Retaliation✓ (Completed)

♦twenty three♦

Sophia was very happy the moment the plane touched down at JFK. Harold was waiting for her and she was happy that her sister was back home with her. "Umm, Sophia. Can I talk to you?" Rowan asked sheepishly while rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly.

Sophia reluctantly agreed and he lead her to a secluded corner. "I...I wanted to know if...if you would want to go out sometime. You know that's if you want to. Not forcing you or anything. I have no bad intentions. I promise." He rushed.

She nearly laughed out with the way Rowan was acting. He was looking anywhere and everywhere but her.

Rowan's heart was beating wildly. It had been three minutes and she hadn't yet given him an answer. He looked up and their eyes locked. It was as if time had stopped and only the both of them existed.

A throat was cleared and he cursed. He wanted to wring their intruder's neck. "Son, we have to go. Your mother is waiting." He wanted to lash out at his father. Of all times. He was very annoyed. "Go ahead. I'll call you." Sophia said and he smiled. "Take care." "You too."

He watched as Sophia's car drove out of the gates till it was no longer in sight. "Tell her you love her already." Hugo told his son. "We all see how you look at her. She's a very sweet girl. I talked to her at the hospital. Your mom can't wait to meet her." He continued.

"Can you and mom just not get involved right now. Let fate take its course. I just wonder if she feels the same for me. Judging with how closed off she is, I don't think so." Rowan rubbed his face in frustration.

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Sophia was lounging on the couch with Anna and Rachel. "Tell me this Phia, do you love my brother?" Rachel asked and Sophia shifted uncomfortably on her seat. She pretended to be very focused on the television.

"I already paused the show so I don't know what you are staring at." "I don't know what you are talking about and I need to go to the office." "It's Sunday you freak. Unless you want to be like my brother who's drowning himself in work cause he thinks you don't want to have anything to do with him."

Anna sat quietly on the couch and observed Sophia. She had a feeling that she had feelings Rowan but didn't want to accept them.

"Or maybe you are a coward. You think feelings make you weak. Rowan is madly in love with you. You said you'll call him and it has been days since you did. He's always looking at his phone hoping that you'll come by. You're heartless." Rachel knew she had hit a nerve. She just wanted Sophia to admit her feelings for her brother.

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Rowan sat in his penthouse looking at Sophia's picture. He had hoped that Sophia would come around but she didn't. Maybe she wanted Damian. Who knows maybe guys like him were her type. The ones who out rightly flirted with anyone and everyone. He wished she still stayed in her penthouse. It would have been easier to talk things through.

'Ding Dong.' "Who could that be now?" He sure as hell wasn't expecting any visitors. He hoped it wasn't his annoying neighbor who always gave an excuse to see him. "I don't have salt if that's what you want!" He snapped without seeing who was at the door first.

"Hey." He quickly whipped his head to see who it was. That voice he could recognise from anywhere. He couldn't believe his eyes. It had been ages since he last saw her. "Come in."

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