Husband With Benefits-Chapter 621: Bad Jokes

"OOhh! Look what the wind brought inside... A crab..." Ian announced with a smirk.

"A healthy crab at that! Nice," Sebastian added, grinning widely.

Gabe stared at the two jokesters and rolled his eyes as he pulled a chair for himself," This crab can pinch really hard, so you might want to be careful..."

Ian and Sebastian exchanged glances and continued to tease him," Ahh! Gabe Frost... it seems small town life suits you! It’s made you all rosy and pleasant... You even think pinching us is a threat. How cute.."

Seb shook his head at Ian and said," Nah! This is not the effect of being in a small town. Its Autumn Frost effect.

"But Frost has not been inside Autumn, yet, has he?" Ian asked, earning himself a threatening glance from Gabe over the crude joke while Sebastian simply laughed out loud. They would never have dared to say this in the presence of the women, but this was indeed a good time to tease Gabe.

Before Gabe could actually hit his brother, the door opened and Demetri and Lucien walked in.

"Well, well, what have we here? A family gathering without us?" Demetri said, raising an eyebrow.

"And it looks like we walked in on something interesting," Lucien added, noticing the mischievous glint in Ian and Sebastian’s eyes. " What are we discussing?"

"About how Frost has not yet been inside Autumn." Seb said nonchalantly... Lucien coughed as he heard this while Gabe picked up the pen in front of him and threw it at Sebastian who caught it and chucked it back at Gabe.

With a smile, Demetri took his place and murmured," He hasn’t been all over her yet, as well. According to my Nora, that is."

That caused all his brothers to break out into laughter while Gabe glared at his traitor of a brother! "Demon Frost! I will kill you!" Gabe burst out, ready to kick his brothers.

"Okay okay! We won’t tease you anymore. Let’s discuss the most important topic first."

The brothers dropped the teasing look and were about to jump into work mode, when Seb continued, " Deciding what to have for lunch is the first order of the day and then we need to discuss the New policy of the government and its impacts..."

Ian shook his head and pointed at Seb," Poor Gabe has been summoned back because of the project and instead of doing that, you believe deciding lunch is more important?"

Seb nodded," Of course. We can’t work on empty stomachs. I’ll order crab legs..."

After catching another flying pen from Gabe’s direction, the brothers finally moved to the upcoming discussion about expanding to another sector of which Gabe would habe to take over...

It was only after a lengthy discussion over the plan of action that every one returned to work, clapping Gabe on the back, until only Demetri was left behind...

Gabe sighed and sat back down on his chair.Knowing Demon Frost, they were going to have some sort of a discussion...

"You’ve become quite chatty after marrying Nora."

Demetri shrugged," She’s rubbed off on me. True.. More than I can say about you and your wife."

Gabe glared at Demetri, even as he felt himself shake his head. It felt good to joke around. Even though he was the bu** of the joke at this moment.

Gabe shook his head in exasperation," Fine fine. Tell me."

"I needed to speak about Arabelle."

"About Arabelle? Well, she is a good kid and she is safe. I mean, yeah, she is in danger from that man but other than that, we are okay. She is also a handful, but then little girls are like that..."

There was a moment of silence as Demetri stared at him. It took him a moment, to realize that Demetri was not talking about the little girl... frёewebηovel.cѳm

Before he could question him, though, Demetri continued," I meant what are your plans after the situation with Arabelle is settled. I know for a fact that you planned to separate from Autumn once the Arabelle situation was settled. But this is going to take longer than you had anticipated. And your feelings about Autumn have changed..."

Gabe paused... His feelings for Autumn... What were they? He had no idea. He liked her? Yes. He wanted to be with her? Yes. He’d been considering making their relationship permanent? Yes. But all that was true. But that had all been in the back of his mind. He hadn’t expected to be questioned like this... However, he answered truthfully, " I am still thinking. But I am considering making this marriage the forever kind. I like Autumn and I hope she likes me too. We make a good family..."

Demetri leaned back in his chair, studying Gabe with a thoughtful expression. That expression made Gabe want to almost fidget but he restrained himself until Demetri finally spoke, "You know, Gabe, it’s great that you’re considering making this marriage permanent. But have you thought about Autumn’s feelings in all of this?"

Gabe sighed, running a hand through his hair. " Of course,I have, Demon. I’m not that big a jerk! I don’t know how she feels. I mean, I know she is attracted to me but what would be her thoughts on a long term marriage based only on physical attraction and friendship, I don’t know. She might want to fall in love some day and all! I know that! But at the moment, she has so much on her plate that I don’t want to complicate things further."

"If you really want this to work, you have to be honest with her. Completely honest, Gabe. All of us like that girl. She’s done what we couldn’t. She’s returned the smile your face. For us, Autumn is already part of the family. So, even if things won’t work out..." Gabe nodded, understanding what Demetri was warning him of. Not to hurt Autumn or they would hurt him. It was a simple threat. And yet he liked it. He was proud of Autumn for having created that space herself in his family.

And yet, as he realized this, he knew that Demetri was right. Autumn had pushed away the darkness that was clinging to him for a long time... Ever since he’d realized how sick Arabelle was and still chosen to be by her side...

"Relax. I’ll be honest with her..." Gabe tried to assure but Demetri was not satisfied.. and added pointedly," Everything Gabe... Things that you’ve kept hidden from the others as well...even regarding your medical conditions...."