Betrayed

Gabriel is a bit of a dick...

Maria continued to do the bare minimum and though I complained to Matteo a few times about her, there was little he was able to do about her behavior. He threatened to fire her several times but Maria and I both knew he wouldn't do anything to go against Gabriel. This was a matter for Gabriel to solve and since he and Maria were sleeping together, she felt her job was secure.

"When is Gabriel coming back?" I asked Matteo one day as he came to collect my weekly budget sheets.

"Sometimes next week I think," he shrugged.

"I'm probably going to have to meet with him for budget stuff again" I groaned.

"You're over aren't you?" he asked with a hint of amusement.

"Oh yes...." I said.

"How do you manage that?"

"What do you mean, how do I manage that? Food is expensive! You guys have 20 more men than last year and I was given the same budget. It's not rocket science Matt" I ranted, exasperated by the constant scrutiny of my spending. Did they think food grew on trees or something? Okay, wrong analogy, but it was apparent that neither of them did groceries regularly.

"Okay, okay, take it up with the boss," Matteo said, holding his hands up in defense, "I'm just the paper collector." Remi showed up then and talked to Matteo about some of the tasks he had completed that morning while I debated whether or not to wait for Maria to show up to go on a well deserved break. I decided to trust her word as she had promised to clean up after lunch earlier in the morning. I grabbed my things from the cabin and Remi and I walked down to the river hand in hand.

"Do you have any plans this weekend?" Remi enquired.

"No, I was just planning on staying here and reading like I do every weekend," I replied.

"You should come to town, I'd like to bring you out on a date or something," he said sweetly. "You can stay at my place if you want," he added.

"That could be fun, I'd like that," I said. Returning to civilization had a certain appeal especially if I was spending it with someone rather than in a hotel room. I removed my work clothes and stood before Remi in a lacy black thong and matching bra making him groan involuntarily. He swiftly removed his clothes and held me against him a moment, before picking me up in his arms, and carrying me into the river where we kissed and groped each other. We had a contest to see who could swim the furthest upstream and then floated down a few times before our time was up. 

Remi was the first one to the towels and snatched mine up before I could. He held it out of my reach until I reached up to kiss him. We got caught up in another make out session before he handed me my towel. I looked up at him with a smile and he met my gaze with an adoring look. Something behind his shoulder caught my eye and I quickly wrapped the towel around me tightly. Seeing the look of concern on my face, Remi turned to see a fuming Gabriel approaching us from the trail.

"What the fuck are you two doing?" Gabriel asked loudly, his eyes narrowed, and his fists clenched at his side. "Get you ass back to work Ace, or I swear to fucking god you can look for another place to finish your hours" he yelled out at Remi, the veins at his temple bulging and threatening to burst. The giant of a man nervously picked up our things and reached out for my hand.

"She stays," he commanded, his jaw clenched.

"The hell she does," Remi said in a confident growl, snatching my hand up and pulling me gently behind him. I glared at Gabriel as I followed Remi, his hand trembling slightly in mine as I tried to reassure him. "I'll see you tonight beautiful" he said thickly, then kissed my forehead and stalked off towards his cabin.