Page 266 of The Bonus

I look around, and my eyes widen…

What the…

The room is cream and coffee colors, beautiful velvet bedding and a big duck shell–blue rug. Crystal lamps and oh… “Gabe,” I whisper. “This is the most beautiful room I’ve ever seen.”

He kisses my temple. “Do you like it?”

“I love it.”

“Oh, and look.” He walks to a door and opens it. “This is your wardrobe.” I walk into a full other room; the entire walls are shelves and racks, and in the middle is a huge marble set of drawers.

It looks like a Kardashian wardrobe.

“I bought you a few things…it’s colder here.”

I look around, and there are designer clothes all hanging with the price tags still on them.

My eyes flick to him in question. “You bought me clothes?”

“Just a few things.” He shrugs. “You can return anything you don’t like.”

“Thanks,” I whisper, distracted.

“This is our bathroom.” He opens another door and I see a sunken circular bath and shower in apricot marble.

My eyes roam around, and I honestly don’t know what to look at first. This is ridiculous wealth, how much did this place cost?

“What do you think?” Gabriel whispers nervously. “Do you like it?”

“It’ll do…I guess.”

He chuckles and pulls me into a hug and kisses my temple. “Thanks for coming, it means a lot.”

“Mom.” Lucia tugs on my shirt.

Gabriel holds me tight, not letting me go.

“Yes?” I smile, unable to take my eyes off my beautiful man.

“I need to poo?”

Gabriel closes his eyes and I giggle; kids have impeccable timing.

The bedroom is dark, lit only by the television as it drones in the background.

After swimming in the pool and then in the hot tub, dinner and showers and the whole damn rigmarole, we are in bed watching Home Alone, the children between us and seemingly settling in for the night.

“Why don’t we get you into your own rooms?” Gabriel suggests.

“No,” Lucia snaps as she snuggles closer into him. “We want to sleep with you tonight, our bedrooms are scary.”

“They’re right next door,” he mutters dryly.

I smile into my pillow. He wants alone time, and the kids are being super clingy because they’re in a new environment.

“We want to sleep with you tonight,” Dominic announces. “The bed is big enough.”

Gabriel rolls his eyes and pinches the bridge of his nose.

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