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GABRIEL

That evening e got home from school, I made my excuses and went to take care ofout with us?” Anna stepped in my way to block me

“You two have Tai Chi in half an hour; take Gianna to the training roo for the stairs

She ht about now since I haven’t said tords to her since picking her up from her class and all the way on the ride home I know the twins picked up oneven lares now

Whatever! I don’t see what the big deal is; it’s not like she talks any damn way I sto it to keep out unwanted guests—na their way By the time I reached the walk-in closet, I realized I was pissed at her

The anger see out of nowhere, no that’s not exactly true; I knohere it came fro about her She’s interrupting s thatof responsibility, and I certainly don’t need the distraction nohen I’oals

If I didn’t know better, I’d think she was a plant Someone the enemy put in my path to send me off course, but since I know that not to be true, I can only question why the heavens have decided to mess with me What can be the point? Myback

Even now, as I think this, after years of exe that h my head It’s been like that all day and was still there after I changed clothes and walked back into the bedroom to look up the number for the breeder who’s the only one ain when I placed a duplicate order to the dealer in London where I gota few thousand dollars extra to escalate the order only made me want to pull my hair out

I knohat’s going on here; of course, I do I didn’t reach genius status by being an ass But I refuse to be that fucking hu other I’ve trained h they have no idea that that’s the reason behind all the things I’ve been teaching the

I know one, so I have no worries there either These are the things I’ve trained myself to accept, the life I planned for oes as planned So how dare she?

I flipped on the security screen in the training roo on as my sisters did their routine Just as I expected, they were talking her into joining them So skittish, what the hell am I supposed to do with that? She acts like she’s afraid of her own damn shadow

Watching her only fueled er, so I switched the screen off, only to pace the roo torn in two, andof weakness she brought to me I don’t want to care, don’t want to worry about her or if she’s okay The twins are younger, and if someone like Victoria stepped into their lives, they’d have dropped her on her ass long ago

I have no patience for this Lance is the only one outside of the faer worry about hiht and I helped him vanquish his bullies He was there before I learned the truth, before I put uard up, and refused to let anyone else in Plus, I know Pop will take care of him

There was a knock at the door, and I opened it to find Lance standing there as if he'd sohts “What’s up?” I asked as he brushed byroom