Recent content by Gabriel Fletcher

Gabriel shook his head as Lexy tried to tell him he'd grown as a person. "What if I haven't, though? What if I haven't changed?" he said. He didn't understand how Lexy could look at him and see a good person, someone with a deep soul. No matter how hard he tried to deceive the world, he would...

Gabriel managed to look Lexy in the eye. Even now, he felt like he was deceiving her. Even though he was about to tell her the truth. She didn't know the man she'd just married - not really. Admittedly, Gabriel hadn't known what Lexy was capable of until recently, and he didn't think of her as a...

Gabriel moaned and rolled his head back against the headboard. Correction: he'd almost got away with it. "I was telling the truth," he insisted, though he couldn't quite meet Lexy's gaze as he said it. He sighed. "Look, his girlfriend and I have a history. We were best friends. I wasn't...

Gabriel's smile fell, and he shrank a little. Only Lexy could make him shrink like that. She was a lioness. But she was a lioness who was on his side - sort of. Something told him he hadn't heard the last of this, yet. He didn't dignify Reuben with a goodbye. It was dark outside. The...

"Some girl," Gabriel muttered. Why did they have to meet the guests? And where was Saveli? As he stood there, shaking the hands of his coworkers and some other people he didn't really care about, he glanced around the garden nervously. He hadn't seen her or Reuben since just before the vows...

Though he'd deny it later, Gabriel had a tear in his eye as Lexy walked down the aisle toward him, their small son clutching a bright bouquet of flowers in front. Gabe didn't deserve them. He'd done some terrible things to good people - things he daily wished he could take back, or at least...

Gabriel was going to say that, no, Lexy was the one who didn't understand, he wanted to marry her right now, when his train of thought was derailed by the summoning of a fork. He watched as she turned the fork into a silver ring, not sure whether to judge her for being the world's biggest dork...

Why did Lexy think she had to protect him? They were in this together. But Gabriel couldn't blame her for keeping this a secret. It wasn't something you could bring up casually over dinner, was it? She'd probably worried about how he would react. He hugged her a little tighter before she pulled...

Gabe narrowed his eyes. Lexy never cried. What was this about? She had clearly been keeping something very important from him. "Right," he agreed, a little curtly. They certainly weren't strapped for cash, thanks to Lexy's job - something he didn't exactly enjoy being reminded of. He worked his...

Nobody had told Gabriel how exhausting raising a kid was. Having the little demon around almost made him sympathise with his mother. Almost. The different was that he actually loved his kid, would have given up everything he had for him, whereas she had dumped him on his dad's doorstep like a...

"Right. Yeah. Wait, I'm making you nervous?" Gabe said. "How are you not already nervous?" All things considered, Lexy really was handling things surprisingly well. Shaking his head, he bolted through the hall and into the kitchen, switching on lights as he went. "No idea!" he yelled behind him...

Gabriel woke to what felt, initially, like an earthquake. It took him several moments to realise Lexy was shaking him, swearing her head off about something or other, and another moment to realise why. He sat bolt upright, immediately awake. "OK," he said, trying to appear calm and in control...

Gabriel was bordering on the hysterical, and hardly noticed Lexy's attempts to interrupt until she took hold of his face and silenced him with a kiss. He felt the chaos in him calm almost at once, the fear and the doubt shrinking at her touch. Nobody had been able to make him feel so much by...

She was serious. Completely serious. "S**t," Gabe murmured, rubbing his face with his hands. It was too much to process. How could this have happened? They'd be careful - careful enough, anyway. It wasn't even that he didn't love Lexy. In the short time he'd known her, he'd grown to love her in...

"I was watching that," Gabe protested as Lexy switched the television off. He watched defencelessly as the Pringles were yanked away from him, staring in awe at her absolute audacity. Then he frowned. Where was this coming from? What had suddenly made her decide to share her childhood story with...