09/09/2020
JUST US
WRITTEN BY AUTHORESS NINI
FINAL CHAPTER!!!
CHAPTER 35.
💜💜SOPHIA💜💜
I woke up to the sound of a knock on the door. I scrambled upright and, hauling the sheets over myself, asked who was there.
"It's me, Vince."
I felt my heart give a funny little start. "Um...I'm not dressed."
"I've seen it all, Sophie," he said with amusement colouring his tone. "You've done nothing but flaunt it at me for the past week or so."
I glowered at the door and then stiffened when the door opened and Vince stepped in as if he owned the place. Ok. Fine! He owns the place. The fact that he did - was beside the point.
"What do you think you are doing?" I chuckled.
He came over carrying a tray with steaming hot tea and fresh rolls and a selection of home-made preserves.
"I thought you might like breakfast in bed," he said. "After all, you had a pretty restless night."
I frowned and angled my head suspiciously at him. "I.. I did?"
He gave a nod and set the tray down on the bed next to my tightly clenched thighs.
"I found you sleepwalking at about two in the morning," he said. "Do you do that often?"
I felt my face color up. "How would I know?
" Hasn't anyone found you wandering like a ghost in the past?" He asked.
I rolled my lips together and looked down at the curl of steam coming from the teapot on the tray, wondering if Vincent, like my father, thought there was something wrong with me, something seriously wrong as inside my head.
I had walked in my sleep at regular intervals in the first few months after my mother's death. Either Zach or Father would usually find me wandering and had gently led me back to bed.
Father had wanted me to see someone about it. I had seen the pain on his face, the disappointment that his daughter was defective in some way.
And now it has started again.
"Sophia?" Vince tipped my face up with the blunt tip of his index finger.
I felt the pulse of heat pass from his body to mine. It was like a slow burn on my skin, making it quiver with a longing.
"No," I said, and sent out my tongue out over my bone-dry lips. "No one has ever mentioned it. I used to sleepwalk when I was a child. I thought I had stopped ages ago but it must have been the stress of the past weeks and so on."
He exchanged his finger for his thumb on my chin, using it like a soft brush over the sensitive area just below my lower lip.
"Sometimes I get the feeling you are not the person everyone thinks you are, " he said, his eyes holding mine as his thumb continued its mesmerizing action.
I disguised a swallow. "Wh...what makes you say that?" I asked, annoyed at the slight catch in my voice.
His eyes looked more gray than silvery this morning.
"I might have perfected my don't-mess-with-me-I-don't-give-a-damn-air, but I think we both need attention. I pushed everyone away but what I really want is someone to be close to,someone who understands me and accept me as I am. And, you're just in many ways like me."
I felt cornered. The tray containing the hot tea had me trapped in one side and I know if I should move to the other it would spill and possibly, burn Vince.
"I have no idea of what you are talking about," I said, schooling my features into an expression of boredom.
He gave a slowly spreading smile and brushed the pad of his thumb over my bottom lip. It was like an electric shock as soon as his flesh touched mine.
Every nerve in my mouth leapt and tingled, eager for more. I wanted to send my tongue out again to taste where he had been and I fought the urge with an enormous effort.
"You play the nerd so well," he said in a low deep burr. "You dress the part, you act the part, but there's something that doesn't quite fit."
I tried to lift my but he captured it between his thumb and index finger as if he had anticipated my movement even before I had done so myself.
"Don't do that" I said.
"You don't like it when I touch you like this?" He asked as he trailed a slow-moving finger down the curve of my cheek.
I felt a responding quiver deep in my belly. "I..uhm..n-no."
"What about this?" he asked, leaning in and pressing a barely touching kiss to my left temple.
"N..no," I croaked and then swallowed as he moved to my right temple. I felt a shiver pass through me, awakening every sense inside my body.
"What about here?" he asked and kissed the edge of my mouth, not on my lips but close enough to feel the masculine rasp of his unshaven skin.
Heat exploded inside me, blistering heat that threatened to consume everything in its path.
"Sophia!!" Bruce yelled and barged in through the door. Vincent stood upright and made to leave.
"See you in ten minutes." He said and walked out, leaving me to wonder where we were supposed to be together.
"Hey, little man!" I resettled the tray which was threatening to slip off the bed and lifted him into my arms.
"You need to consume that really fast, I need to show you something." Bruce said rubbing his palms on my cheek.
"O..K! Is it a surprise?" I asked treating myself to a roll.
"Not really. It's just somewhere you've never seen or been."
"Can't wait then."
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Seven minutes later, I strode down a long hallway I have never noticed before with Bruce sauntering beside me.
"Aren't we there yet?" I asked for the umpteenth time.
"Just a little while more Sophie."
I sighed. I just hope he's not playing one of his pranks on me again.
"Uhm..Sophie..."
"What?"
"I forgot my racing car in my room, could you please wait for me in that room?" He said, pointing to a double door ahead.
"It's a prank right?" I asked giving him a pushed up face.
"Just wait for me!" He said and ran off.
This perky little boy!!
I moved up ahead and made my way slowly into the unguarded lowly dim lit room.
"You are here!" A voice said behind me and I jumped.
I turned around to see Vince rub his hand over his face.
"You startled me."
"I'm sorry," He laughed. "Come, let's sit"
"You've got a really big place here." I smiled.
His expression faltered for a moment as I took my seat.
"And why is everywhere so dark?"
"I love it this way."
"You love it?-" I raised a brow.
"Yes, I do. And you sure can see better now."
"Of course, I can." I said, remembering I now use contact lenses.
"Sophia, can I show you some things?"
"Yes sure."
He grabbed my hand and we made our way into a inner room filled with pictures and portrait.
"They are my parents." He said, as I walked to touch the portrait of the beautiful woman who stood in the circle of her lover's arm and looked up soulfully into his eyes.
"They- are beautiful!" I said as touched another one of them smiling together.
"Wow.. You look so adorable here, so much like Bruce." I trailed my hand over the portrait of the little boy who stood with socks in his hands, smiling so lovingly.
"That's me!" He said smiling.
"I know." I smiled back at him.
"Sophia-" he called.
"Um.." I replied, deeply engrossed in the images I'm looking at.
"Do you know what I want most in the world?"
I smiled cheekily. "You want to be loved, " I said. "I know you want to be loved and accepted for who you are."
"Do you love me and accept me as I am?"
I dropped the frame gently back on the table and moved towards him.
"I admit I didn't at first, " I wrapped my arm around his neck. "But I have come to realize how wrong I was about you. This past months has taken its toil and luckily for us, fate had a good thing in stock for us. I love you very much, Vincent. Very much."
He reached for his back pocket and went on his knee. Tremor, anxiety, and excitement filled me.
"Sophia, you are very special to me. So talented and beautiful and so damned sensual I can't keep my hands off you. I love you so much too Sophia. Do me the honor of accepting this ring and marry me. It will be Just Us forever. Marry me Sophia."
I stretched my left hand out for him as tears rolled down my cheeks.
"I will marry you Vincent!" I said and he slid the glittering band on my finger.
He rose up and I went straight into his arms and allowed him rock my body.
He tilted my chin up and covered my mouth in a wet kiss.
"Now let the party begin!!!" Bruce little voice shrilled out and the lights came up, revealing over twenty people.
The music started blaring just as immediately as the shock took over me.
"Congratulations, Mom." Bruce said and I bent to his height and gave him a loud kiss. "It was a surprise after all."
"Yeah, it was" Father said as he hugged me tightly.
"Thank you so much" I said kissing Zach's cheeks.
I was all smile as I walked over the room on Vincent's arm, thanking people. Cameras flashed from all angles.
"Knew you had a big chance with the boss!" Vicky and Elena said as they enclosed me in a big hug.
"Thanks so much guys" I said, blushing real hard.
"Well, well, well.. Look who's finally lucky to get a good man." Amelia said as she hugged me.
"Wish you'll just stop badmouthing me." I whispered into her ears and she smiled.
"I was just pulling your legs babe. I got myself one too." She said as Jerry bent to kiss her on the mouth.
"Wow..didn't see that coming." Vincent said and we all laughed.
"Thank you so much."
I can't believe I am finally engaged to the CEO of MarklordyVM, I mean, I had never really thought of that.
I looped my arms around his neck. "I love you so much Mark Vincent, " I said. "I really, really love you."
"You know something, Sophia?" He smiled as the paparazzi hustled closer to capture the moment. "I really, really love you too."
THE END!!
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