Chapter-14-"Astonishing Parallels"

Angelica Devina's POV

I feel someone kissing my feet and their lips move to my knees then to my inner thigh. My legs are gently opened and a tongue glides through my clit. The warmth and the wetness of that tongue makes me bite my lip. A finger rubs my clit and I moan.

Ah! It feels good!

The tongue starts licking my folds gently and hungrily. A gasp leaves my lips as I feel a soft bite. My hand goes to the head and hold it down to be sucked on good. I lick my lips.

More! I want more!

My eyes slowly open and I find Gabriel sucking my clit. His steel eyes meet mine and he licks my clit like it's his job of the day. His finger rubs on it as he kisses my inner thigh.

"My Goddess." His teeth bite down on the place her kissed and I close my eyes gasping and moaning.

"Gabriel." I cannot believe I said it so sensually. He latches onto my clit sucking it harder and I move my hips to get myself more into his mouth. His hands grab my hips as he devours me. My hands are still in his hair. The climax nears and I keep bucking my hips as he sucks. "More." I murmur and he listens obeying my command. "Ah! Fuck! Yes. Yes! YES!!!"

"My Angel." He looks at me for a split second and goes back to pleasuring me with his mouth. I have never been pleasured like this and it feels so fucking good. It feels so fucking right to have him lick me! My orgasm nears and he sucks faster. "Cum for me. Let me drink you!" He slaps my clit gently and his lips are back on it. He licks my whole clit from bottom to top and gives one last suck and I cum undone.

"Ah! Gab..." My words trail off. The haze completely takes me over and my mind is fogged with the images of me grinding on him and how it would feel if he is inside me. The orgasm hits and I smile. He licks my cum hungrily and I lie there losing myself in the bliss of the aftermath.

This man! He will strip me down and lie me bare! My body, heart and soul! How frightening?!!!

He climbs over my kissing my stomach to my breasts and stops as a thin layer of my silk cloth is covering me. He kisses my neck.

"Good morning, my Little Dove." He greets and suddenly everything comes crashing down.

Last night going to the bathroom. A man, Kinsley coming in to kidnap me. Everything that he told me. That Gabriel was the man that was supposed to marry me, but now it was my fiancé. That my wedding is in less than two weeks. Lastly, Gabriel made me pull the trigger that hit the man right in between his eyes.

"Get off me!" I try to push him off me and for once I am glad that he listens to me. He doesn't move as far though. "I can't believe you did that!" My brow knit together. "You made me kill a man!" Once we came home last night I couldn't speak in the shock. Gabriel tried to talk to me, but I was out of it. He carried me up to the bed and pulled me close to him to sleep. Sleep didn't come easy.

"He fucking touched you, chica. Trust me, killing him was a favor. If I had my way with him, he would be begging for it. HE FUCKING TOUCHED YOU!!!" He looks murderous. It even scares me. Getting off the bed I shake my head at him.

"He said you were the guy that was supposed to marry me." He stays silent at my words. "You knew?"

"Remember you said asked if there is anymore truth you have to know yesterday morning?" I nod my head. In his office, I did. I also remember not wanting to know anymore for that day, but the secrets want to be unleashed so bad apparently. Gabriel gets off the bed and stands in his morning glory. In his boxers and only that. The sun falls on us through the glass illuminating him.

"So, why did it change?" He comes to me and takes my hand.

"We don't know. One day he informed us you died in an accident and that was it." His words make me gasp. So my father just thought he could kill Angelica and use Bella. Wow!!! Gabriel sees through my thoughts. "I know. It's fucked up!"

"The guy last night, you called him by his name. You know him?"

"He is your father's enforcer."

My eyes widen.

"You didn't know what you were living in, my Little Dove. I will change that."

"Change it how? By making me kill someone?!!" I take a step back. "It's fucked up, Gabriel!" Tears pool my eyes.

"It had to be done."

"Doesn't make it easy for me to digest that I killed a man."

"You didn't! I pulled the trigger. You didn't have an option to say no. Think of it that way. So I killed him." He keeps his voice gentle and I pause. This is all so frustrating. He takes a step towards me, bends down and lifts me up before sitting himself down and making me sit on his lap. "No one in our world is innocent. I am not going to say I will protect you from the truth of it."

I bite my lip. His fingers clasp my chin as he makes me look at him His thumb wipes down a tear and he kisses my cheek.

"But I will protect you from the dangers of it. I will not keep you in the dark. You have to know the kind of world you are living in so you can be strong enough for it. I. Won't. Let. Anything. Harm. You!" The promise is clear in his voice.

"Who is the man I am to marry now?"

"We don't know yet. But he is no less of a criminal. We have to find out who it is soon."

"Last night, the man said he is going to take me to my fiancé." Gabriel's jaw ticks.

"Don't say that, Angel. I am your fiancé." A dark possessive look takes over his face and I nod. He sighs. "Should have just shoot his leg and brought him here to get the truth." He speaks to himself. His forehead leans against mine. "Say it." He commands and I frown. "Say I am your fiancé." I gasp.

"Stop." I try to get up. He holds me down so tight. I look at him like he has gone crazy. "I am in your arms! In your bed!" His possessiveness gets out of line.

"Not enough for me." I sigh. He won't let go. I don't have to mean it.

"Y-You are my fiancé." His eyes meet mine.

"Good. Remember that I won't let anyone take you from me." I want to roll my eyes. Like I can escape! "Make me some cookies." It sounds like a command, but I know it's a request looking into his eyes.

Mixing the batter in the bowl for the cookies, I brush my hair off my face. Lance is working on his laptop as usual. He was passing my and I called him in to give me company. Simon let him be with me. He hasn't looked up or spoke a word since he came.

I am too lost to know if I want to Julia, but I miss her. It's been nearly two days since I last saw her. Once Gabriel and I had breakfast, he gave me a kiss and left to go to his office. I put myself in this beautiful kitchen to lose myself for a few minutes.

Talking to anyone else in this house feels like I am talking to a hulk. But Lance looks more human. Maybe it's his glasses or maybe because he just looks out of place like he doesn't belong here. Just like me!

"You want to try the cookie dough, Lance?" I ask holding up the spoon of cookie dough for him. He looks up from his laptop and pushes the glasses up the bridge of his nose.

"Yes." His voice is soft. I smile and pass it to him. He takes it before eating. His eyes light up as soon as he tastes and I grin. "It's so good."

"Thank you." He goes silent. "So, how did you come to work for Gabriel?" I have to speak to someone other than my captor and savior or I might go crazy.

"He-He saved me. Gave me education and I have been working for him since I graduated college last year." I nod. He looks about my age.

"Saved you from what?" I take a spoonful of dough before eating. He puts the spoon in the dough bowl taking some more as I push the bowl to him urging him to take some.

"From child trafficking and sexual assaults." I stop in my tracks and look at him as he speaks of it like Gabriel stopped him from eating mud.

"What?" It was more of a whisper.

"Got me off the black market. He saved a whole lot of us. Sent most of them home and those who have nowhere to go, he pays off their education. Some of them work for us. They are loyal as fuck." He explains.

I stare at him in shock. Lance sees it and smiles shyly. Gabriel does that?

"There is a lot more than torturing people that we do here." He explains and I gape.

"W-what do you work on?"

"I mostly stay on the dark web. Work out any new happenings of trafficking, any new drug deals that go way off and more. That's how we found you the night he brought you here."

"WHAT?!!!" Excuse me? The fear evident on his face. He spoke too much.

"Yes, Gabriel is obsessed with you. But the night he brought you here, we discovered the man you watched die in the washroom that day had his sights on you. He has put your picture up in the black market. Gabriel got us to delete it."

What. The. Actual. Fuck?!!! How is it that things keep repeating?!!!

"There is more to Gabriel than any rumors you might have heard of. I suggest you ask him before trusting in them. He only ever gives you the truth even if it hurts. I can promise you that." He takes another spoonful of the dough. "Truth and Loyalty are the only things I saw him give value. Then you. He never valued or even looked at anyone like he looks at you."

Yes. That man does stares a lot like he wants to devour me!

"That rumor you might have heard of him killing his father." I choke on the dough in my mouth.

He killed his father?

"There is more to it. That man had to die." Lance speaks with such anger for Gabriel's father.

Gabriel. I can't figure out if he is and Angel or the Devil! No matter who he is, I know there is no way out! I do not want out! I want him!!!

Lance starting typing on his laptop and I tried to keep the talk light. I put the cookies in the oven and as we chat all I can think about is Gabriel. Once they are done I pull out and give one to Lance. He happily takes it. Putting them in a plate, I walk towards Gabriel's office. He is such a contrast person.

The man that kills.

The man that saves.

The man that possesses me.

Yet, the man that gave me the most freedom.

As I think of him, I come to a decision. Maybe I knew it all long, but I just realized it.

I make a note of one thing.

Talk. To. Julia. About. It. NOW!!!"

A/N:

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I hope you guys like this chapter. All of us have these parallels in us. The world always surprises us with who we are as we open ourselves to more experiences. So, take a chance, do that thing even if you make a mistake. Let life in.

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