Contracted To My Billionaire Ex's Brother

Chapter 1

GABRIELLA

"You are mine.."

The sound of Alexander William's voice was definitely grating on my eardrums as I stood there in shock, taking in the scene before me.

I wasn't sure if I was dreaming, or if my now ex-boyfriend just said what I thought he said to me.

"You are mine, Gabriella. You can't leave me..." Was he mad?

I blinked, once, then twice, looking straight at him to be sure that he was still standing there in all his naked glory, and saying those words.

When I had woken up this morning, and decided to pay my boyfriend a surprise visit, even going as far as to stop at his favorite cafe to get him his morning caffeine and some doughnuts, the last thing I had expected, was to find him stark naked, and playing bedroom games with my own best friend.

A best friend who had remained in the room while Alexander had all but dragged me out, trying to explain what I had seen.

The tears were not forthcoming, but I could feel the burning sensation behind my eyes as I faced Alexander.

I should have run away.

I should have hightailed it out of the house the moment I had seen those clothes laying on the floor just outside his bedroom.

I should have run away the moment I had heard her laugh from behind the large heavy door.

I should have run away the moment I had heard her ask him when he was going to break up with me so they could finally be together.

But I hadn't.

I had stayed there, and listened as he ignored the question, and instead, started to kiss her. That was when my phone rang, alerting them to my presence.

Alex hadn't wasted any time, before pulling open the door and whisking me out of the room, while my best friend scrambled around to get her body covered.

"Let me go..." I whispered, pulling my arm away from him, and rolling my eyes when he didn't let go.

It hurt.

It hurt so much.

It hurt so much that the hand, which would have felt like the best thing ever the previous day, now felt like I was being hooked by a cactus plant.

"Gabriella, what you just saw in there, I swear I can explain. But please....don't leave like this. I love you." There was a look in his eyes that resembled the Alex I knew and loved, as he spoke, but there was no cancelling out what I jad just seen.

I blinked again at him. "Let me go...Alex." I forced my hand away from him, and this time, he let go.

My eyes raked down his body unwilling, and I hissed, dumping the food which I had still managed to hold after all this while, on the ground and watched as the coffee spilled to the ground.

"Three years. Three years, and all this time, you were sleeping with my best friend! What explanation do you want to give, Alex!" I screamed, waving my hands in the air.

Just then, something flashed at my eyes, and I paused, eyes on my middle finger as the beautiful diamond ring he had given to me on the day of our engagement winked at me.

I heaved, bringing the hand closer to my face just for a nano second, before pulling off the ring from my finger and tossing it in his face.

Alexander's expression becamd thunderous. "Gabriella, you can't be serious. I swear she means nothing to me. What you saw in there was just_" Alex tried to explain, stepping closer to me, but I took a step back.

"Whatever it was, I want no part in it, you can continue with your meaningless relationship. You and I, are over!" The words felt like sand in my mouth, but I could care less as I just rattled out whatever came to my head at the moment.

"No! You will listen to me!" Alexander bellowed, causing me to grow completely still and weary as I looked into his expressionless face.

He stepped closer, coming just a few inches away from me. So close I could feel the warmth from his body.

A few hours ago, I would have welcomed the feeling, but right now, all I could think of, was the image of him lying in bed, naked, with my best friend.

"You seem to have forgotten that the relationship between you and me, is fake." He shook his head. "Well, it used to be, up until a year ago." I just stared back at him, matching his expressionless face. A part of me wondered if Casey was listening inside. "Yes, we make have grown close, but there are things that happen and cannot be avoided, mi amor..." A shadow crossed his face for a moment, but was gone before I could even make anything of it. "I and Casey_"

I snapped then. "Enough! I don't want to hear it, Alex." I raised my hand in defeat, and took several steps back.. "Just let things be. Go back in there, to her." Those words were painful to say.

The last person in the world whom I would have expected to have hurt me, had done so, and had hit me in the place where it hurt the most.

Just as I turned to leave, after giving Alex a warning glare to stay away from me, the door to the bedroom opened.

I didn't have to look back to know who it was. Squaring my shoulders and trying to lift my legs which had somehow become like jelly, I continued walking. But they didn't even let me leave before sweeping the ground from underneath my feet. Literally.

"Babe, did you tell her? Remember we are having a baby.." Casey murmured in the sweet voice I had always liked but teased her about in the fourteen years we had know each other.

I stilled in my steps, willing myself to move, but finding out in the cruellest way, that my feet had suddenly stopped working.

"Casey, please go back inside. I don't want you stressing yourself and the baby." Alexander's voice, as gentle as ever, followed. I knew that voice. I knew just about every tone he had. I thought I knew him the same way.

"But babe..." Casey continued, but for some reason, trailed off.

"Just go back inside...thanks." Alexander replied, followed by the sound of receding footsteps, and the the door being shut.

I let out a breath then that I didn't know I had been keeping inside of me.

My chest constricted tightly, and painfully, almost to the point that I thought I was going to die.

They were having a baby...

Just how long had they been together and planned all of this behind my back?

And how on earth did Alex come to the conclusion that I was a fool and kept saying she didn't mean anything to him, when she was right there in the next room, pregnant with his child!

Oh, Gabriella, you have really done it this time!

Three years!

My best friend and fiance...well fake fiance, were having a baby together!

I lifted my hand to my chest, feeling my heart continue to squeeze painfully, and trying effortlessly to massage the paying away.

But I was getting weak. Too weak infact, that my knees almost buckled.

"Gabriella..." He was still there?

I thought he had left..

I said nothing, trying to control my kees and chest, so I could run.

"Gabby, please..." I heard him walk towards me, even opened my mouth to tell him to stay away, but the words never made it out of my mouth as the floors seem to get closer to my face by the second, and it took me exactly one second before I hit the ground, to realize what was happening to me.

"Gabriella!" That was the last thing I heard, before darkness took over and I was sucked into the abyss of what I could only describe as a welcomed peace.