The perfect "Thief" || HEROPHINE

29. River house

ℋero's pov

I get wake up by the sound of the alarm.
I mumble annoyed by the sound and right after I lean over the nightstand to grab my phone and turn off the alarm.
I go back to hug Jo again.
The bedsheets are warm, warmed up by our bodies, her body is even warmer and I don't want to leave this bed so I stay up for five minutes big spooning her.
I think of last night we're I got to hangout with Jo's new friend group and they aren't bad at all even if I still can't stand Drew.
He likes her a lot and he doesn't even hide it.

A phone starts to ring and when I look at the nightstand Jo's phone is brighten up.

Please tell me is not that bloody Drew guy because I'm going to not react well to it especially at this time in the morning while I'm so well cuddled to her.

"Baby can you pass me the phone?" she asks with her sleepy voice.
So I take the phone take it off from the charging cable and pass it to her and while I do so I see the word "Mom" on the screen and I get so relaxed that I go back to hug her and kiss her back.
"Mum?" she asks turning and facing her pretty eyes on the ceiling.
I keep kissing her shoulder while I furrow my forehead seeing her eyes a bit preoccupied.
"Mum, wait... stop crying and tell me what's wrong, you're scaring me." she says and sitting on the bed.

Fuck. I think seeing her face expression.

"I really fucking can't with that man... alright mommy, let's do a thing, you try to stop crying, I fresh up and I call you right back. Okay?" she asks with a shaky voice while her eyes are already filled with tears ready to Dunn through her tender skin.

"I love you, I will call you in twenty. Bye" she says while I caress her back.
She hangs up and immediately burst in a silent cry covering her face with both hands.
"Oh my love. Come here." I say sitting up and pulling her to my chest.
Hiccups covers the silence between us.
"Baby tell me what happening or I'll go crazy too." I admit.
"My dad it's a horrible husband and father that's what's happening." she says disperatly while tears keeps coming down.
I whips them with my thumbs.

Fuck I hate to see her like this.
I hate it. It's just 7 in the morning and her day is already ruined.

"What he did this time?" I ask already angry with the man that I still didn't got to know but seeing her suffering this way makes me mad.
"He doesn't take care of my mom even if she don't need anything... the man should stay close to his woman, talk to her, discuss problems or even about the daily stuff, make her feel loved and take care of... he just goes to work, eat and sleep in the place as hers but never talks to her and plus he doesn't help her with the house expenses like grocery, gas bill, water bill... anything." she says in one breath and I can tell how disappointed she is about her father.
"I bought the apartment that I'm sharing with Emma and I have to pay that so I really can't do it much money wise... Fuck!" she says covering her face again.
"Baby, we can resolve it. We can help, I can help." I propose and she immediately looks at me with her icy eyes.
"Not gonna happen. I'm not with you for your money." she yells. We avoided each other for a while because I thought she was like every other girl I've dated but she really doesn't care about money.
"I know it baby you proved me this long time ago but in times of need-" I say rubbing her back "Not gonna happen." she doesn't even let me finish.
"Alright alright we can discuss it later, now, what you think we should do?" I ask and she looks at me like she just saw an alien.
"What?" I ask furrowing my eyebrows.
"We?" she asks almost like she's ready to burst in a cry again.
"Yes we." I confirm.
Her lower lip starts to team e and right after she let herself go and I catch her in a hug.
"I'm so lucky to have you baby." Josephine says and I can so much honesty in her voice almost like a confession.
"I feel like that too. You make me better." I confess thinking how lost and obsessed with work I was before meeting her.
We stay cuddled to each other for a bit and then she looks up with her eyelashes wet from her salty tears and her flushed cheeks.
"I need to see her and maybe take her out of that house for a bit." she says and right after I get the most brilliant idea.
"Then I have the perfect place ... I have house that face the Dart River, it's a 4 hours drive from here." I say and she seems to be suprised by it.
"You have another house?" She asks like stunned.
I nod.
"By the river?" she asks again.
I nod.
"When you were going to tell me that?" she asks offended by the fact that I never talked about it.
"I was going to but I was waiting for the right time." I say moving a lock of hair away from her face.
She smiles looking up at me with her red eyes.
"I don't know if I can get some days off." she says already frightened.
"I'm sure my dad will understand and give you some days off." I say knowing already that I will call him right after we get off this bed.