Just as Gabriella opened her mouth to begin the difficult discussion she’d been wanting to have with him for the last twenty-four hours, her father side-busted their conversation.
“Oh, look. He decides to show up?” Alpha Mitchell growled a few feet away. Gabriella jerked her head toward her father, seeing his hands on his hips, his eyes flashing.
“Papá, no! Not here.” She felt Blaez’s arms tighten and a low growl rumble against her back.
“Gabriella, I refuse to sit by and let you defend him.” He started, “He disgraced you last night. I will not tolerate that!”
Sluggishly moving his head toward her father, his eyes hooded with intoxication, Blaez snarled, “You need to chill out and stay the f**k outta this.”
Her father’s face flushed in offense. “Did you just te
