Taming the Bitch (COMPLETED) Wattys2018

Chapter XVIII - LET ME IN

"She's missing...!" That was the very first thing he'd spoken as he reaches Gabrielle's father's office.

"What on Earth do you mean she is missing?!" She disappeared right after the reception, I couldn't find her anywhere Gabriel!"

Gabriel's jaws click as he stands up from his swivel chair and looks out the window.

"She isn't missing... you just couldn't find her." he looks out the window and flinches remembering the times when that one particular place he knows where she is right now was still the place where they used to play in. It was Gabrielle's little castle. Her favourite spot in the whole of the chateaux. The place where she grow up just making her parent fall in love with her everyday. That was her place, their place as a family...

His late wife and his only daughter loved that place with all their hearts contentment and so did he...

But that is also the same place that Gabrielle, together with all the other things she used to love doing with her mother, abandoned after her mom died.

It has been a decade now since Gabby took a step inside that place. She never visited there again, not even talked about or asked how her mother's flowering plants are now. When his wife died, he'd also lost the graceful and cheerful daughter he had with her.

Gabrielle changed dramatically after that day in the hospital when she learned of her mother's passing after she was kidnapped.

There was just one time... just one time when he thought she'd went there after all these years...

That was when she lost her license as a doctor... the same time when he ended her relationship with the arse who used her vulnerability to his advantage. That was one of the times when he knew that he's completely lost the chance to have his daughter under his home... until Vincent came and he'd found another reason or more like a card to tame her again and keep her on the right track.

"Are you not even bothered where your daughter could be?! Because I am! Knowing that if anything happens to her, I could only blame myself for playing a huge part on trapping her into this marriage!"

"A trap you say...? Now you disappoint me Vincent. Are you confirming to me now that you agreed to all my conditions because of my money and power?"

"You know very well that I can survive without your money Davis!"

"You can, sure. But how about the rest of the people working under you? Your company and the families of hundreds of your people? Do you regret now signing up for this?" He taunts smirking as he turns to look at his now son-in-law.

"You know what I regret?! I regret meeting you first before your daughter! I regret having to make a deal with you first before even making her feel how special she is. You have done nothing but ruin what could have been a beautiful thing about your own daughter... You ruined Gabrielle, Davis! You've ruined her before I got the chance to hold her! That's what I regret the most!" With that he storms out of the library only to stop as Gabriel speaks once again.

"The secret garden..." he said simply as he take his seat exactly at the same time Vincent turns around to look at him again.

Gabriel is now clasping his hands together as he looks up at his son-in-law's worried expression before he smirks.

"The huge wall behind the altar where you exchanged vows... that's the only place I could think of where your wife could be right now." He says before waving his hands like he was a servant he dismisses.

Vincent did not waste another second and storms off the room: it is already half past 12 in the midnight. He's been searching the castle since a couple of hours ago now. Asking all the maids if they have seen her since she left his side without another word after dreadfully entertaining the guests of their wedding. He'd originally thought she just went back to her suite so he gave her time to be alone. But he'd checked on her an hour earlier and she wasn't there. He began his thorough search and returns alone not finding even her shadow until he decides to inform her father about her. Hoping that he could at least give him a clue on where to possibly find his daughter.