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Wait... hold up.. been with?
"No! Oh God, no Percy! I don't mean been with like we had sex or anything. Literally, I just sat with him in his apartment watching cooking shows. He said that he's trying to stay clean, but it's harder when he's alone. All his friends are users so he has no one. He paid for the cab to get me here. He's just angry and so was I. He fed me chips and water. No touching, no long gazes into each other’s eyes, nothing of that nature." I watch his body relax a little bit.
He’d really thought I went up there to have sex with his brother, now it's my turn to get angry. "Wow, I see it's very easy for you to think the worse of me." I cross my arms over my chest and glare right back at him.
"Oh no, don't pull this shit on me. You're the one running around in the middle of the fucking night in another man's house. Brother or not. If I did that shit how the fuck would you feel?" He snaps at me.
"I'd trust you enough to know that you wouldn't do something like that." I snap right back.
"Yeah? So if I called Camille right now and said I wanted to go hang out at her house, you would be fine with that?"
Just the thought of him in the same place with her alone has my insides crawling with disgust.
"No, but that's completely different. You're brother isn't trying to get with me. He's just looking for someone to support him. That used to be your job until you went all Jekyll and Hyde on him tonight."
"What? You don't know what happened tonight. Just because you stayed for a part of what was going on you don't know anything." He snarls at me, taking another step closer to me.
"I know your brother needed you to have his back and you punched him in his face instead. Seems to be a recurring thing for you." I shrug one shoulder and look away from him.
"Was I supposed to just let him beat on my father? If he went for my mother next, would that have been okay too?" Percy asks.
I take a breath and try to deescalate the argument. "Of course not. I'm not saying you should have let him beat on your father, but maybe instead of fighting against him you could have just stopped him. Just took him out of the situation which was so clearly heated at the moment.”
"Well, I'm sorry I didn't handle my family crisis to your liking. Next time my family decides to brawl I'll look to you for guidance." He narrows his eyes at me and walks away.
"Percy, don't you walk away from me!" I scream at his back. He turns quickly and beelines straight for me. "You walked away from me! I turned around after dealing with this shit with my family and you were fucking gone. When I thought something happened to you, that I let something happen to you it felt like my fucking heart was being ripped out of my chest. You didn't wait to see what I was going to say to my father. You didn't give me the benefit of the doubt. You didn't bother to yell at me, you just left."
He shakes his head. I can feel the tension rolling off his body.
I know the actions I took were probably the wrong ones, but I didn't mean to make him feel like this.
I reach up with my hand and press it to his face, he jumps before he melts subtly against my touch. "Percy, I'm sorry. I can admit leaving in the middle of the night was a reckless thing to do. I can only imagine how nerve-racking something like that must have been. I didn't think and I should have. I'm sorry about that." When he moves a little closer and I feel his body start to relax a little more I continue, " But I'm not going to apologize for leaving. Your father doesn't care for me and maybe you did defend me after the fact, but if I stayed there I would have surely said some things I'd never be able to take back. I needed to breathe and I wasn't going to do that there."
"You will never do this again." He grabs hold of my waist and pulls me closer to him. The anger suddenly turning to fear in his gorgeous green eyes.
"I can't promise you that. Sometimes I just need to go out and blow off steam, but I can promise you that I'll let you know where I am so you don't have to hire an army to find me." I raise an eyebrow at him and the corner of his mouth curls up slightly.
“Maybe I went a little overboard.”
I toss my head back and laugh, “You think?”
The smirk falls from his face, “I don’t care what my father thinks. I know you. There’s nothing he can ever say that would make me give you up. If he hates me, because of it, then so be it.”
“Thank you for that Percy. I don’t want you to ever have to choose. I’d never put that on you.” I pull him closer and lay my forehead on his chest.
“There’s no choice Ella, it’s only you.”
27
percy
The sun filtersinto my room from the window, waking me up and shining down on the still sleeping Ella. Last night has to be one of the worst nights of my life. Not because of the fucked up shit that my father said about my brother or the way he talked to Ella, but because of what happened after. When I couldn't find her, it literally had felt like my world was ending. Every time I tried to breathe my heart cracked more and more. I've never felt anything like that in my life. This is more than just caring about my significant other, this was feeling as if I couldn't live without her.
I squeeze her closer to my body and she snuggles against my chest. Her hair tickles my arms and face as I lean in, breathing in her scent. I'm falling hard for this woman. There's no use in denying it. A light buzzing noise sounds next to me alerting me to the fact that I need to be getting up and going to work. I'd rather lay here and just feel Ella in my arms. Reaching over, I stop the alarm doing my best to keep Ella still. Unfortunately it’s not enough.
"Mmm, what time is it?" She groans as she stretches through the last bits of her slumber.
"It's six." I whisper, groaning as she leans her head back and looks up at me with those sleepy eyes. Fuck, she's always so damn sexy. My hands trail down her waist and onto her thigh lifting her leg up and draping it across mine.
