Charmed by the Billionaire CEO
Chapter 488: Won’t let anything happen to you

Chapter 488: Won’t let anything happen to you

Annoyed by the interruption, Gabriel forced himself down from the couch and walked towards the door.

As soon as he opened it, a deep line formed between his brows as he started the woman in front of him.

Bianca who had finally shown up, looked like a tomato with those red cheeks. But what caught him by surprise were her eyes that tried to avoid him.

"Ahem... sorry to bother you... again but... can we talk" Bianca managed to muster the courage and finally spoke.

She was still feeling giddy inside her stomach. Talking with Gabriel wasn’t easy, not after what she had seen in the morning.

The view of his chiseled body still lingered in her mind and every time she thought of how handsome he was, she would end up blushing.

’Stop it, Bianca..’ she scolded herself in her mind for recalling that scene in her mind for god knows how many times.

Unable to look straight into his eyes, Bianca quickly lowered her head and waited for his response.

She knew she had already made a fool out of herself when she ran away like a scared mouse earlier. She didn’t want to repeat the same mistake and shove herself into the category of someone who had lost her mind.

So she decided to sound sincere.

Gabriel stood there observing the girl silently finally hummed. "Come in" With those two words he turned around and returned back to his seat.

Bianca raised her head when she saw his retreating steps and clutched her chest.

’This is going to be difficult’ she mumbled to herself before following him.

Taking the seat on the cushion chair, Bianca watched Gabriel resume his game. He seemed least bothered to initiate the talk, but since she wanted to get the answers to her question, she didn’t let his ignore affect her.

After all, he had been this cold and indifferent to her since their very first meeting, and this deafening silence between the two made the situation even more overbearing.

Clearing her throat she finally decided to speak and break the ice between the two.

"I... I want to know who those people are and why are they after me" Her words instantly stopped Gabriel’s fingers working on the remote and his face turned cold like ice.

The corner of his lips curled up into a sinister smirk, slowly turning his head to her. "Don’t you already know?" he asked.

Gabriel had presumed that Bianca wasn’t dumb enough to let him help her, just like that. But now that he stared at her carefully, the girl seemed to be unaware of everything.

Bianca frowned at his mocking smile. She could see that Riel looking down at her intelligence indirectly doubting her capability.

"If I had known, I wouldn’t be here," she said.

The smile on Riel’s face faltered a little and his brow arched doubtfully.

"Is that so? How can a capable doctor like you forget such an important thing" A tinge of playfulness could be sensed through his words, which made Bianca’s calm eyes glare at him, silently.

"What do you mean?" she asked sensing the hidden meaning behind his playful words.

Gabriel might have considered her dumb, but she wasn’t. The motive behind his doubting her capability made her curious.

This man had different layers of personality hiding behind his sweet-looking face. The image he maintained in front of the audience was just a façade. Instead, there was more of him that no one knew.

As she stared at him seriously, the smile he had been forcing to maintain vanished, now replacing his face with a cold one.

"Do you remember treating a patient who was shot" his words slipped her into a deep thought and her mind began to rack, recalling the past.

As soon as her memories matched with his words she gaped. "I do remember treating a patient who slipped into a coma for a few days after the surgery. It was a critical situation but the lady survived but-" She stopped remembering how the lady disappeared the very next day after she woke up.

"But she disappeared without your acknowledgment" It was Gabriel who finished her sentence.

Bianca gave him a doubtful look but gradually nodded her head.

"But, how is she responsible for my kidnapping? We don’t even know each other" she asked.

Gabriel’s cold eyes bored into her questioning one and finally, he decided to tell her everything.

It took Bianca a moment to grasp her thoughts as she sat on the chair numb. She happened to help someone whom she shouldn’t and that someone was directly related to the Knights and... him.

"So you aren’t Riel Scott, but Gabriel Emerson, the mafia" she stuttered slowly getting struck by the deadly reality.

The man she adored all this time was a mafia leader.

Giving her a nod, Gabriel stood up with his hands slipping on both pockets. Fixing his gaze with hers, he watched her gulp.

The moment her lips pursed into a thin line, and her Adam’s apple bobbled, Gabriel felt a rush of heat passing through his body.

Bianca looked so innocent with her eyes staring at him. But now that he finally noticed her features, he realized how beautiful she was.

Those blue eyes bored into his while her cheeks flushed once again, Gabriel suddenly got the urge to kiss her.

’What is wrong with you Riel’ a voice scolded him from behind and he quickly looked away.

Clearing his throat, he tried brushing away those fleeting feelings, quickly returning to his original cold demeanor.

"The reason why I decided to help you is because you are the prime lead that would take us to Sandra," he said breaking her trance.

Blinking away the dizziness that was slowly clouding her frozen mind, Bianca slowly returned to reality.

"But how will they find me? I am isolated in this house" she voiced her concern.

Bianca felt like getting dragged into this mess for no reason. She was just doing her job treating her patient, but who would have thought those people whom she helped weren’t ordinary ones, but criminals?

No matter how much she wanted to get out of this, she knew her life was at stake.

One mistake and she would be killed.

"Don’t worry... I won’t let anything happen to you" As if understanding her thoughts, Gabriel immediately assured her, which even left Bianca surprised.