1. Diavolo Prologue


    Date: 8/19/2015, Categories: Love Stories, Author: Levanahyll, Rating: 6, Source: LushStories

    gripped her hand and gaped at her. “Okay-okay, I’m sitting. Ma, please.” About to ask her if she needed water or a nurse, she finally calmed and sighed. He held her tiny hand in his much larger one and stroked it. She closed her eyes and breathed for a moment. As time passed, he thought she’d drifted off to sleep. Tears blurred his vision and he ducked his head, ashamed of his moment of weakness. He just wasn’t used to seeing her so defeated. The doctors said it was her heart. She was almost ninety years old and the prognosis wasn’t good. She was the only family he remembered ever having, the memory of his dead parents a foggy memory he only had nightmares about. Gabriel would be completely alone if…when she died. “I was your age when I had your aunt Paulina.” The sound of her speaking again startled him and he gripped her hand tighter. She never spoke of his auntie Paulina. That was even more taboo than talking about his dad, Brendan Brinks. “She was such a beautiful child, but your grandfather’s family spoiled her rotten. She looked just like Francisco, bless his soul. Right down to his dark brown eyes.” She looked lost in her own thoughts, a smile playing about her thin lips. He petted her hand some more and listened intently. Whatever she had to say was obviously important if she was dredging up the memory of his aunt Paulina and grandfather. “Five years later I had your mother. She looked more like me. Of course your great grandmother wasn’t too pleased about that and ...
    always favored Paulina. Rosalina never let that bother her. She was such a good soul, that one. Always putting others before herself. She was good and self sacrificing, always. It’s what won Daniel Montenegro over.” Gabriel’s eyes widened. “Who?’ His grandmother continued as if not hearing him. “He was a fancy rich man, tried to seduce her as she attended him in the hospital. She’d been a nurse back then, but never fell for his playboy ways.” The old woman laughed. “Ah, but he was persistent. He wooed her for almost half a year. By the time she finally let him kiss her for the first time, the man was head over heels for her. They dated a while and he proposed quickly. Rosalina brought him home and he sure was a looker. Had Paulina green with envy.” Her expression grew angry. “That one…always with an eye for the rich ones. Daniel was both filthy rich and sexy as the devil.” “Ma, are you talking about the Daniel Montenegro, owner and CEO of North Star Records?” “I’m talking about…” she began to cough again, flailing her hands at him when he stood to adjust her oxygen mask. A nurse walked in and rushed to her side. “Anna Maria, you shouldn’t tire yourself by talking so much,” she scolded gently adjusting the amount of meds dripping into the IV. His grandmother glared at the girl, but the nurse had eyes only for Gabriel. Gabriel frowned. He was used to women fawning over him, but didn’t enjoy it when their attention should be centered on his grandmother. Anna Maria Arroyo’s eyes ...
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