Primrose Path (A Harry Wells x Reader Insert)

Chapter 4

Smile still a permanent feature on your face, you head out from your apartment the next morning, your mind filled with a mixture of thoughts, ranging from flowers to the ever-present Harrison. No one had been able to make you this happy in a long time, you think as you approach Primrose Path, maybe ever.

You stick the key in the lock to unlock your shop door just as a voice calls out to you.

"Hey, Miss, paper for you," a young man addresses you, reaching into his bag and pulling out a copy of Central City Picture News. "Oh, yours is a familiar face," he says, eyebrows going up in surprise when you properly turn to face him in order to take the paper.

"Have we met?" you ask in confusion, as the man holds out your newspaper, front page up so that you can see the main article. What you see makes you gasp, your eyes wide as it scans every inch of the paper.

"Nah, I've been handing out these all morning - that's you, right?"

You don't stop staring at the page in front of you even as you open your door and make your way inside the shop, laying it down on the counter so that you can properly read it.

The headline, bold and striking reads:

GENIUS CEO SPOTTED WITH MYSTERY WOMAN ON ROMANTIC RENDEZVOUS

The title is accompanied by several pictures from last night, the largest one of you walking hand in hand with Harry after he'd given you his jacket, just before you'd spotted this photographer.

Admittedly, it was a gorgeous shot; you and Harry both looking at each other affectionately, a delicate feeling of intimacy with it, but you feel you could have appreciated it more if it wasn't on the breakfast table of everyone in the city right now.

You hastily scan the other, smaller images. One of the pair of you laughing by the lake and another of the kiss. Your romantic kiss with this incredible man wasn't the private affair you'd thought.

Resting your elbows on the countertop, you begin reading the article which details Harry's pretty much non-existent love life before you, thoughts on who you could be and how long you'd been together.

But before you can get too far through it, your phone buzzes multiple times in quick succession in your pocket and you pull it out, seeing an increasing collection of frantic texts from Harry.

(Y/N), please tell me you haven't seen CCPN.

I should have realized this would happen

when you mentioned the photographer.

I'm sorry this is happening.

Are you at the shop yet?

Screw it, I'm coming over.

You barely have enough time to type out a response and don't even hit send, before the door to the shop bursts open, revealing an agitated looking Harry.

"Stay here!" he shouts over his shoulder, in a very different tone to what he uses around you, and you peer out of the window and see Matthew and two other guys stop in their tracks, blocking the shop door. Harry flicks the latch on the door before striding over to you.

"Is this what happens when you get your picture in the paper? A sudden entourage?" you joke as he reaches you. You watch as he peers down at the tabloid in front of you, sucking in a deep breath.