The Shade's Of You. | ✓

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Sophia.

“You're wearing the necklace I got you.” He obverses from across the kitchen nook and I nod my head, looking downwards. “It looks beautiful on you. I knew it would.” He murmurs and I blush, mumbling out a small thank you.

My fingers softly pull at the pretty chain and I smile to myself before looking back up to his tall figure.

We stay silent, staring at each other for a long while, the only sounds that could be heard is coming from the coffee maker and maybe our heavy breathing but other than that, it's silent between us, both unsure on what to say or do.

The coffee timer goes off making us snap out of our sad, pitiful and pleading staring contest, thankfully. I breath out in relief as I watch him turn his back to me— quickly working on pouring us both a much needed up of caffeine.

I am never drinking again.

Thank the lord for that long drive,

I got to have some sleep because of it.

“Thank you.” I say and wrap my hands around the black mug, allowing its heat to warm me up and it does exactly that, slowly but still it works either way. “Is this another secret apartment, too?” I ask, finally breaking the silence.

He smiles at me and my heart flutters, “Yeah.”

I nod my head and force my eyes to move away from the tattooed man, to around the small and cute apartment.

“I like it more compared to your fancy one. Does, Luca live here too?” I question and he frowns, shaking his head no. “I saw his busted up face by the way.” I add.

I remember his bruised face.

His cut lip and black eye.

I wanted to yell at Percy, violence is not the key.

His expression hardens, “You shouldn't feel sorry for him, Sophia. He caused you pain that I promised to keep you from. He did something that I warned— threatened him not to do, he did it and hurt you. I fucked him up a little, so what? That's nothing compared to what his put you through, at least his is healing.” He growls in anger.

“Yes. I agree, it was fucked up— the whole revenge thing but I swear to you that when I had figured out that you were his daughter, I called it off. I didn't want to put you in that situation, especially, not after everything you've been through already. I never wish to hurt you.”

I gulp and look away from his hard stare. “I'm not angry, anymore, at him. . . or you. I'm just, I'm embarrassed at how everything went down.” I state, chewing my lip.

“I wouldn't blame you if you were.”

“I'm not though.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes.”

Percy shrugs his wide shoulders and leans back against the kitchen counter while his hand moves upwards, successfully connecting the black mug to his lips.

I watch him in silence, a small smile falls upon my own lips and when our eyes meet, he frowns and raises a questioning eyebrow up, a silent what? flies between us.

I pull my bottom lip between my teeth, scolding myself not to say anything but obviously my body has other thoughts and disobeys me. “I missed your lips on mine, that's all.” I blurt and my eyes widen and he chokes on his coffee.

“I— I, shouldn't have said that. I'm sorry.” I mumble.

My eyebrows scrunch together and I frown at the old wooden table, nook, below me while his quiet coughs resonates around us. “I'm sorry.” I chirp once more.

A deep sigh leaves my parted mouth and I finally look up at him after a long, extremely long pause of silence between us, there seems to be alot of those between us recently and I don't like it, at all. I want to tell him that but what's the use really? It wouldn't provide us with anything.

“I wanted to see you because I. . . I'm leaving tomorrow and—” I pause to inhale deeply and his green orbs tell me not say my next words, they silently beg me not to.

I stare at him, confused.

Why was he looking at me like that?

Like I came to rip him apart?

I would never, he should know that by now.

“I wouldn't come to, America, if that's what you're so concerned about.” He mutters when I open my mouth to continue and I flinch. “I understand you don't want anything to do with me from here on out, there was no need for all this drama, Sophia.” He finishes, glaring at me.

I gasp and glare back, “Drama? What drama are you talking about?” I hiss and go to stand from my seat.

I deliberately ignore his words about never wanting to go back to my home, as much as it hurts, I know it's true, he would never go back unless is were for his work.

He pushes himself off the counter and stalks to me, a menacing look in his eyes. “That fucking performance at the club.” He snaps, backing me into a wall.

I don't let his intimidating stance back me down, I glare just as hard as he does and shove at his chest. “That wasn't a performance, I went out to have fun, under my fathers orders.” I snap back at him and he chuckles.

Percy chuckles, it's dark and menacing and his body presses firmly against mine. It's a familiar touch that I crave and his heat surrounds me, his scent, too.

“Dry humping someone and kissing someone in front of me is your way of having fun?” He hisses, his face is so close to mine that our noses are touching and I feel his angry breaths hits my lips making me shiver.

A guilty feeling washes over me, “I didn't know you—”

“That doesn't change things, Sophia!”

“I wasn't dry humping him or kissing him!”

I scream back with just as much anger as him, our chest pressed tightly together and his eyes darked with his hand tightly wrapped around my waist, is enough to drive me crazy when my arm is slung around his neck with the other pressing against his chest. I feel our anger surrounding us.

“And when the fuck did you start taking orders from anyone besides me?” His voice is softer now but still loud.

His green eyes swirl with so many emotions in them, so much so that I get lost in them and completely ignore the question he just asked me, and focus on his eyes.

“Sophia?”

I flinch back, only now realizing that his been calling me by my name throughout this time and it annoys me to no end.

“Stop calling me that.” I snap.

It causes our lips to brush together and we pause.

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