He went up stairs with gabby who had literally fallen asleep in his arms. He carried her to her room, tucked her into bed and left.
In his own room after a few hours he got a text from Xavier
Xavier: we have a problem
Xander: handle it
Xavier: no it's about Gabriella
Xander couldn't even text him back before he heard a bone chilling scream from gabby's room which was right next to his so he heard it very clearly, Xander literally flew out of his bed and rushed to her room, when he got there he so her on the floor at the foot of her bed "Gabriella what happened" he asked worriedly looking at her, as soon as she saw it was him she immediately hugged him and she was shaking like a blender, Xander was stunned at first but he immediately started stroking her hair and back to calm her down "please don't let them kill me, I won't do anything wrong in my life and the next life again please just don't let them kill me" she said in a terrified voice and Xander's face darkened, he knew what he had to do but first he had to calm gabby down, he completely forgot about her sleeping problems where she could sleep for a long period of time without a form of comfort and gabby was to embarrassed to bring her comfort plushie.
Xander sighed, picked her up and laid her on her bed but she clutched to him like a koala, he sighed and go on the bed and spooned her, hugging her closely so that she could calm down, he stroked her hair until she eventually calmed down and fell asleep when she did he brought out his phone and saw a message
Xavier: they are after her
Xander sighed softly and wanted to get up and go back to his room until he realized gabby was holding onto him for dear life and had no plans of letting go, he sighed again, for what felt like the hundredth time today and smiled then he laid back down and cuddled her as she slept.
The next morning gabby found herself in such a position and she wanted to die of embarrassment, she woke up to have her head on Xander's chest and his arms held firmly around her waist. She tried to get out of his embrace with waking him up but "do you think it's fair that I rushed over here when you screamed, comforted you, let you clutch to me as if your life depended on it cuddle you and have to listen to you snore and still not be able to sleep for a few more minutes, I'm not complaining about the cuddling part but let's just stay here a bit longer" he pulled her closer, gabby wouldn't lie to herself, there was indeed one part of her that liked being in his embrace but she still wanted him to let go "I have to use the bathroom" she said "are you lying" he asked as he narrowed his eyes "No" she said and he simply let her go "and by the way I do not snore" she said and walked into the bathroom. As soon as she entered the bathroom his smile disappeared and his face darkened, it seemed that gabby remembers everything except for the dream and he was glad he didn't want her to remember it at all, hearing the water start to run he left her room and went to his room to take a bath, he was done before her so he headed to the living hall.
When gabby was done she went downstairs to see Xander sitting in the armchair by the fireplace "Come here kitten" He said and she came, he tapped on his lap and all she could do was sit "kitten I will be going out for work today so I'll be showing you your bodyguard today but that doesn't mean I won't collect my task, I'll be home before 7pm and so will you and then I'll collect my task deal kitten?" he asked "deal but do I really need a bodyguard" she asked for Xander to look her dead in the eye "fine" Xander was over satisfied because normally when he gave people death glares they would become very scared but his little kitten wasn't afraid of him because she knew he would never kill her, he snapped his fingers for a maid to come in "call Kima for me" he said for the maid to scurry away to fulfill the task she was sent to do "can you at least let me sit on my own in front of people" she asked "no I can't so get used to it because as from now the couch will come in rare contact of your ass" he said smugly making gabby blush. A fit woman then came into the living hall, she looked like an athlete gabby thought "Gabriella this is Kima, she will be your personal bodyguard from now on, she will follow you everywhere outside the mansion when I'm not there, Kima you will protect her with your life and if anything happens to her it will cost you your own life understood?" he said simply and gabby snapped her head to look at him "yes boss nothing will happen to her under my watch" gabby then snapped her head to look at Kima "Xander is this really necessary I'll be fine on my own" gabby was pleading bit Xander wasn't having it "after what happened yesterday night I'm considering bringing you with me but that won't be possible" before gabby could respond her phone rang "speaker phone kitten" Xander said and did as he asked since it was only Gina "hey gabby" said the person on the other line "hey Gina" she replied "so me and Chloe are going to volunteer at a local orphanage today and thought you would like to come if you are not busy" gabby just looked at Xander who nodded in approval as long as she takes Kima, gabby just sighed "I'm not busy I'll be there in a few minutes" Gabby replied and ended the call