well." Her choice makes me extremely happy though. It would mean she would stay here happily. I want to see her excited, curious and bubbly self like she was in the club the night I saw her.

"I actually don't." She tries to cover her chest bringing the torn pieces of fabric together. Moving, she lays her head on my chest and my hand goes to smooth her hair. "When is your first kill?" She asks suddenly. I have nothing to hide from her. I will only give her the truth.

"When I was ten." She gasps at my reply. Was training by that time and my father gave me an assignment. He accompanied me just to see how I would carry it out. "It was a clear shot." I had to kill him at his house. Her beautiful blue eyes look at me with pain.

"It must have been so hard for you as a boy." Her empathy twists the little good that's in my heart. I was trained not to feel guilty for it. He is not the first good man I killed. I had to kill more till I killed my father. I do enjoy killing, but not the innocents. The wrong and vulgar on the other hand? Ah! It's a different story!

"It..." Was! My mother died by that time. "My father had control over me. I had no place to..." Run to! Just like I am doing with her! I didn't give her the option! I just couldn't bring myself to! She is in danger now and I need her in our room with loads of security around her! Her soft lips kiss my cheek.

"Jules told me how you mother tried to run away and that your father got to her." I see how she didn't use the word kill. I give her a kurt nod. Her blues meet my steel greys. "I choose you and I would run away with you."

Her words twist the deepest wounds that buried deep in my heart. It's like she is putting a balm on them and it's working.

"Why did you kill your father?" This question does nothing to me. It doesn't hurt, it doesn't made me sad... Nothing.

"We got to know he wanted to start human trafficking." Another gasp from her. I just stare at her trying to keep myself calm. The images of the night plague my mind. "Simon got to know about it. We spoke to him about it and tried to stop him. His crimes are getting out of hand by that time, threatening our position here in New York and worldwide exposing the mafia."

She listens intently.

"This was the last straw. Simon helped me." My hand rubs her back smoothly. "It had to be done. Irony is he saved Simon from human trafficking when he was nine and trained him." The shock on her face nearly makes me chuckle. "Simon and I trained beside. We never used to get along as kids."

"What?!!" She almost shrieks. I do chuckle.

"Yes. Now he is my brother." He is no less!

"Kylan and Ryan?" She asks curiously. I have to kiss her lips to fuel myself.

"They were sourced out later. Kylan was brought in one day with blood all over him. He took his revenge on one of my men. I was supposed to kill him, but, the man he killed, he took revenge on deserved it. He sold drugs to his sister who over dosed and killed herself. We never sell drugs to underage kids. That man went against my orders and got what he deserved. Since then Kylan worked for me."

She nods understanding.

"Ryan was sourced out by my Simon. He brought him in after a security operation went wrong and he lost his job. Ryan is good at what he does and the company he worked for wanted to remove him because he was too sincere and he knows of the information he shouldn't." My hand now moves to her leg and I bring her closer to my chest. "All of them are loyal to me."

"They seem so." She whispers to herself. "Lance is sweetest of them all though." Something primal in me wanted to rip Lance's throat and place it in her hands. Her smile fades as she meets my eyes. I nearly punched Lance for eating the first cookie she cooked.

"You are mine, my Sweet wife and you better remember that." I know she is too good for me, but she is mine.

"I am not your wife, Gabriel!" She tries to get up, but I hold her in place.

"You were promised to me, my Little Dove." She rolls her eyes at me.

"Now I am promised to some other guy is he my husb-"

"Finish that sentence. I dare you!!!" Her eyes go wide at my tone.

"Urgh! Maybe I should run away!" I know she doesn't mean it.

"I would love to chase then."

"You are unbearable!"

"You are beautiful!"

She tries not to blush through her irritation. SHE IS SO CUTE!!! Trying to cover herself with that ripped fabric and throwing daggers at me with her blue eyes. How did I get so lucky?!

"You have to follow the protocol tonight, my Angel. Ryan will explain everything to you and I need you safe. I won't let anything happen to you." My hand goes to her cheek and she nods understanding. "Your father will be coming tonight and we will get all the answers we need."

She lays back on my chest letting me wrap my hand around her. She is getting comfortable with me every day. I LOVE IT!!!

SHE CHOSE ME!!! AGAIN!!! WHAT A BEST FUCKING WAY TO END A YEAR?!!!

I just hope we get David Devina in my dungeons so I can do all that I planned for him.

How lovely is it? My Angel in my arms. My enemies at my feet!

A BEST FUCKING WAY TO START A NEW YEAR!!!

Everything should go as planned!!!

A/N:

Hey my cute dumplings!!!

Angelica choosing Gabriel is so important. She is choosing him no matter what she finds out about her father. She is choosing him despite of his sins. Hoe beautiful is that?!!!

What do you think of Gabriel though?! He just loves supporting her dreams and seeing her shine. I wish you all find someone like that.

I neeeed to know what you think.

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