The Grand Mistress

"I am so madly in love with you," Primo replied whilst looking into her eyes. He was so damned serious Gabriella couldn't bear to leave him but she could not also allow Lucy to go alone. For all she knew, the singer had looked for her all night.

"Can you just let me leave with Lucy in peace?"

"You can't leave me," Primo held onto her hands desperately.

"Primo, how about I just leave with Lucy right now...then I'll come back for dinner?" Gabriella thought of something to end Primo and Lucy's war. "You said you had an important meeting this afternoon, right? How about you go to your office to work, then I'll go with Lucy. I'll be bored anyway, alone in your mansion. We'll meet at dinner,"

Primo looked into her eyes for a moment simply not trusting it. We'll it not that he doesn't trust her, only Lucy. He knew that that woman would do anything in her power to make Gabriella not come back to her.

"I need to talk to Lucy and explain to her some things. Besides I can't just leave her house without saying my thank you's personally," Gabriella added. "Just let me go with her okay?"

"Does that mean you are going to live with me now?" Primo was hopeful.

Gabriella nodded in agreement. "Don't you dare break my heart or I'll leave you,"

Primo smiled at her threat. That was the sweetest threat he had ever heard. With his heart full of warmth and joy he took her hand and kissed it lovingly. "I won't,"

"Okay. I'll leave with Lucy now, you go to work," Gabriella dismissed him, trying not to make his public display of affection pretty obvious. For all she knew, Lucy was watching her every move and the singer might end up killing her for being such a flirt.

Gabriella, with thorough relief, walked back to Lucy but just a few steps away, she heard the man called. "Dulzura?"

The heiress turned to him confused. What does he want now, didn't they already agree on things? However, before she could ask what he wanted, he saw Primo walked toward her with haste and without warning, planted one soft kiss on her lips. 

"My kiss," Primo smiled widely at her bewildered expression and lavished himself over the look of her face for a while. When he was done, he turned to Lucy with a serious expression. "She's coming with you for now, but she'll come home tonight,"

"As if!" Lucy cussed.

"If she's not at home by dinner, I'll send an army to Allegria Penthouses," Primo threatened and Lucy only rolled an eye with him. She wanted to argue more but Gabriella took her arm already and dragged her to her own car.

"Lucy, come on!" Gabriella  hurried and closed the car's door right away. She then turned to Lucy's diver and instructed. "Drive.."

"Gabriella, what's all this?" Lucy confronted her right away. "Are you really with El Tigre now?"

"Lucy...I don't know how to tell you it happened so fast…" Gabriella told her very relieved that the war had finally ended without much casualty.

"It happened so fast? Did you really fuck him in Mondrew City?" Lucy was triggered. Thinking about the news last night of Primo suddenly showing up in the Monteria's party and how he kidnapped Gabriella made her suspicions about the story of them meeting up in Mondrew City, real. 

"How did you know?" Gabriella was really surprised how the singer came to know about her secret.

"You went on blabbering with it previously when you were drunk!" Lucy told her. "And the heck you didn't tell us all about this? What happened to us not having secrets?"

"Eh? Lucy!" Gabriella went to hug her and appease her. "Lucy, the truth was I was just following your instructions. Remember what you told me in Mondrew City when we were at the bar? You told me to go and fuck someone that night. So I went and got laid with him!"

"Hey! How dare you blame this on me!" Lucy raised a brow as she kept on chiding Gabriella. "I told you to go and fuck someone but not El Tigre!"

"I didn't know he was EL Tigre then!" Gabriella confessed and Lucy's eyes went big at that.

"You didn't?"

Gabriella shook her head in confirmation. "Truth was I didn't plan on it. For all I knew I was just trespass some empty yacht to go stargazing and the rest was history,"

"How could you know it wasn't him? Everyone knows who El Tigre was!"

"Certainly not me! Only you and Sisi were head over heels in love with him," She replied, trying to prove her innocence.

Lucy thought about it for a moment and realized she was telling the truth. Gabriella indeed had never shown any interest to El Tigre before as her world only revolved around Erwan like he was the only male species alive.

"So what happened last night? Was your meeting coincidental?" Lucy was really curious. She knew for a fact that EL Tigre doesn't show up at parties unless it was needed. So how come the man showed up at the Monteria's party?

"He claimed he saw my pictures on the net as people posted me saying they found Serafina's owner," Gabriella narrated. "I don't know if he was saying the truth but he said he sent people to look for me," 

Thinking about it, Gabriella blushed. How could she not when she just realized the man indeed went through so much just to find her. "When we parted in Mondrew City we both don't know each other and I gave him a fake name,"

"How dare you blush over it," Lucy noticed. "Don't tell me you have fallen into his trap! Gabriella, do you know what kind of person he is?"

"He is the kind that makes you and Sisi fall in love," Gabriella emphasized what she had seen as the truth.

"Gosh! How could you pull this on us!" Lucy was definitely frustrated. She didn't know how to make Gabriella understand the situation she was in as she certainly had no ounce of idea what kind of man Primo was. "You know Gabbie, I know you had seen me and Sisi obsessing on him but that was because he was a well celebrated man in Devon City. He was a hero who fought rebels in the countryside and ended some war but that doesn't mean being his woman is a great thing. His profile is too much for you to bear,"

Hearing it, the brightness in Gabriella's face faded. "I know Lucy. I'm not a fool to believe I'm good for him as certainly I'm not. I know it. You don't have to remind me. It's just that….I don't know I find him sincere and I kind of like it. But I know it can't be, I'm just….I'm just Gabriella and he is EL Tigre."

"Oh Gabbie it's not what I meant," Lucy regretted what she had just said. She didn't intend things the way Gabriella understood it. "What I mean is that, because of his profession being a Lawyer and his previous job as a captain of the army, Primo had many enemies. His life entails so much danger and that danger extends to whomever he loves. I can't let you suffer that,"

"Because I am naive and weak," Gabriella thought so, sounding like she was self pitying over how weak of a woman she was. Unlike Simione and Lucy, they can tend to their own without depending on others and how she wished she could pull such strength. "I understand,"

"Gabriella I'm sorry," Lucy apologized for her intrusion. She never thought all would end, making Gabriella  upset about herself. All she ever wanted was to protect him from El Tigre's grab as she knew how hard it was to be involved in such a man. She could see threat in all ways, not only with El Tigre's nemesis but also with all the women who had long wanted the title of being a Madam's household. Besides, El Tigre was a man who was used to having all the women he could demand, she was afraid he'll just ignore Gabriella once he was done with her. 

"I'm really sorry Gabriella. I don't know how to tell you this, but I am really afraid he's not really—"

"That he's not really serious with me," Gabriella cut her off completely. Then after a while, she looked at Lucy helpless, "I tried Lucy. I tried all my best to shoo him away, I didn't even gave him my real name because I just want to forget whatever happened in Mondrew City but its really hard to keep pushing him when he keeps on telling me how he was crazy over me and that he can't bear to be away with me. He wanted me to stay,"

"I know I might just be his flavor for the month, that's a big possibility," Gabriella added. "But.. I know this sounds totally insane, but I wanted to try it and experience his devotion even for a while. Even if I know it might not last,"