Husband With Benefits-Chapter 591: A Risk

As Autumn settled into the car, she leaned her head back against the seat and sighed, feeling the tears threaten to fall. Though she had no idea why she was feeling like crying. She’d already cried about the betrayal. Maybe because she just realized that Bianca had probably been the one who had helped Gregory Savoy fan those rumors about her.

She jerked when Gabe suddenly held her hand and she felt something cold on her skin. She opened her eyes to see Gabe applying burn medicine on the little red skin where the hot coffee had touched her. Unexpectedly, she giggled, making him look up at him.

When he looked at her questioningly, she pointed at the medication in his other hand and said," How do you always have medicine? Is this an old habit or something you started since meeting me? This was so Deja vu..."

Gabe chuckled, his eyes twinkling. "Actually," he said, nodding towards the pharmacy across the street, "I ran over there and got it when I saw Bianca spill the coffee on you and you jumped back. Thought you might need it."

Autumn grimaced at that. So he had seen it... And then she narrowed her eyes, cocked her head and questioned him," If you saw me getting hurt, shouldn’t you have ridden in like a knight in shining armor and rescued me? Or maybe a CEO who needs to save his lover..."

Uh oh! Autumn realized that she was not his lover. Why did she have to go ahead and speak too much? She felt him looking at her and cursed herself some more. Come on, Autumn. Think up! You have to do something... The tension was rising in the room. As she looked for a topic in her head, which felt empty at the moment, Gabe started the car and murmured with amusement," Why would I do something so useless, when you had everything under control? As you proved when I returned and saw you pulling off that tit-for-tat move. And from what I saw, Bianca is going to need more of that ointment."

Autumn felt a warmth spread through her chest at Gabe’s words. His confidence in her and the lack of judgment for her actions touched her in a way nothing could. Gabe Frost was too perfect a man. He was a hero without needing to prove it.

"Thank you, Gabe. For not judging me," she said softly.

Gabe glanced at her, his expression softening. "Why would I judge you? You did what you had to do. Bianca needed to be put in her place, and you did it. In fact, I am proud of you, Autumn Frost."

Autumn’s eyes widened at this. Did he call her Frost? She had not taken on his name officially but getting rid of that name Savoy was like a dream come true. Even if they were in a fake marriage, they were legally married. She could take on his name. Suddenly, Autumn felt even more energized. She would definitely take on his surname...

As she was lost in thought, Gabe had already started to drive towards their next destination. He chanced a look at her and cleared his throat. He had yet to reveal the things that Demetri had told him...

"Autumn... there is something you should know..."

Autumn turned to him then. There was something in his voice that warned her about this conversation. Instead of the quip about how there were many things she needed to know, she decided to remain quiet and wait for him to continue.

"Demetri actually came here with some news...Its about Gregory Savoy..." And then, he went quiet.

She gulped. "What is it? Just tell me."

Gabe sighed and clenched his hands on the steering wheel, and spoke," Gregory Savoy has been investigating me... He’s been using his connections within the police to get to know about me."

"I see." Autumn murmured but still wasn’t sure what this meant. Other than the fact that he was probably angry about his invasion of privacy. But why did he look worried?

Gabe sighed..." I know you don’t understand the implications.. Autumn, you have only one enemy, That rat. But I... I have more than one enemy. And if they were to discover my connection to you, then they would be more than happy to hurt you to get to me."

"Oh." Autumn murmured, having no idea what to say. Actually, she did know what she wanted to say but wasn’t sure if she should say it. So she gulped and asked him," Would they try to hurt Arabelle?"

Gabe’s face tightened at that. " I won’t let anyone hurt the either of you. For now, my brothers are blocking and misdirecting all the information. But I want you to know things about my past... There are things that might hurt you... About my wife Ar..."

"I don’t care about your past. And didn’t you just say that I can handles things myself. So, if anyone from your enemies tries to get to you by using me, then I’ll show them I’m not so easy to use. In fact, I might just burn them!"

Gabe looked at Autumn in surprise. She had such a determined and fierce look on her face. She looked as cute as a little cub...

"What? You think I cannot do it?" Autumn asked with a huff. She was going to fight his demons with him, just like he was doing hers!

"I know you can do it, my little tigress! Sheath your claws!"

While Autumn was satisfied with his answer, Gabe murmured to himself," I just hope you don’t ever have to face them."

"What did you say?" Autumn asked when she saw him mumble something but he shook his head,"Nothing ma’am. And if I’m not mistaken, we are now at our destination..."

Autumn was about to argue with him when she realized they were indeed at the place where she had stowed Mrs Jenkins’ things...