Lust Of Paris

𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞

It has been a month since Gabriel flew back home and so far things have been good. Normal. Exciting. Everything he wished to have with him since he met him in July... except for one thing.

They hadn't seen each other since he went back home. Their relationship had just started four weeks ago and they were already struggling with finding time to even talk on the phone, let alone plan meetings that required at least two days off, three if they wanted to do anything.

At the moment, despite loving his job and everything he did there, working was the worst and both of them being entrepreneurs didn't make it any easier. God only knew when they had enough time for a visit again.

But still, things were good. Why wouldn't they be? Gabriel had a new, amazing, sexy boyfriend and no one could take him away from him!

Well, someone might because Alex was all the way in Michigan and he was here but that wasn't the point. What he meant was that at least for now, he was happy with Alex even if he wasn't physically with him.

"Mais je veux le rencontrer! Ce n'est pas juste que tu aies un nouveau petit ami et je ne sais même pas à quoi il ressemble!" (But I want to meet him! It's not fair that you have a new boyfriend and I don't even know what he looks like!) his mother muttered annoyed, rolling her eyes after he denied her wish to meet Alex.

Because he had brains he could use, Gabriel had waited a couple of weeks before telling his parents about his new relationship. And ever since that, especially his mother had talked non-stop about meeting Alex and asking every detail about him from his favorite food to what he wanted from the future.

And because she was so stubborn and impatient, she didn't listen when Gabriel told her, repeatedly, that they hadn't seen each other for a month. Why couldn't Alex just fly here, she kept asking, as if it was that simple. It's not like he had his own businesses to take care of!

And unlike before, this time not even Gabriel's father could make her stop asking the same questions over and over again so he stopped trying and just let her bother him without a care in the world. Thanks Dad, appreciate it!

Today he was having dinner with his parents, just catching up with everything even though nothing worth mentioning had happened since last week's phone call. Unfortunately. he realized too late that the invite was only to torture him with never-ending questions about Alex.

He was a good son and they had taught him the basic manners but right now, he was counting down the minutes to when it wasn't too rude to leave.

"Tu as enfin rencontré quelqu'un et je suis si heureux pour toi, ma chérie. Vous n'avez pas vraiment été heureux après la mort de Cece mais maintenant... Voir votre enfant aussi heureux est la plus grande chose qu'une maman puisse souhaiter!"

(You finally met someone and I'm so happy for you, sweetheart. You haven't really been happy after Cece's death but now... Seeing your child this happy is the greatest thing a Mom can wish for!)

As if he didn't know that. Even though he was a parent only for two years before the accident, Gabriel remembered the feeling. There hadn't been anything he wouldn't have done to the incredibly sweet and shy six years old girl who kept crying for her mother.

From their first meeting, he was wrapped around her fingers along with Leo and suddenly their lives had a completely new meaning; making Cece happy. And for a while, it had seemed that they had done something right. It made him feel just a tiny bit better that he remembered how happy the three of them had been until that day.

His daughter had died as a happy girl and that was all that kept him sane while thinking of what had happened. And as bittersweet as it was to think so, he liked to think that Cece had now reunited with her mother Josephine.