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"Why? Tell me how to fix this Ella. I'll do anything. You're my everything and I'm sorry I ever made you feel otherwise." I put my hands on either side of her legs on the bed.
"I'm not. You didn't bother to find out the real story. How can I be your everything when I'm so easily replaced? You didn't even wait a full day before you had that slut in your house."
Fuck, Camille, "No, I didn't. I never fucked her. I didn't even invite her over she came on her own. She heard about the article and came to console me. Her words not mine. I thought a good fuck would be what I needed to get this cold disgusting feel ing of death and agony from inside my gut but I couldn't go through with it. I kept comparing her to you. When you walked in I was just so pissed off that I just wanted you to hurt like I was. Letting you think Camille and I were fucking seemed like the best way to do that. I'm not trying to excuse it but that's the reason. I never had sex with her though. I've been with no one since you. I don't want anyone else but you." The need to touch her is so strong but I don't want her to feel like I'm forcing her hand if she wants me she's going to have to make that first move.
"You didn't? Nothing? She didn't suck you off or anything like that."
I could lie and tell her that we didn't touch but I don't want it to be like that. She deserves the truth. "We kissed, honestly I hated every second of it. It was like kissing a dead fish. I was trying to force myself to feel something. She did try to jerk me off so I could get hard but I couldn't. When you walked in I was trying to force myself to stop thinking about you and when you walked out there was no way I could go through with anything Camille wanted to do. She's not you Ella, no one is."
She moves away from me slightly and I wait for her to say something else. The silence is excrutiating but I deal with it.
"How could you think I would do something like that to you Percy. I'd never hurt you like that. I'd never hurt Ian like that. I was mortified when I saw that article. I figured it was the scum of the earth that wrote something as horrible as this and you thought it was me." She shakes her head.
"I did. I'm sorry. I'm such a fool. The worst kind of idiot." I apologize again.
Her hands relax and she looks back at me. "So who did it? Did you find out?"
"Mom."
Her eyes go wide, "No! Really? Wow, I wouldn't have thought of her in a million years." Ella lets out a soft giggle.
"None of us did. She was holding on to the resentment of what my father did all those years ago and kept waiting for him to do the right thing. When he was ready to push Ian further out of our lives she had enough. She found a reporter and spilled her guts. She'd been meeting up with him since before you even came to me. He'd been following Ian and me around which is how he got the photos of us with Duck. He was probably there the same day you were and none of us noticed him. It was just purely coincidental that the gossip rags leaked the story the same time you were going to release yours. It was all just a fucked up set of events." I explain and she seems truly interested, less hostile.
"It was." She shrugs one shoulder.
"I read your piece. You're even more talented than I knew you were. I don't know if you heard but there's talk about you getting a pulitzer for your work. I'm so proud of you Ella. Truly you did wonderful work and went down the hard road when most would have taken the easy way out and just published the video."
Her face turns a nice shade of red, "Please they're not going to give me a Pulitzer but it's nice that anyone would put me in the category to even be nominated." She looks at me and her eyes zero in on my mouth again.
"I missed you so much Ella. I know it'll take time but can you try to forgive me?" I whisper and she leans forward a little more.
"Yes, I can try. I missed you too." Her voice is breathy and she starts to pant in anticipation.
Fuck it, I know I said I'd wait for her but I can't. I lean forward ready to press my lips to hers when she pulls back suddenly
"I lied!" She blurts out.
"What? Lied about what?" I pull back shocked out of the lure of her lips.
"Well I didn't lie, I omitted. Linc wasn't just platonic though he is now." She admits but she doesn't balk away.
"You had sex with him?" I ask trying my best to keep my rage down. I broke up with her, she was in her right to do that but it didn't mean I wasn't going to go find him and rip his damn arms off his body.
"No, I went to his room with clear intentions to do so. He was supposed to be my rebound. We kissed and touched through clothes but ..." She raises her hand and places it on my face, "he's not you. It just nauseated me. I tried to force myself to get over you but I guess it's not that simple." She smirks and I can't hold myself back anymore.
"It's not. It's no getting over what we have. This is forever Ella." I grab the back of her neck and tilt her head so I can brush my lips over hers.
"Yes. Forever."
The words barely touch my ears but they slam into my body like a sledge hammer.
She's mine.
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Percy lips pressedagainst mine feels like everything is finally right in the world. My body melts against his as he claims my mouth. Wie bite and clash teeth while our hands squeeze and pull at eachother. It feels like utter chaos and I love it.
