Taming the Bitch (COMPLETED) Wattys2018

Chapter XIX - Morning After

Vincent adjusts himself and pulls Gabrielle closer to him as she sobs in her sleep. He has just changed her clothes into a satin night gown that he saw in her closet.

"Ssshhh..." he says tapping her hip before gently rubbing her back in a soothing way like she's a small child.

"Hush love..." he whispers kissing her forehead, feeling sorry that she's hurting this way because of him. If only he could take her pain and anger towards him out of her fragile heart, he would.

But the only thing he knows he can do now is to hold on and be patient with her. It will certainly take time for her to ever trust him again but he is not someone who gives up easily on people he loves... certainly, his wife will not be the first to make him give up.

"Don't leave me...please...save me from them...dad..." she whispers in her sleep making him feel horrible. Gabrielle is having a nightmare...of what happened to her in the past. Of what led her to abandon herself.

"I'm here Bella... I'll always be here from now on..." he says wiping the tears that ran down her temples before he felt her pushing herself towards him and hiding her face on his chest as she wraps her arms around his waist.

"I'll never leave you... even if you push me away..." he says embracing her warm body tighter.

"He'll only hurt me...don't abandon me to him...dad..." he hears her mumble in her sleep. That made his heart ache even more. Knowing that it is him she is pertaining to now... knowing that she really cannot trust him anymore. Hearing from her own lips how much she loathes the fact that her father is marrying her to him.

"He won't hurt you Bella... he won't..."

He whispers on top of her head that he is kissing before he feels her finally relaxing until her breathing pattern becomes consistently peaceful and she falls asleep in his arms for the very first time since they married.

"I won't ever let him...or myself hurt you...that's my vow, dear wife..." he whispers closing his eyes as he imprisons her in his muscled arms. Gabrielle just embraces him tighter as they lie down on bed like a real couple on their first night. Only that, they have not more than embraced each other tonight.

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Gabrielle wakes up groaning in pain from the top of the bed before she raises her sore arms that seem to have been sore from hugging something for too long before she pulls her own hair trying to ease the pain. She closes her eyes tighter as she pulls her hair whilst hiding her face on the warm but oddly hard pillow in front of her. The same pillow where her naked legs are resting on.

The pillow she is hugging moves restlessly and she feels her stomach turns upside down again realizing that she is actually hugging a warm muscled body of a man. Groaning loudly, Gabrielle stretches her sore limbs on the same bed as the idiot she hates more than anyone in the world right now. Her husband.

The realization that unlike how she remembers how she were last night, her cold skin is now covered with nothing but the thin fabric of a red see through lingerie that reaches only her hips made her utter an incoherent curse under her nose.

"Sleep some more, baby..." Vincent whispers pulling her back to his arms.

"Y-you... f-ck...!" She pushes him with both hands making Vincent raise his head a little, his eyes trying to adjust with the little light coming from the moonlight outside their room so he could see her beautifully angered face.

"For God's sake Bella..." he whispers in his sinfully husky voice.

"Go back to sleep..." He whispers not minding her hands that are pressed hardly on his chest and thus reaching out for her left palm, pulling it to embrace his own waist before his own arm snakes around her slim waist.