The Gang Lords Florist

CH.6 First Date

Chapter 6 First Date

Gaby P.O.V.

Sunday morning came all too soon as I make my way downstairs to open shop for everyone. I woke up a bit later than usual still tired and yawning. I have a large cup of coffee in my had as I wait on the counter going through emails. The doorbell sounds off and all three of them walk in to start our day.

“Good morning guys…” I say trying to act energized but failing.

“Sweetie, did you not sleep well last night? You look absolutely exhausted.” John comes in and wraps me in a side hug.

“You can say that. But I will be fine… only have to last a few hours until we call it a day.” I said and then I though of my date tonight with Drake and I instantly have a huge smile on my face.

“What is that?” Trina asks pointing to my huge grin. I start blushing. Trina immediately fired off questions. “Who is it? When? How?...” I interrupt her. All three of them look at me intently.

“I have a date tonight. And it is with Mr. Hot and Sexy” I bite my lower lip waiting for their response. They all coo at me.

“Do tell I want all the deets!” John says

“His name is Drake, and he is only 26, he is a business Entrepreneur, and you’ll know the rest after our date.”

“You are lucky destiny was on your side girl. John you know that weekly house order we must fill, that’s this guys house. He is loaded and has total gaga eyes for her. I was practically invisible to him at the meeting. And I do remember him specifically only allowing you to deliver them.” She then realized that we dropped off our first order already. “Wait did he ask you on Friday? Why did you not tell us?”

“Oops…” I just shyly said.

“So do you know where he is taking you?” Nina finally speaks up.

“I do not really know. He just told me to come over to his place when I am done here.” I say and yawn. “Goodness I wish I wasn’t so tired.”

“O dear do you want to go take a nap and we will handle the meeting?” Trina asked

“No I will be fine, This meeting is an important one. The Hyatt wants us to discuss the upcoming bridal show. We may be one of the big names displaying our work.”

“Ok, go get ready and we got the shop.” John says.

“Thanks love you guys.”

After my meeting, which turned out to be a bigger deal than I thought. I make my way to Drake’s house. I drove my mustang up the driveway and parked. I get out of my car and close the door and see Drake come out of his house and rush to me. He had on a charcoal gray suite with an black dress shirt with the top two buttons undone, He was a sight for sore eyes. He pulled me to him picked me up and spun me around. I could tell he was overly excited to see me again. He put me back down and smashed his lips to mine.

“Wow, you were that anxious to see my huh?” I say to him catching my breath.

Drake P.O.V.

I could not believe it. Gaby and Red are the same person. Gaby just became my perfect woman. She was the best of both worlds. I don’t every think I have felt this way about anyone. And now she is all mine. I did not want to leave her after we made ourselves official. I wanted to take her back home and keep her in my arms. I tossed and turned just missing her already. How has this girl made me so soft? But if anyone was worth showing that side of me than she most definitely was.

I finally get a text that she was done with her meeting and was on her way. I quickly finished the work I had on my desk and made my way to the kitchen to have my cook prepare a nice lunch for us. I told my head butler, Henry, how I wanted everything set up for when Gaby gets here. I finally was told that she was let through the main gate. I headed to the front door. I get out and see her park her mustang and get out of her car. She was stunning. Her blue flowing dress stopped right above the knee showing her long tan legs. She had on a black blazer and her hair flowed down her back in her natural think red curls. Her eyes were hidden behind black sunglasses, but her lips were plump and pink making me want to devour them. I was so anxious to touch her I grabbed her and spun her around and planted my lips to hers.

“Wow, some one was anxious to see my, huh?” She asked taking in a breath.

“Can you blame me. My beautiful girlfriend is finally.” I say excited, She turned her head to the side trying to conceal the red tint forming around her cheeks. She so adorable when she blushes.

“So what’s the plan handsome? Now that you have me all to yourself.” She smirks.

“You will see. I hope you do mind if we stay here for the evening?”

“Not at all, your home is like a tourist destination for me. I still have yet to see the whole property.” She says.

“Well I can give you the grand tour eventually. But for now, let us have lunch.” I walk her in with my arm around her waist keeping her close.

We have a nice lunch out in the back patio overlooking the floral garden I have. She loved the view and was telling me about all the flowers names and facts about them. We talk about business concepts and methods. I tell her about my many ventures, both the legal and illegal. I was glade that I can share that part with her without her judging harshly for it. Finally we talk about fighting and weaponry. I was surprised at her knowledge on the matter.

“Speaking of guns and knives… brings me to the next part of our date.” I say with a smirk. She raises a quizzical brow. “Trust me I think you may like it.” She just nots and smiles like an angel.  

I take her to our gang training center on the other side of the property. We walk in and make our way through all the gym equipment and towards the shooting range. I had a private area made for us to enjoy some target practice. I really wanted to see her abilities. I already know she was a great fighter, but when I saw how she handled herself with a gun and almost took down me and my men, I was curious. There was a table full of guns, goggles, earmuffs, and knives; and a black leather loveseat. At the far end of the long room was several dummies and targets. When we entered the room I saw the happy surprised look at her face. It was like she was a kid in a candy store. She rushed to the table touching everything delicately like she was petting it. I chuckle.

“You like?” I ask her

“MMhm” She nods still with a huge gin on her face. “Target practice?” She asks like she is itching to try her new toys.

“Yup, I was hoping you would like it.”

“O yes..” She seductively says taking one of the handguns and c*****g it back. I was almost jealous at her reaction with the gun in her hand. I hand her a pair of goggle and ear muff, we both take off our blazers and place them on the loveseat. I motion for her to continue as I take a seat. She does not hesitate to put two bullets in the head, and two in the chest. She aims for another target and hit the bullseye several times. She empties the clip without ever missing a target. Then she grabs a snipper riffle and positions it on an empty small table facing the targets. She takes her time and aim for the farthest target, which was a little over 200ft. She breaths and fires several shots before disarming it and placing it back. She then takes a shot gun and c***s it and shoots all the close targets without missing. I am just sitting there admiring her. Watching her expertly handle all these guns made my d**k hard. She finishes with the guns and takes off her goggle ad muffs. I do the same.

“That was fun, you not going to try?” She asks with a huge smile on her face.

“Nah, I really wanted you to have fun. I am more curious to see what you are capable of?” I say with a smirk on my face.

“Ok, well stop drooling, you’ll ruin your shirt.” She winks at me. She then takes three knives in different sizes and throws them at the dummies. One lands on the head, another in the chest and last one at the crotch. Holy s**t! This girl was good. I was mesmerized by this dangerous beauty in front of me. she turns to me with a smirk.

“So you didn’t think I was that good did you?” She comes over and straddles my lap. Boy she was so hot and sexy, I was barely hanging on my a thread.

“That was the sexiest display I have ever seen. Remind me never to get on your bad side.” I grab the back of her head and kiss her feverishly. I grab her ass with my free hand and hear a moan escape her lips. Whatever I was feeling at that moment I knew she felt it too. We break away hearing a knock on the door. Gaby was about to get off my lap when I bring her back grabbing bother her hips in my hand and firmly place her back.

I groan, “Come in!” I yell in frustration.

“Boss, sorry to interrupt but there is a problem!” Miles said guilt written on his face for ruining the moment.

“Ok give me a minute and meet me in my office.” I command him and he nods and leaves.  I turn back to Gaby.

“Sorry Beautiful, I have to work now.” I see the sadness in her eyes.

“Ok, I’ll get going and leave you to it.” She says. As she gets off of me.

“You can stay if you want, I won’t be long, go and take a nap or have a snack. Ill have my head butler escort you to whatever you want to do.” I see her smile grow. I could not let her leave just yet. She nods and I leave with Miles.

I get into my study and see Jacob already there with my two heads of Security.

“What is it?” I coldly spat out.

“One of our shipments was destroyed.” Jacob said sighing. All my men look down as if waiting for my reaction.

I take a deep breath claiming myself down from the two second rage I had fire up. “Who did it?” I eye each one of them.

“Santos” Jacob said. My rage flared up and I yelled “Motherfucker!” I take out my phone and call that idiot

“Well I was wondering when I was going to hear from you?” The i***t had the nerve to act all nonchalant about it.

“Santos, What the f**k do you think you are doing? Because I assure you that this incident that you caused will not go unpunished.” I sternly say.

“Cartellini… you have a more accessible border, all I am asking is for some of my shipments be allowed to cross, form an alliance if you will. Or we can declare war and I take your territory by force. Its up to you?”

“Do you think me for a fool Santos? You already have a border of your own to cross… what’s the matter? Are your men so incompetent to have the feds on your asses… Last thing I want is for your operations drag attention to us. So your answer is no!”

“Very well Cartellini… war it is” with that that Spanish prick hung up the phone.

“f**k!” I yell punching my fist onto my desk. I look up to my men. “We are officially at war with Santos. I need extra protection around our shipments and added protection around the house. Send our spies to his territory and retrieve as much information as you can.” I pause to see if they understand and watch their heads nod. “Lastly I want all our employees rechecked and vetted. I don’t want to find out we have a mole in our midst.” They all nod again. I see Miles furrow his eyebrows.

“Boss… What about your girl?” Miles said his expression laced with concern. He knows how much Gaby means to me.

“s**t!” I said to myself. I need to protect her. I am sure Santos got wind of her existence. “Jacob! You are going to be following Gaby and make sure nothing happens to her. If I find that she gets hurt in anyway I will personally castrate you. Am I clear.” I see him take a big gulf.

“Yes boss!” He nods. I dismissed them and told Jacob to get ready. I make my way downstairs and pass Henry, our head butler.

“Where is she?” I ask

“I left her in the informal living room watching TV, sir.” Henry said. I nod and walk straight to her. I get into the room and see her spread out on the couch sleeping. She looked like an angel. I stood there for a moment captivated by my sleeping beauty. I slowly approach her and kneel beside her and take a closer look at her features. How can a beauty like her turn me so soft inside? If there is anything, I want in the world right now is to make her my queen. I see her stir a little and watch as she slowly opens her eyes. She immediately saw my face and smiled softly. How much more adorable can she be?

“Hey handsome.” She said sounding half asleep.

“Hey beautiful, sorry I took so long. Ready for a house tour?” I figured it would be a good way to tell her what’s going on so she is ready too.

“Yes please.” She smiles. I reach out for her hand and help her up. We walk throughout the house the hand in hand, as I tell her little facts about the different rooms. Finally we come to the backyard and show her the gardens. I figured now would be a good time as any to break the news.

“What’s wrong Drake? You seemed worried. Is everything alright?”  She was very intuitive and observant. I must have had that worried look. I take a deep breath.

“Gaby… I believe I just put your life in danger.” I begin to say and see her look of confusion. “My ‘bad news’ that I had to deal with ended up being a bigger deal than I thought. I am now at war with the southwest territory gang. I am sure if they know how much you mean to me they may want to kidnap you and hold you as leverage against me…” I pause and take a deep breath bringing her closer into my arms embracing her tightly. “Would you consider moving in with me for your protection? I don’t think I can bare having you out in the open and getting hurt because of me.” I see her look up at me with the wheels turning in her head.

“I don’t know Drake… This is all happening so fast. And what about my shop and my friends. And my dad?” She says, her tone laced with concern.

“I can assign some one to watch over all five of them. I have already told Jacob to watch over you. I just can’t have you sleep at you place alone. You would be safer here.” I see her make a heavy sigh and nod her head.

“Ok, but I have a big project for the Hyatt I have to work on, other than that I can close the shop for a few months and compensate my friends for the time off. I am hoping this war wont last long right?” She says with a raised eyebrow. She seemed pretty calm about this, but then again she is no ordinary women. She was a badass street fighter.

“If you need the money to continue paying for the bills I can happily help you…” I begin to say before she shakes her head in disagreement.

“I have more than enough money handsome. I have a rather large rainy day fund.” She smirks. I smile, this woman is so strong and independent.

“So what about moving in with me?” I shyly ask. I almost feel like a nervous teenage boy again. She tilts her head deep in thought and smirks.

“Ok” She simply says. I could not help the happiness that ran through my body. I smash my lips to hers and kiss her with all the happiness I felt at that moment. I know that we are going really fast in this relationship but I am falling hard for her. We finally break apart for air.

“So I guess I have to go back to my place and pack a few things, and tell my friends.” She says still trying to steady her breathing. I just peck her one more time before saying agreeing. I walk her back through the house where I find Jacob standing at the ready at the front door.

“Sweetheart this is Jacob, my third in command, he will be watching over you.” I introduce still holding Gaby to my side.

“Nice to meet you.” She nods and he bows.

“Pleasure is all mine, I know how important you are to boss here and I will make it my lifes mission the protect you.”

“Thank you!” she says graciously. I then take her outside with Jacob following behind us.

“Gaby, give me your car keys so I can have it parked in the garage. I want you to take one of my SUV’s instead. Just an extra precaution.” She nods and grabs her key and hand it to me, I then hand it to one of my men.

“If there is so much as a hair line scratch on my baby, I will personally castrate you!” She yells at my man ready to drive her car over. I just laugh at her feistiness. She definitely will make my perfect queen to my empire.

“Ok Red… calm down, to sooner you leave the sooner you can come back.” I lean in to give her a long kiss and then helping her into the back seat of the SUV. Jacob goes around to the drivers side and starts the engine. “Jacob make sure you take good care of her.” I say sternly at him. “Yes Boss.” He nods. I close her door and watch them take off.