Destined

Chapter 17: How To Ruin A Date, part 2

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~Just remember that this is a cute story, with just a tiny bit of drama to keep it interesting. There is no big plot or anything, like in my other stories. Just something light to read, without thinking much, haha

Love, Mina💚💚💚

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Chapter 17: How To Ruin A Date, part 2 (1,0K)

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"Shit! Shit! Shit!" Clary said, slumping in the sofa until she hit the floor. Jace raised an interrogating eyebrow at her, but Clary just shook her head to him, her face revealing that, whoever was behind the door wasn't someone she would like to see now. She paused the movie and, after saying to Jace to stay in the living room, Clary went to open the door to her father.

"Dad! I was Star Wars-ing!" She whined as her father appeared on her frame. His brown eyes lit up like a child, and he repeated:

"Star Wars?"

The saga was a passion that the whole family shared, one of the only things that bound them together and always brought peace when there was a tantrum among them. Clary heaved, not letting her father in as she kept on complaining:

"Yes! And you just interrupted Darth Vader and his big reveal!"

"Oh," Valentine apologetically said. He grimaced a little, and Clary decided that she guilted him enough, so she asked,

"So? Who's dead?"

At those words, Valentine seemed to remember what he came here for, and he shot daggers with his eyes at his daughter, all the while taking his most menacing posture as he angrily said:

"You!"

"What did I do?" Clary loudly complained, her eyes wide like saucers. It was a secret to no one that she had always been a perfect daughter. At least to her father's eyes. So what could she have possibly done for him to be this angry at her?

"Can we go inside? I, for one, would like to not kill my only daughter on her front door," Valentine stated as he tried to enter. Clary made an unconscious move to stop him and he rose an eyebrow at her as she stuttered:

"But ... but ... but..."

Valentine narrowed his eyes to his daughter and then he stormed in her apartment, Clary hot on his heels. He went directly to her bedroom but stopped when he saw the light of the TV from the living room. He swiftly glanced at Clary, before he entered with anger in the room.

He froze on the spot when he saw Jace getting up from the sofa, and Clary grimaced behind her father. She loved her father above everything, but he could be very overbearing sometimes. He did make Sebastian go through Hell before accepting him, and he knew and liked Sebastian before they started dating.

"You!" Valentine growled pointing Jace with his finger. "Get the Hell out of here before I lose my temper on your face!"

"Wow, Dad! You cannot throw people out of my apartment!" Clary intervened, placing herself between her father and Jace to make him stop glaring, even though she was too small to interfere in his vision. Her father barely seemed to acknowledge her as he kept on shooting daggers above her head to Jace and he angrily said:

"Why are you still here?"

"Wow! What did he do?" Clary questioned. The anger that she was seeing in her father was slightly scaring her because no matter what, he had always been in control of himself. The way he was looking at Jace was nothing like the way he looked at Sebastian, and Clary had the feeling that she was missing crucial information there.

"He turned my daughter into his mistress!" Valentine accused his finger back in pointing Jace while he was looking at his daughter with care and concern.

Clary blinked a little, wondering how her father knew about Jace marital status. And then a bigger question came to her: how did he know about Jace, to begin with? She didn't tell him anything about seeing anyone, and she didn't say anything to her Mom. The only person that knew about them was...

"Jon and his big fat mouth! I'm going to kill him!" She declared, her eyes darkening at the thought of burning her brother at the stick.

Her father glared over her shoulder once again, and Clary took Jace's defence: "Well, I'm sure that your idiotic stupid son didn't tell you that Jace is getting a divorce."

Valentine stared at his daughter with big goggling eyes, disbelief gleaming in them. Then he gently took her by the shoulders as he said, as if he was talking to someone particularly slow: "Don't tell me you believe this. You should know better than anyone how much of a lie it is. He's not someone you should be around, sweetie."

"Mister Morgen_" Jace started, but Valentine cut him off, his voice filled with poison:

"Don't talk to me! You should be out of this apartment by now!"

"Dad! I invited Jace over here, not you!" Clary strongly said, shocking her father by her angry tone. "He's my guest here, so I'd be grateful if you wouldn't insult him by assuming things that aren't just because Jon has a big mouth that ain't big enough to say everything."

"But Clary..." Valentine helplessly said, glaring once again over Jace. Clary raised her hand to her father in order to stop him, and then she played with her best puppy face:

"You owe it to me, Dad. You cut me down during Star Wars!" Clary pointed out, and she held his gaze until he finally heaved of defeat, his eyes gleaming of an expression Clary didn't like. "No, Dad. I'm not choosing him over you, I'm just saying your overreacting."

Valentine curtly nodded and turned on his heels to leave her apartment. Clary stared at the blank space that her father just left, and she heaved, knowing that he wouldn't drop the issue. Then, she turned to Jace who was wearing an unreadable mask and she gave him an apologetic smile,

"I guess I'm a magnet to date-ruiners."

"I guess I should go," Jace simply replied, already putting his jacket on. Clary tried to make him stay, afraid that Jace was making a bigger deal out of this than he should,

"Why? We haven't finish—"

"Because you want to go after your father," Jace cut her off. Clary sheepishly smiled and Jace swiftly kissed her on the forehead before leaving.

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