A New Hope

Chapter 6

Another day in paradise I think to myself as I wake up, not surprised at all that Gabriel isn't beside me. He let me know that unless I start waking up at six or earlier, I'd be waking up alone. He also let me know that I'd always wake up to coffee and fresh fruit to make up for his absence.

He was very strict with his gym routine vacation or not, he liked the way he looked but he said it was more for his mental health. Without a morning work out his ADHD gets so bad that he can't focus or get anything done. He tried different medications but never found one that worked as his natural routine.

I went into the bathroom got cleaned up and put on my new dress, Gabriel was right it did look good on me. I put the concealer over the worst bruises and bite mark, but it was still noticeable. I shrugged to myself in the mirror and went to pour myself some coffee.

I wanted to be dressed and ready to leave once Gabriel got back, so we'd actually have a chance at leaving the villa today. He even insisted that he's going to jump in the ocean to rinse off after his work out. Apparently he doesn't think he could control himself being naked with me in the next room.

We decided to go to the elephant sanctuary today and do some site seeing. We'd use the tickets for the elephant and atv safari later when I was hopefully not as sore.

Gabriel made a dinner reservation for tonight for a five star restaurant based on its cheese cake reviews and I didn't argue with him. He told me if I complain about him spending money on me he'll only spend more.

I always feel bad when people spend money on me even its only a coffee on a work break. I've always worked to provide for myself and never expect a hand out and have a hard time accepting one. So being spoiled by Gabriel is very foreign to me and makes me feel uncomfortable.

Last night I was joking about him being a millionaire, and he said he hasn't been millionaire since a year after he took over for his grandpa. I'm pretty sure he was insinuating that he's now a billionair. It blows my mind. He doesn't come across as an arrogant rich asshole. I haven't known him long but from what I can tell he's not self entitled at all.

He didn't grow up with a silver spoon. His parents were well off, but not rich. He started working when he was fifteen at a landscaping company. His grandpa starting teaching him how to take over the business at seventeen, but never let him profit from it until he took over the business.

I finished my coffee and was doing some stretches on the patio when Gabriel came back carrying another bag for me and smiling, his hair still wet from his dip in the ocean.

"Wow you look amazing in that dress" he told me as he walked up giving me a kiss. "good morning baby, how was your sleep?"

"I slept like a baby in your arms, you? How was the work out?" I asked him as he walked in to put his gym clothes in the closet and change his shoes.

"I've never slept better in my life then I do next to you! It was great... I think your s*x is giving me super strength, speed, and stamina" he chuckled.

"What do you mean?"

"Well yesterday the workout that I should barely be able to push through I did easily. Today I used double the weight and was barely out of breath."

"Really? Probably just getting away from the winter hibernation mode of Canada" I mused as he passed me the bag he brought back for me.

"Gabe you can't keep spoiling me like this, especially since I can't afford to do the same for me"

"Would it make it okay if I give you money to spend on me?" he asked completely serious.

"No! that's not the same and you know it!" I scolded him while he just laughed and shrugged his shoulders.

I pulled out a bright pair of elephant pants, that were very light and breezy and looked like they would be extremely comfortable and an adorable plus elephant in the same bright colors.

"Awwwwe its adorable I love it!" I said hugging it close to me.

Gabriel looked like he was gonna say something but stopped and smiled before saying, "I knew you'd love it, now let's go get breakfast and hit the road"

We spent most the day at the elephant sanctuary, I couldn't stop smiling and Gabriel was paying more attention to me than the elephants. There was even a mud spa with the beautiful giants. I was in such awe of the gentle giants. They've always been my favourite animal and I finally got to interact with not just one but dozens.

Gabriel took me to a couple view points on the way back to the villa and they were all beautiful. This was such a tropical paradise and had so many things to see. I couldn't get over the beautiful colors of the ocean and how they differed from the Canadian oceans I was used.

The whole time I wanted to stop and kiss Gabriel, but I'd notice his eyes start to go black if I got to close or kissed him too long. I've never known anyone's eyes to do that before and when I asked if mine did he just laughed at me saying no.

On our drive back he made me make a list of all the things I wanted to do on Phuket and promised we'd get to them all. I told him two weeks wasn't enough for that and he just gave me a devilish grin like he was planning something else.

Once we got back to the entrance of the villa, Gabriel put an alarm at his phone and winked at me as he put it back in his pocket.

"Hope I had an amazing day with you, but that was torture" he growled at me then tossed me over his shoulder and ran me to the room throwing me on the bed.

He literally ripped the dress off of me and ripped my panties in two. Wasting no time in diving his face into my p***y, quickly pulling off his shorts and boxers. He flipped me over and shoved his hard c**k into me, f*****g me until the alarm on his phone went off. He cursed as he carried me into the shower.

Holding my arms above my head with my back against the wall, he pounder into me making me scream in pleasure as I had another euphoric orgasm.

"Oh Gabe, c*m in me, This p***y is all yours" I moaned.

He bit my neck as he came into me making us both quiver in ecstasy. I watched as his eyes turned blue again and he finally put me down, smacking my ass.

"I have no idea how I made it through the day. There was so many times when I just wanted to bend you over, or pull over the car and make you ride me" he wondered to himself as we both cleaned ourselves up.

"Is s*x really all that you think about?" I chuckled at him.

"I mean I am a guy, but no. It never drove me insane. You drive me insane, like your my drug." he said biting his lip as his eyes darkened again.

"Uh uh mister you keep those eyes blue, we still got dinner and I haven't gotten to swim in the ocean yet!" I wagged my finger at him while pushing past him out the shower.

"Fiiiine" he sighed slapping me on the ass.

After getting dressed I walked into the bedroom and picked up my ripped dress and panties and put them into the trash.

I figured the insane lust Gabriel had for me would subside a little after a full day of s*x, but he seemed to be turning more into an animal. Like his appetite for me was only growing.

"You've woken up a beast in me Hope" Gabriel said like he read my thoughts, "and I need to put a leash on it before I scare you away"

"You couldn't scare me away, I don't think the beast would ever hurt me. But a little self control never hurt anyone" I chuckled as we left the villa to go to the restaurant.

The restaurant that we ate at was amazing, the foods plating was beautiful and everything tasted amazing. The cheese cake was to die for as well. Gabriel ate double the amount of a man his size would normally eat making me surprised his appetite for s*x wasn't the only big appetite he had. The waitress even told him he should enter a eating competition.

The sun had already set by the time we finished, but it was still warm out and perfect weather for an evening swim. As we walked back into the villa to change into bathing suits, Gabriel's phone rang. He sighed and answered it, walking out to the patio.

I changed into my bikini and grabbed a towel while I waited and walked out to him.

"One second," he said into the phone, lowering it down to his chest. "I'm sorry Hope, I have to take this. Go on ahead and I'll be there shortly"

I nodded pressed my body against his, got on my tip toes and gave him a kiss. He inhaled sharply then sighed waving me off.

I kicked off my flats once I got to the sandy beach and walked a bit to find a spot to swim. It was early evening and even though it was dark there was people spread out across the beach.

I looked around wondering if Gabriel would have a hard time finding me in the moonlight, but realized I was the only single person on the beach, everyone else was paired off or in small groups.

I walked into the warm water up to my waist and let the waves gently rock me back and forth. The water was slightly colder then the air but not enough to make me cold in the evening breeze. The beach was pretty quiet except for a few groups that were obviously drunk, you could hear them roar with laughter every now and then.

I dived in the water and swam around a bit before floating on my back and looking at the stars. Every couple minutes I'd look back at the beach to make sure I wasn't being pulled out to the ocean. I felt grateful and humbled beneath the stars. This vacation would be amazing on its own, but having Gabriel as mine made it unreal and dream like.

I heard a group of men laughing closer to me and was that cat calling? I stood up and sure enough they were walking on the beach towards me. There was four of them and in the moonlight looked to be early twenties.

One of them stepped forward as the others pushed him and laughed. "Hey sexy why don't you come over here and we can show you a good time" he slurred and laughed with his friends.

"I'm good thanks, have a good night" I said to them backing up in the water as they started to walk into the water.

"Awe don't be like that, we're all on vacation, noone has to know" another one spoke up.

"Yeah f**k off boys your drunk and I'm not into your small d**k energy" I sneered at them making them stop laughing.

"f*****g b***h you shouldn't -"

"GET THE f**k AWAY FROM HER!" Gabriel roared interrupting the guy.

He ran over and tackled the guy who called me a b***h into the water, the other three pulled Gabriel off their friend while landing as many punches as they could.

"Four against one, you f*****g stupid man?" one mocked Gabriel as his friend got up.

Gabriel ignored their assault and went for the one that called me a b***h. He grabbed him by the throat lifting him off the ground and tossing him onto the beach so now he was standing between me and them.

"I'm not stupid, I'm f*****g pissed!" Gabriel spat at them as he knocked one of them out with a punch to the jaw then made another double over from a punch to the gut.

"Holy f**k, sorry man, we didn't mean anything by it. We're going now!" yelled the one while putting his hands in the air in surrender.

He was the only one that Gabriel didn't lay hands on yet and looked terrified that he was next. Gabriel turned on him ignoring what he said and the guy turn and ran. He then turned to the others like he was going to keep thrashing them.

"Gabriel stop! Let them go!" I yelled at him as I made my way over to him.

He ignored me and started kicking the one he thrown on the beach.

"f**k I'm sorry, please stop!" the guy gasped as he was kicked.

"Gabe! Let's go they're not worth it!" I pleaded with him and started pulling him away.

He stopped kicking and slightly relaxed under my touch.

"If you even look at my girl again I will rip your f*****g heads off!" He hissed to the two guys, their friend was still knocked out on the beach.

I grabbed his hand and dragged him away from the other guys. His whole body was vibrating with rage as we walked in silence.

"Gabe?" I whispered once he stopped shaking.

"Yes baby?" he spoke softly looking down at me, his eyes still looked black in the night.

"You're hurting my hand" I told him making him relax his grip and pull my hand up to his lips to kiss.

"Sorry" he mumbled into my hand. "I never fight, it's bad for business, but I wanted to kill them" he growled looking over his shoulder like he might go back.

"Those d**k heads are harmless and not worth it. I was about to really give them a piece of my mind and shoo them away before you got their. I'm a big girl and can handle myself" I told him while leading him towards the villa.

"I don't care if you can handle yourself. Your mine and no one should ever look at you like that let alone confront you! I'm yours so that means I'm your protector." He growled. "I sound crazy, I don't know whats coming over me." He shook his head.

"You do sound crazy. I am yours, but that doesn't mean you can lose your s**t on anyone that does me wrong. Its a big world full of ass holes and we're bound to run into some." I scolded him.

He was silent for the rest of the walk lost in thought, but I could feel him calling down and returning to himself again. As we got to door I realized that I left my flats and towel at the beach.

"f**k I forgot my towel and flats" I let go of his hand and turned to go back and he grabbed my hand again.

"No, I don't want you walking around alone at night anymore and I don't trust myself to go back down there yet." he ordered me.

"Excuse me? You can order me around in bed, but Gabe I'm an independent woman" I told him feeling insulted. He softened his face and bent down to kiss me on the forehead.

"You're right you are, but please? I have no idea why I'm losing control like I am, but just bare with me while I figure out, why your driving me insane?" He softly pleaded with me. "Unless I'm too much for you?" he asked looking devastated that I might want to leave.

I was pissed off, I don't like getting told what I can and can't too. I have been making my own decisions since I was fifteen and never let a man control me. That didn't make me want to leave Gabriel though, usually I'd be running for the door. Something tied me to him and made it impossible to be upset or mad at him.

"No Gabe your not too much, but something weird is going on. Your eyes going black and acting like an animal? Marking my neck. Calling me your mate... I'm yours and your mine, but don't you think its unnatural how fast and hard we've fallen for eachother?"

"Your right Hope I know its way too fast, but it feels completely natural with you. The mate bond is like no human bond... f**k!" He turned around and ran to his phone, sending a message to someone.

"What do you mean unlike no human bond?! Who did you text?" I questioned him, weirded out about by what he could mean.

"Something my grandpa would say. The mate bond is like no human bond, I just thought he meant the men in our family were romantics... he said when I found my mate I'd know and I'd go through major changes. Before he passed he gave me this number to text when I found my mate and insisted I use it, because I'd need help. I always thought it was a wedding planner or something, but now I'm not too sure..." he explained to me looking just as confused himself.

Something else? Is there a deeper reason or meaning behind our addictive attraction to eachother?

His phone started ringing before I could reply. He answered it and walked out the villa.

I sat there feeling like this soul mate thing was too good to be true. The other shoe was about to drop and I had no idea what it could be. As fearful as I was to what this meant or what could be wrong, I knew I'd stay with Gabriel through this mystery. Maybe some kind of mania ran in his family and somehow I set it off in him? But that couldn't explain me fast and irrevocable feelings.

Gabriel walked in looking like a ghost as he sat next to me.

"That was my birth father"