Chapter Seven
Gabriel
“What?” Diego asked.
He leaned against the plane, crossing his arms over his bulky chest and lasering me with his way-too-perceptive gaze.
“I told her I loved her,” I said, practically itching all over with the discomfort at saying that word out loud. It had come easy when I said it to Nora, but it made me feel a little crazy with anyone else. All of my friends knew I’d never planned to get serious with anyone.
Diego pinched the bridge of his nose as his head dipped down, and he let out a sigh. “And then what?” His eyes lifted to mine again.
I closed the small storage compartment underneath the plane and turned the latch to lock it before straightening. “I told her I wanted us to try again, or something like that,” I mumbled.
Diego regarded me with that quiet i
