Chapter 5

• "Spare Ade from all these..." Gabrielle storms in to her father's huge office in New York after hearing from Adrian that no hospital is willing to admit his mother anymore.
• His mom, who has also been almost like a mother to her is suffering from stage 4 lung cancer. Adrian's family's wealth has all gone now because of his father's gambling and his mother's illness. He get into modelling to sustain their need, he has two younger siblings that are still attending college in London.
• Ade has always been her best friend.
• Her real best friend..
• Their relationship has taken to a higher level not because they romantically love each other. It is far more than that. It is a give and take relationship... One would think that it's only Gabrielle giving in the relationship, but it isn't like that. For her, it's the other way around.
• Ade is giving her the family she never had. She practically grew up around his family... She considered them her own family. His mother has always been her mother. The old woman cared for her especially after her own mother passed away just days after she was kidnapped when they were in junior high.
• Is she in love with him?
• She would say yes. But it isn't the love that you'd have for a person to the point that you'd actually marry him. Her love for Ade is different, so does his love for her. All her life, Gabrielle has only been in love once...
• It was with Ryan...
• "Stop being a fool Gabrielle. How many times should you make yourself a fool when it comes to users like him?" She heard her father say before clicking his tongue. Gabrielle narrowed her eyes at that.
• "Adrian is not what you think he is!"
• She snapped for which her father raises his eyebrows at before leaning on the back of his swivel chair with his fists clasped to each other like he is praying.
• "You said exactly the same about that swine... Where did it lead you to, Gabby? He ruined you in public because of your recklessness. Because of your stupid emotions."
• He is talking about Ryan.
• Gabrielle looks away because if that. The spang of hatred and anger are still there. She hated her father for manipulating her relationships. She hated Ryan for using her... and she hated herself more for believing him and for allowing her father to prove that she's wrong about that swine.
• "I've saved you from that swine and now you're getting yourself involved with another one! He's milking you of money and power! In a month or so, he will do the same to me too!"
• "Hah! With what now father?! I've saved you from spending money too! Now you don't need to pay Ryan for him not to publish our photos or rather, our videos to the world. Everybody knows what a slut your daughter has turned to be. No need to sugar-coat my image anymore!" she answered back.
• Her voice is shaky because of anger and hatred. Just remembering everything that Ryan did to her makes her sick. He made her believe in so many lies. She was young and vulnerable. She was so trusting... so stupid to believe her. But now, she knows better.
• "Do you ever think of your mom, Gabby..?" Her father suddenly asks which made her blink a couple of times.
• In his face lies pain and longing.
• They never talked about her after her death. She blamed him, and he as well blamed himself for her passing.
• "Don't get mom involved in this..." She said with tears starting to form in her eyes.
• "All she ever wanted was for you to grow up well... I guess we both failed on that.."
• "Don't involve her into this!" She screamed as tears fall.
• "How could you speak about her?! You've killed her abandoning me! You have no right to remind me on what mom would have liked me to be when you have abandoned me in the hands of those kidnappers!!" She screamed which made her father rise in his chair and walk near her.
• "All these years.." Her father started as he comes near her, his eyes darting into hers with so much pain.
• "All these years, all you ever did was ruin my life!" She said bitterly as she tried to block him from getting near her.
• "Have I told you, you look so much like her? So much that it pains me even more to look at you... seeing her in your eyes?"
• "Stop the act..! You never loved her! You never loved any of us! You only loved your money, your power! If you die I'll put all your money in your grave so that at least you'll have something with you in hell!" She said heartlessly not knowing how much it pains her father.
• They've been in arguments like this before, many time he would just throw back words to her when she talks like this. She is sarcastic and so is he. But now, as she looks into his eyes, all she could see is pain... And disappointment... and longing.
• "I really wish you never had to be my daughter.." Said he as he looks at her innocent eyes.
• Words that hurts her more... words that she never truly understands the reason behind. At least until that night when her mom died, she thought that her father loved her. But she was wrong. He abandoned her and caused her mother's life doing so...
• "Just disown me and let me live my fucking life!! I don't need you to be my father and I resent being your daughter! Same same, huh?! So, stop doing this!" She said with so much hatred towards him.
• "Go back home Gabby." He said softly making her jaws drop.
• What the hell is wrong with this man? Has he finally gone bonkers? One minute he's telling her how much he regrets having her as his daughter, the next minute he's pleading for her to go home.
• "Go home and what?! Rot in hell with you??"
• "Go home and Adrian's mother lives... Go home and face your life."
• "You're so cruel.." She says shaking in anger.
• So, this is his way of torturing her? Another person's life at stake Just to geta hold of her?!
• "You can kill anyone just to get what you want... you're the scariest person I've ever met..."
• "I'll kill anyone to have you back. I'll kill anyone to fix you..." He said in his mind before he flinches and turns around.