'I know I can treat you better, than he can
And any girl like you deserves a gentleman'
A girl with demons. A boy with a bad reputation. A boy soon to be corrupted.
Ivy is a girl who finds the devil at every doorstep. Demons surround her but what w...
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It had been three days and both father and daughter were getting on well. They made up for the months that they'd been separated, every bad memory forgotten to the past. Ivy began to have thoughts about staying with her father permanently, it was possible and it would stop the girl from doing any jobs that would get her hands dirtier than they were already.
It was time for Ivy to make her decision.
Ivy wasn't ready for drastic change, not yet. She wanted to stay with the Shelbys, mainly because of Finn. Michael too. But, she wanted to see her father more often, a lot more often. It was decided that she'd continue to live with Polly but have weekly visits with her father. And when working with Tommo, she would not allow him to push her around like he had in the past. It appeared to be a deal no one could dispute with.
The Solomons' had a meeting with Tommy Shelby himself that day, however, to discuss the business with the Russians; and so Ivy could report back to Tom what she had learnt. The girl had told her father the real reason why she was back with him, it was a part of Tommo's plan. Alfie and Ivy had agreed that she would tell Tom a few things but no where near the amount of information that he would be expecting. She didn't want to betray either of them, she wanted to be loyal to both, as hard as that seemed.
"Are you going to tell me about this...Finn you seem so fond of?" Alfie quizzed Ivy as they entered the last lengths of their journey to Tommy's house. "He's just a friend, father." The girl said, although she knew he was much more than that to her. She had come to terms with the fact that she was in love with the boy, at least she thought she was. The way she felt about him, it was unlike anything she'd ever felt before so she thought it had to love, surely. "You're a shit liar." Her father chuckled as he kept his eyes on the road ahead of him. "I am not," Ivy tried to defend herself but she knew it was true if you learned to look for the signs; fidgeting and no eye-contact.
"Fine, we're close," Alfie's eyebrow rose in curiosity. "Leave me alone, I might actually have a good relationship with someone." Ivy joked with the man. "But he's a Shelby." Alfie seethed, although they were business partners, he still struggled to trust the family, let alone allow his daughter to date one of them. "Yes, father, he's a Shelby, but he's not like any of them. He's kind, he doesn't have a single bad bone in his body, as far as I've seen anyway. Please, just don't let your distrust of the Shelbys come between us." Alfie took a deep sigh at his daughter's words, thoughts raging through his mind,"You love him?"
"I think so, I don't know." Ivy confessed but Alfie made no reply. The rest of the journey was quick and silent; her father's true feelings unknown to the girl. The pair pulled up to the house, clouds raged over it and rain threatened to drench the building. Ivy jumped out of the car before her father, Tommo had asked to speak to her first without Alfie there. "Ivy, it's good to see you." Tommo said as he led her into his office after welcoming her through the door. "You too, I suppose." Her last words were muttered. "What do you have for me?" His eyes burnt through her, a mix of ice and fire. He lighted and lifted a cigarette up to his lips as he sat down in his large leather chair. The girl told him about her father, but only what her and Alfie had agreed to tell him. "Is that everything?" Tommo questioned once Ivy had finished talking. She nodded, "He was cautious with me."
