Even Better Together

chapter twenty two

Hunter

I can't fucking wait to get home to meet Sophia later.

I text her to come home for 5pm, I need to explain what she saw last night was a huge fucking misunderstanding.

She called me a liar, but I haven't lied about anything, I might have not been doing paperwork for the club all the time, but I was working.

I don't know how I got myself in that situation last night, one minute I'm buried in my laptop finalising some papers and the next Lucy is sat on my desk trying to kiss me. I was that zoned out I didn't even hear her come in.

I'm furious at the situation, the hurt that Sophia was feeling in that moment made my heart break.

I know what Sophia thinks, that I've cheated on her with Lucy, when it was honestly just shit timing that she walked in when Lucy was trying to kiss me, that's what she said to Jack when she bolted out of the club anyway, that I'm a liar and a cheat.

Jack gave me a fucking ear full when he stormed into my office, seeing where Sophia had come from, to find me yelling at Lucy and he knew what had gone down. He knows I would never do that to Sophia.

He nearly punched me for letting her get away and for me not going straight after her, but all I was thinking about was firing that fucking woman so she isn't at my club no more, or interferring in my relationship.

I fucking love Sophia.

I know I cancelled on our date nights this week, but I genuinely was stuck in the middle of something. I was going to surprise her next week but now fuck knows what is going to happen.

I need to see her beautiful face, I've fucking missed her this week, but always in the back of my mind I was thinking that I'm doing this for us, I'll make it up to her, that she will know how much she means to me if I could just get through all this fucking work this week.

I knew I'd hurt her when she didn't sleep in my bed with me a few night's ago, and honestly I was that tired I just fell onto my bed and slept that night, hoping to see Sophia the next morning but then I promised Brent and Jack a gym session and Sophia was setting off to work.

I enter the lobby, pulling my fingers through my hair, I have a pounding headache from all of this, I just need to have her back in my arms.

I spot Eric out of the corner of my eye trying to run over to me but I just hop into the lift and close the doors quickly, I know it may seem rude but I just don't want to speak to anyone right now.

Only Sophia.

I enter the penthouse and look around for her.

"Sophia?!"

"Soph?"

I head towards the bedroom and my eye catches the wardrobes in the opposite room, my heart fucking drops to my stomach. I step in to take a closer look.

Her wardrobe is fucking empty.

I grip my hair with my hands and sink to the floor.

I've lost her.

She's gone.

I stand quickly to asess the other rooms and I'm right, she's took all her things and left me.

I pull my phone out to call her, I can feel my heart pounding in my chest, pressing her contact. I let it ring for longer than normal but she never picks up.

No texts, nothing.

It's like she never fucking existed.

I don't know what to do, where will she have gone? I have no idea, just hopefully not back to her parents house in Manchester.