Destined

Chapter 18: Discussions On The Couch

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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 18: Discussions On The Couch (1,0K)

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Jace slumped on the couch of what used to be his house for three years, and he rested his head on the back, closing his eyes in a vain attempt to rest. He did have an apartment of his own, but right now he needed to talk his best friend even though she seemed to be out. Jace grimaced as he tried not to think of the awful morning he had, and he rose his head when he heard voices coming from the corridor.

Aline walked in the living-room with shock and she stared in disbelief at Jace before she asked, "What are you doing here, Jace?"

"I still live here. At least on the papers."

Aline smiled as she walked through the living room to sit in a sofa in front of Jace. "I meant, aren't you supposed to be on a date with Clary? It's all you've been talking about for the past few days."

Jace darkly chuckled and rested back his head on the headrest as he closed again his eyes and informed his best friend, "I was. Then her father showed up."

"You met Valentine?" Sebastian's voice asked, and Jace opened one eye to see him entering the living room and going to sit next to his cousin. Then Jace closed back his eye as he grumbled,

"I didn't meet anyone. To meet someone, the other person has to acknowledge you as a human being."

"Yeah, Valentine is very protective of Clary. When we started going out, he refused to talk to me for three months, and we knew each other from before. The worst months of my life," Sebastian admitted with a shudder in his voice.

Jace refrained himself from rolling his eyes and kept on stubbornly staying in the position he was in. He came here to talk to Aline, and now he had to hear all about Sebastian and Clary's past love life. Which Jace was quite happy with not knowing.

"What did you do Jace?" Aline accused and Jace snapped his head to stare at her. Why did she always assume the worst of him? He wasn't that bad of a person.

"Why do you think I did something? I was actually being the gentleman you told me to be. I didn't do anything to her of all the things I wanted to do, and I still end up as the bad guy in the story."

"You have to have done something for her father to ignore you."

"He didn't ignore me, he glared at me as if I was some disgusting cockroach on his shoe," Jace spat before he turned to Sebastian and accused: "Actually, it's all your fault! If you had divorced us already, Clary's father wouldn't think that I'm corrupting his daughter!"

"Oh..." Aline said as she understood what happened, and she gently smiled to Jace with comfort as Jace kept on glaring at Sebastian. If Sebastian didn't drag this divorce forever, Jace would have never found himself in this situation, and he would have met Clary's parents in a more appropriate way, at a more appropriate time.

"It's actually your fault. If you guys hadn't signed up a contract without reading, you would have been separated already. Even before leaving the island," Sebastian pointed out, and Jace growled, not wanting Sebastian to get all lawyer over him. He knew that the fact that he started his company while he was married to Aline was one of the major problems, but right now, he didn't care. He just cared about how Clary's father had the wrong idea about him when he was doing such efforts to be more worthy of her.

"It's okay, Jace. You'll just have to explain to him_"

"You don't explain to Valentine Morgenstern. You show. He's a lawyer, he doesn't trust words, only facts," Sebastian cut Aline and Jace got up, in an urge to leave.

It was pissing him off that Sebastian seemed to know Valentine so well and that he was talking about him as if they were friends. Aline did tell him that Sebastian was pretty close to the Morgenstern family. Jace started walking out of the room when a thought startled him:

"Sebastian?" He asked, waiting for Sebastian to give him his attention. "Who's Eric?"

Sebastian blinked a little, and Jace noticed that his eyes gleamed of worry at the mention of that name. "How do you know Eric?"

"He came by her place last week."

"He came?!" Sebastian cried out as he got up and looked in his pocket for his phone. Jace frowned even more and walked back to Sebastian, placing himself right before him as he repeated himself:

"Who's Eric?"

"He's a nut-job who's not allowed to be 100 feet near her," Sebastian vaguely said as he opened his phone and started pressing the buttons to call someone. Jace closed Sebastian's phone with an imperative hand and asked for more information, not liking the worry clear on Sebastian's face:

"Why?"

"Didn't you hear me when I said that he's a nutcase? He's actually the case that made me meet her."

"What did he do?" Jace demanded, not sure that he wanted to hear the answer, but sure in the meantime that he wanted to know. Sebastian backed away, his eyes steady on Jace as he said:

"I'm not telling you that. Besides breaking the confidentiality between a lawyer and his client, I won't shatter Clary's trust like that. If she wants to tell you, she'll tell you."

Jace glanced at Aline, and she softly shook his head to tell him to let it go. In one look, he told her that they needed to talk, and when she silently agreed, Jace left, pretending that he had stuff to do.

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~ Anyway, question time:

💚So what did you think of Jace trying to be a gentleman, and of this little insight inot Eric?

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Anyway, Cassandra Clare owns the names of the characters from the Mortal Instruments franchise, everything else is mine.

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