Healing Gabriel by Elizabeth Kelly Read Free Book Online

him
standing by the curtain and melted into the darkness.
    It wasn’t long before she returned.  He could hear Natalia’s
voice and he smiled a little.
    “Ms. Wilson, the play is starting soon.”
    “I know honey.  I have a surprise for you.  It’ll only take
a minute.”
    He could feel the grin spreading on his face as Morgan
appeared in front of him, leading Natalia by the hand.
    Natalia cried out with surprise and then hugged him
fiercely, her thin arms squeezing his waist.  “Uncle Gabe!  You’re here!”
    “Hi Nat.”  He returned her hug and kissed the top of her
head.  She was dressed like a fairy, complete with transparent wings on her
back and a garland of flowers around her head.  “You look pretty.”
    “Thanks Uncle Gabe!  I’m a fairy princess!”  She held her
dress out and twirled in a circle.
    “You’re the prettiest fairy princess I’ve ever seen.”  He
kissed her head again as she giggled.
    She smiled up at him.  “Are you going to go sit with mama
and daddy?”
    “Um…”
    “Actually honey, I’ve asked your Uncle Gabe to watch the
play backstage with me so I wouldn’t be lonely.”  Morgan broke in smoothly.
    “That’s so nice of him.”  The little girl replied.
    “It is.”  Morgan agreed.  She patted Natalia on her arm. 
“Okay sweetheart, you had better go back with the rest of your class.  Good
luck!”
    “Thanks Ms. Wilson.  Bye Uncle Gabe!”  She blew them both a
kiss and ran off as Morgan smiled at Gabe.
    “I should have brought popcorn.”
    He grinned at her.  At some point smiling at her had become
as natural as smiling at Natalia.  “I’ve got some mints in my pocket.”
    She laughed.  “Don’t be stingy – pass them over.”
    He dug in his pocket and gave her the mints.  She popped one
in her mouth and handed them back.  The curtains began to draw back and she
smiled.  “Enjoy the show.”
    * * *
     
    “Cheese and crackers!”  Morgan bent and began to pick up the
fallen laundry.  It had been pouring rain for most of the day and she had just
spilled her freshly washed laundry all over the muddy driveway.
    She sighed as she threw her clothes back into the laundry
basket.  The carriage house was great and she loved it, but it didn’t have a
washer and dryer so she had to lug her laundry to the Laundromat to wash her
clothes.  Tripping had just cost her two hours of her life, and now she had to
head directly back into town to wash them again.
    “What are you doing?”
    Gabe and the dogs had come out of the barn and she shooed
Delilah and Vincent away from her clothes.  “I tripped and spilled my laundry. 
Now I’m heading back into town to wash them again.”  She replied a bit
grumpily.
    “You can use the washer and dryer in my house if you’d like.” 
Gabe offered tentatively.
    “Really?  Are you sure you wouldn’t mind?”  Morgan asked. 
    “Nope.”  He took the basket of laundry from her and started
towards the house.  She followed along behind him as the dogs bounded ahead.
    “Thank you so much Gabe.  You have no idea how much I
appreciate this.”
    “Yeah, no problem.”
    They entered the house and he pointed to the dog beds in the
living room and made the hand motion for the dogs to lie down.  They went
immediately to their beds as she slipped her shoes off before following him to
the laundry room.
    “Ooh, this is nice.”
    He grunted.  “It’s just a washer and dryer.”
    “Yeah, but when you spend two hours in a Laundromat and some
guy sits next to you and picks his nose the entire time, this is a little slice
of heaven.”  She laughed.
    He twitched when she squeezed by him.  The laundry room was
small, and he was too aware of her scent and the way her ass looked in her
tight jeans.
    He watched as she dumped the entire basket of clothes into
the washing machine.  “Aren’t you going to separate them into darks, colours
and whites?”
    “Nah.  I like to live life on the edge.  Besides,