ACCIDENTALLY MARRIED TO THE BILLIONAIRE SINGLE DAD (Gabrielle and Damon) novel Chapter 171

CHAPTER 171

GABRIELLE’S POV

My heart fluttered and my hands curled against my legs to stop them from shaking with part relief and part fear.

It seemed like so long ago that I heard Damon’s voice when it had barely been hours.

I needed him to hold me and promise me that everything would be okay, that we could all get out of this situation unscathed.

Rocco chuckled softly. “Straight to threats. I see you haven’t changed at all.”

“Put Gabrielle on the phone,” Damon said coldly.

Rocco ignored the request. “You’ve been very busy lately. Russia yesterday and Mexico the day before. You’re traveling a lot, even for a businessman.”

Silence came from the other end for a moment.

“I already know where you took her,” Damon said.

Rocco smiled slightly. “Of course you do. The moment I saw the necklace, I knew it had a tracker. It saves me the stress of telling you where to find me.”

So that was why he asked me to never take it off.

My heart pounded harder.

I wanted to speak, but I knew it would only give the guard behind me a reason to shove me again.

Rocco leaned back in his seat. “You also brought friends along with you. Your supposed dead brother and the Carter boy. Interesting choice.”

Damon did not answer.

Rocco continued calmly. “Since we are speaking openly now, let us stop pretending. I know your brother is alive and I know he murdered my son.”

Damon’s voice remained calm. “You started this, Bellini. You ruined my life and still wouldn’t let me walk

away.”

“That is irrelevant,” Rocco replied. “My son is dead. That is the only fact that matters.”

Rocco gestured toward me.

“What if I decide to kill your child in return?”

Damon spoke again, his voice lower this time. “You wouldn’t do that. What do you want?”

“I want Rhys,” Rocco said simply. “Alive would be preferable. But dead will do. And I want you to come

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get your wife yourself.”

The room went quiet.

My stomach twisted as I waited for Damon to answer.

“And if I say no?” Damon asked.

Rocco picked up his glass and took a slow sip before answering.

“Then your pregnant wife falls down a flight of stairs twice,” he said calmly. “Accidents happen in unfamiliar houses.”

My breath caught and I felt the man behind me shift again.

“No!” I said before I could stop myself.

The guard holding the phone moved it closer to Rocco, but Damon had already heard me.

“Gabrielle?” Damon’s voice softened instantly.

“I’m okay,” I said quickly. “Don’t listen to him. He wants to kill the both of you.”

Rocco smiled and leaned forward slightly.

“You see?” he said into the phone. “Your wife is still very talkative. I haven’t laid a single finger on her and her friend. Yet.”

“Let her go,” Damon said. “This is between you and me.”

Rocco shook his head slowly.

“No,” he replied. “This is between families now. So what do you say?”

Silence filled the room again.

Then Damon spoke. “I’ll do what you asked. But first, let me talk to her.”

Rocco considered it for a moment before nodding at the guard.

The phone was finally placed in my hand.

My fingers tightened around it immediately. “Damon.”

His voice was cold. “Are you hurt?”

I didn’t answer.

I couldn’t.

I was shaking too much to even form a word now that I was given the chance to speak to him.

He spoke again, his voice softer this time. “Talk to me, wife. Are you hurt?”

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Wife.

That word from him shattered something in my chest.

I swallowed hard, opening my mouth to tell him ‘yes‘ but when I glanced up at Rocco, he was shaking his head.

“No,” I answered.

“Did they touch either of you?”

“No.”

“Were they aggressive with you?”

Yes.

My voice broke, tears forming in my eyes as I lied. “No. I’m okay.”

I could feel every pair of eyes in the room on me.

“I’m okay,” I repeated quietly.

There was a long pause on the line–a sign that Damon knew I was lying–before he spoke again.

“Listen to me carefully,” he said.

Rocco leaned back in his chair, watching me with obvious interest.

“I’m coming for you,” Damon continued. “And when I do, nobody in that room will leave alive. So keep their faces in your memory for me.”

My heart bloomed with a sense of peace and pride in the fact that I could always count on him.

But I knew that would be a risk to his life.

He had already almost died for me once, and that was enough for me.

Tears streamed down my face.

“I’m so fucking scared,” I cried. “But I don’t want you to come. It’s not safe. They’re planning-”

The guard snatched the phone away from my hand and gestured at me to keep quiet before I could say

more.

He returned the phone back to Rocco.

Rocco’s expression had hardened. “You have twenty four hours to bring Rhys and yourself to me. Add the Carter boy too.”

“Don’t confuse my compliance for weakness,” Damon said, his voice flat. “The only leverage you have is the fact that my wife is still unharmed.”

My eyes stung.

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Damon would always have my heart.

Rocco didn’t look too pleased at his tone. “If you don’t surrender yourself unarmed and unprotected in twenty four hours, I’ll turn your wife and her friend into my whores.”

The thought of anyone other than my husband touching me made nausea rise in my throat.

“And then,” he continued. “I’ll pass them to a few friends of mine as a deal sweetener. You know not many people would pass up the opportunity to fuck an enemy’s wife.”

Fiorella was looking at me when I turned to her, horror drawn all over her face.

Rocco meant every word he was saying.

My lungs suddenly felt too tight to draw in a full breath.

“And you have a lot of enemies,” he said. “You’ll have even more once I tell everyone your little secret.”

He gestured at the guards behind us.

A gasp escaped my lips when one of them suddenly grabbed my arm.

Rocco raised a finger. “Then after they’ve had their fill with her, I’ll throw them both into a prostitution ring. But first, I’ll wait until she gives birth, then take your unborn child as your replacement.”

My breath hitched, my body completely freezing up as I stared wide–eyed at him.

“Do we have an agreement, Gravari?”

A moment of tense silence passed.

Then Damon spoke. “I will come to you in twenty four hours. And when I get there, I’ll feed you your own tongue for even thinking about sleeping with my wife. Then I’ll kill you.”

The call ended.

A few of the guards shifted uneasily, exchanging glances amongst themselves.

Rocco didn’t seem threatened.

He stared at the phone for a couple of seconds, anger evident in his expression. He exhaled slowly and

turned back to me.

“See what I have to deal with?” he asked.

I didn’t respond.

“You lied to me,” he continued. “That doesn’t sound like a man who doesn’t care about you. And you know I hate lies.”

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