Strangers to Brothers 5/6
When Gabriel enters his father's office, three things become clear to him.
One, his father never really expected him be able to help Elle.
Two, he is extremely pissed about something, thought Gabriel isn't sure what.
And three, Peter is in the building.
"You did it," Arthur commented.
"What is wrong?" he asks, pretending he doesn't sense these things.
"We are having trouble with one of the experiments we are running on level six." Gabriel knows that this is only part of the truth and that his father is, once again, hiding something.
At that moment, the phone on his desk begins to ring. He takes three large strides across the room to answer it.
Gabriel walks toward the window as his father caries on a short conversation with the woman on the other line. He can hear each word she says with perfect clarity, as though she is standing in the room next to him, but he pretends not to hear a word.
"I have to go take care of something," Arthur informs him. "Stay here."
Gabriel nods and waits several moments, until he knows his father has entered the elevator, before exiting the room.
He never was good at following orders.