Until I Found Him (Book 1) || SHERLIAM || Reincarnation AU || BXB

Chapter 14: "Happy Valentine's Day, Mr Holmes"

I feel bad for writing angst on valentine's day, so anyway, here's a sweet sherliam chapter
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Louis sighed at the countless couples who had came into his cafe, ordered each other's favourite drink and desserts and is now being sweet with each other. Now, usually Louis doesn't mind this because it is not his business and more over today is Valentine's Day but because of what just happened yesterday with William, he couldn't help but feel bad and most importantly, he hated himself for trusting Sherlock. Sherlock hurt his brother and now he won't forgive him.

Despite this, William insists on coming to the Café with Louis like every valentine's days. On February 14th every year, William always came to help out at the cafe as he said he loves watching happy couples and their smiles when their significant others did something sweet to him.

Right now William is in the back, making himself some coffee, leaving Louis at the counter and that's when a familiar detective walks in.

Louis' eyes darted out at the door and he furrowed his eyebrows,

"What are you doing here?" Louis scoffed as Sherlock glanced behind him and sighed as he walked towards Louis.

"Louis, listen, it's not what it looks like. The engagement is what I meant—"

"Yeah yeah, I know. It's all over the news. You're getting married to the Ashford in a week"

Sherlock huffed as he placed his hands on the counter.

"Louis, you have to think more logically! Did you think I ,who loves your brother more than my life and would die for him, agree to an engagement just like that?"

Louis thought for a bit as he sighed. "Why did you agree to the engagement"

"I've been blackmailed into the marriage, Louis"

"What?" Louis uttered in disbelief. "By who?!"

"Milverton" Louis widened his eyes as he felt his blood boiled. Milverton, the man who threatened to reveal his brother identity now threatened Sherlock into a marriage?

Sherlock looked around as he nodded. "I need you to continue being angry at me, at least to just convince someone from an outside perspective to believe that I am here to end thing off with your brother, I believe I am being spied on right now"

Louis nodded as he put on his best angry expression and went as far doing some angry gestures at Sherlock to make it more convincing, "yes, that's good. Anyway, Milverton blackmail me with a so called information that could put the whole Moriarty family to jail, I am going to try my best to get to the bottom of it and destroy the evidence. Then I can call off the engagement and I can explain everything to your brother but you can't say anything about this to Liam, you can tell Albert but not Liam, I knew he is already stressed with other things—"

Just as William could sense his name has been mentioned, he came back from the back and walked towards the counter.

"Louis how's it going-" William gasped as he accidentally dropped his coffee. William stared at Sherlock as Sherlock also stared at William in shock. "Mr Holmes" William voice break as he whispered Sherlock's last name.

Oh how Sherlock wished he could wiped away that expression from his face. Sherlock hated how his last name sounded right now, especially when it is being spoken so sadly. Sherlock wasn't intended on meeting William, he only needs to talk to Louis but now, seeing William here, he sense that he would want to talk about it with the detective.

"Can I talk to you?" Sherlock sighed as he nodded.
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"Why?" William asked Sherlock sadly. The pair are now outside, somewhere quiet. Sherlock sighed as he cursed. He wanted to reached out his hands and hold William tight in an embrace more than anything but he is pretty sure that Milverton's men are following him.