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Gabriel’s eyes glinted coldly, anger distorting his handso bastard,” he spat

“Sweetheart,” Juliacontact with his hip

“I hate hirave was, I’d piss on it”

Julia pressed her palm into his hip

“I’m sorry”

When he didn’t respond, she stroked his skin softly, an act that was h that he seduced her and abandoned us But the assle hit her”

“Gabriel,” she whispered “It was only a drea off into space

“I don’t think so”

Julia stilled “You think it was real?”

Gabriel covered his eyes, pressing his fingers into the sockets “I don’t think that was the first tiht Or the first ti Five or six I don’t know”

“You were a brave boy, defending your mother”

Gabriel dropped his hands into his lap

“It didn’t do any good He broke her Can you i after a man who hit you? In front of your son?”

“She must have loved him”

“Don’t make excuses,” he snapped

“Gabriel, look at entle

He turned in her direction, his eyes blazing fire

“I stayed with Simon,” she remarked quietly

Gabriel blinked, and slowly the fire in his eyes began to diminish

“I didn’t know your mother But I kno messed up my head hen I ith Siine your mother was very old when she had you How old was she?”

“I don’t know,” he ground out

“She thought she loved hieted with the sheet that covered her “We can’t change our pasts All we can change is the future”

“I’ainst her hair

“You didn’t”

He pulled back so he could see her face “Oh, really?”