Sophie's POVSophie exhaled when she threw the door open to the face of Tyler. She swallowed nothing before planting her hands on her waist, refusing to look at him.She wasn't exactly mad at him. A lot that she wasn't expecting just seemed to happen on the same day and she wasn't sure how she was supposed to deal with it. A lot that included Tyler.“Can I help you?” she directed her question at him despite the small strain in her voice. Suddenly finding her nails very appealing, she busied herself with cleaning off specks of death that weren't there.Tyler sighed too and shoved his hands into his pockets. He wasn't sure how to deal with this kind of Sophie. In a very short while, he had gotten used to her loud witty self and he wasn't about to welcome the change.Standing to his full height, he tried to step closer but the glare cast at him discouraged him. He was already exhausted from everything that went on in his day. He wasn't about to add to it.“Can we talk?” Tyler asked in a
Sophie's POVBy the time the elevator opened, Sophie had managed to pull herself together. But it didn't mean that she wasn't in a shaky and terrible mood. She stepped out, not in the least surprised that Tyler was still standing by her door, waiting for her. She didn't want to talk to him. Just because she helped him with Jenna didn't mean that she wanted to have a conversation with him. Walking ahead, she tried to sidestep him and just go into her apartment but he was by the door and he wasn't exactly willing to step aside. Sophie was avoiding any unnecessary body contact and she gestured that he moved with her hands but he was just as adamant as she was. “Let's talk, please.” He pleaded, his voice rough around the edges.“I have nothing to say it you.” She insisted, clutching the gift bag closer.“Soph, please, ” he pleaded again.Sophie wasn't having it either. Letting out a loud huff, she spurned around on her heels and headed toward the basket. Without thinking twice, she dum
Sophie's POV“You have to come back. Please, tell me you are coming back soon.” Sophie stuffed potato chips into her mouth from the potato bag in her hand to prevent her from laughing out loud. The look on Kristen's face glaring at her from the screen was just too funny.And the fact that Kristen was calling her from the office on a Sunday evening was even more hilarious. She munched on the chips quickly when she saw Kristen giving her the puppy dog look.“Talk to me, Boss. I need you right now.” She whined, pouting her lips.Sophie shook her head with a grin. For some reason, she seemed to be enjoying the whole thing going on.“I'm not sure I will be coming back,” she shrugged, lazily. As Sophie uttered those words, reality hit her that she truly might not be going back to the office even if care wasn't taken. There was no way in hell that she would agree to be Giovanni's wife and her father would hold her to it forever.She looked away from the screen, the ache in her heart hittin
Tyler's POVTyler was angry.This was the second time she was finding those flowers and each time had been no different. The first time, Sophie had screamed so loudly that he couldn't be concerned. But this second one, her face had paled and she lost her voice before the shock of the incident made her loose consciousness.He had called the guards, interrogated them to the last minute but all they gave him were excuses. They weren't divulging anything useful and the whole Idea was pissing him off. It was making him so upset and mad.“Tyler, you have to calm down. You can't let one mistake drive you into making a bigger one.” Gabby was trying to reason with him to no avail.“I don't want to calm down, Gab. This is the second time. They keep giving excuses. I'm not paying them to have them feed me excuses. This is total bullshit!” He was so angry, one could see it in his fisted palms.Gabby sighed and leaned against the wall to watch his friend. This was not the first time he would see
Tyler's POVTyler was a bit taken aback by the design of the room when Sophie pulled him in. It was the first time he was coming into her room. Heck, it was the first time he would make it into her apartment. It had always been his.Throwing his glance away from the white walls, he angled his body toward the lady in shorts, seated on the large bed. Sophie sat there staring at him patiently.“What?” he questioned when she wouldn't stop staring at his face.She palmed her face, her body still a bit pale from the event of the past few days. She had gotten so quiet, she hardly ever spoke.“Sophie?” Tyler sighed as he moved toward her. He wasn't sure exactly what he was going to do with her but she was seated there, not looking at him and the whole thing was making him uncomfortable.“Will you talk to me, please?” he pleaded, crouching down low in front of her.Sophie sighed and shook her head. She wanted to say something. She knew she had to say something to him especially as she pulled h
Joyce was fuming. There was something cooking deeply at the pit of her stomach that wouldn't stop pulsing up her veins. She was really pissed off. The plan had been to see if Sophie was okay, walking into a compromising position between the duo was way out of the plan.Her gaze drifted from Sophie's wide eyes to the face of the man in front of her. Tyler only managed a small smile at her unable to tell what exactly was on Joyce's mind. If Sophie didn't notice, Tyler had turn around in time to see a small frown make its way to the latter's face.“I'm sorry, ” Joyce was anything but apologetic at that moment but she forced herself to mouth the words to her best friend who looked slightly offended by the interruption.Tyler moved away from the bed and rather than Joyce leave, she stood there by the door watching the duo. At the end, Tyler smiled and walked out of the room, brushing past Joyce with a murmur of apology. Joyce stared at his retreating figure with a tight smile.“What was th
Sophie's mouth was agape as the car sped into the opened gate, her head turned toward the window, watching every sight her eyes could catch with the speed of the car. She had lived in America all her life but not once had she thought about this place. It had never occurred to her that she would want to visit a place like this.She hadn't even realized that there was a place like this in a long time and now, she couldn't shut her mouth.“You like it?” Tyler whispered, drawing her closer with his hands wrapped tightly around her. Since the limo picked them up from the airport, he had kept her close. They needed to keep appearances, especially with her friends around.“I, I…” Sophie trailed off, a nod following her lack of words. Tyler smiled beside her, giving her hand a gentle squeeze. The car had stopped now and all the occupants were still fighting to speak. They were speechless by the beauty of the place.Sophie's head whipped around to meet Tyler's eager icy gaze. Her abrupt moveme
Sophie ran the tip of the blunt red lipstick over her lips for the umpteenth time, pursing her lips here and there for the desired effect. She smacked her lips together to merge the color she had previously run over it together. Grabbing a pair of her earrings from the opened jewelry box she had brought along with her, Sophie slipped the round loops on.She took a step back and bent over to slip her feet into her Prada peep toe heels, a rest from her usual stilettos and six inches. Just as she started to fasten the strap, the door to the bathroom opened, and out came a dressed Tyler.Sophie paused what she was doing, her gaze skirting over his outfit for a second. Her pulse raced more than she intended for it to as her heart slowed for a second. He was dressed in nothing but black jeans, his feet slipped into a pair of Nike Converse. The navy blue shirt he had over the jeans, untucked, looked as beautiful as he had imagined it to be. Maybe even more beautiful.Her lips parted and her