INNOCENT
Disclaimer: Partly based on the korean drama, Nice Guy. Characters from the Percy Jackson Series. All credit goes to the author, Rick Riordan.
Summary: In the garbage dumps of New York, Percy meets an orphaned girl, Reyna, and they fall madly in love through high school, then college. But, when Percy takes the blame for a crime she committed, he loses his chance to pursue his medical career and is sentenced to jail for five years. He finally gets out to find that she has betrayed him by marrying into the elite society she has always desired to be a part of. Wanting absolute revenge, he uses and plays the beautiful daughter of the tycoon billionaire Reyna married to get exactly that.
My biggest regret was
bringing her into this...
PROLOGUE
"Reyna?" The green eyed twenty one year old called from the door, slowly opening it to a hotel room.
"I'm here, Percy." a dark haired woman called from behind the bed. She was curled in a ball beside the bed. He walked in, his shoes crunching over the cracked glass on the floor.
A man was laying facedown on the floor with a puddle of bright red blood around his head.
"Oh, gods." he said in a hushed voice, before going over to Reyna. He took off his jacket and wrapped her in it then wrapped his arms around her. Her hair was messed up and the bottom of her dress was ripped.
"Tell me what happened." he said soothingly as he ran his hand down her hair in comforting motions.
"I came here to get some information that my boss needed." she started out. Percy knew she worked as a manager for some big time company CEO and that she had gotten in because the CEO had favored her. He gave her a reassuring nod for her to continue,
"And then this man, he tried to jump me, while he was drunk, so I smashed a bottle over his head…" She let out a sob, "I don't know if he's dead or not."
Percy went over and checked the man's pulse, "Yeah, he's...gone."
Reyna started sobbing even more, "What am I going to do now? My life is over and I'll have to go back to the streets again in the dumps where I grew up from!" She ran her fingers through her hair, tugging harshly at it.
"No, your life isn't over, Reyna. You can get a smaller consequence for killing out of defense."
"But my career and dreams will be over, Percy. I... killed someone." she sobbed.
He looked over at her with his green eyes set, seeing the strong woman he knew her to be, crying as if everything were meaningless to her now; it made his stomach twist.
"No, it's not." he said, getting up and moving around the room. He started erasing any traces that she had been there.
She looked at him, "What are you doing?"
"You weren't here, Reyna. I was the one who killed the guy, okay?"
She stood up and went over to him, grabbing his arm, "No, no, Percy. You can't do this."
"You have it worse than me, Reyna. If I get kicked out of medical school, it wouldn't really matter as much as if you had to go back to the streets."
She sobbed even more,
"I'll repay you, I promise."
Percy looked back at her with his green eyes full of sadness, but a will to not break down.
"When I get to the top. I promise, Percy. I will."
"I trust you, Reyna." he said, pulling her into a hug, he looked down at her, "You have to go now. The police are going to come soon."
She nodded and kissed him on the lips— tears falling down her face, before she pulled away from him and walked out of the room. She looked one last glance back at him, before shutting the hotel door.
Percy watched her leave, then looked out the window as the police cars came speeding in. His face was drawn set; brooding. No matter how much he wanted to reassure himself that it was okay and that he was doing it for her sake—he couldn't get rid of the aching fear that was rising from his gut to his chest.
A silent tear slipped out of his eye as he looked out the window one last time with those beautiful sea green eyes before he heard police break in and felt strong hands handcuff his hands together.
"I hereby charge Percy Jackson to five years in prison." The gavel hit two times on wood and it echoed over and over in Percy's ear as he was led out of the courtroom.
CHAPTER 1
Five years later…
San Francisco, California
Percy got off the girl and slid off the bed, slipping on some pants. He slowly went over to look out the window and poured himself some wine.
The girl's arms snaked around his waist, sliding her fingers over his bare chest— feeling up every muscle of his amazing physique.
"Come sleep in the bed with me. It's more comfortable." the girl whispered seductively in his ear.
He pushed the girls arms slowly off of him and turned, smiling softly down at the girl, making her smile up at him.
"Thanks for the sex, but I have to go now." he said, before going over to the bed and picking up his shirt. His fingers buttoned up his shirt one by one.
"What? What are you talking about?" The girl said, giving a nervous smile as if to wait and see that he was joking.
He smiled at the girl, "You wanted my money, isn't that it? Sorry though, I'm not as rich as I look."
The girl looked taken back, "Well…I…"
Percy smiled again and leaned down to kiss the girl's lips again then leaned over to her ear,
"But—I didn't really care about your ulterior motives for approaching me. I just wanted to get in your pants, dear. So.. I guess we're even." he whispered, before moving away from her.
The girl let out a scoff out of utter shock and shot him a glare.
Percy simply took his jacket and walked out of the hotel room— leaving the girl standing in surprise at the fact that she had been played at her own game.
His face became cold and hardened as he continued walking out of the hotel with his jacket rakishly hung from his arm and his hand in his pant pocket. He slid sunglasses over his eyes as he got into a cab to drive to the San Francisco airport.
In the same hotel, on the upper floors where the expensive suites were at, a hotel maid brought out towels to the private pool as requested. The maid watched, holding the towels in her arms, as a golden haired beauty stepped gracefully out of the pool, shaking her hair to dry it in the sunlight. A man wearing a suit came onto the deck and walked up to her as the beauty picked up the towel from the maid.
"Miss Chase, you're flight is leaving in an hour."
She looked over at the man with her grey stormy eyes and nodded, "What happened with that one customer complaint?"
"As you predicted, she was paid by our rival company to do so."
"Good, make sure to deliver them a lengthy message that we are going to end what they started. Oh, and also make sure to present this to the media. I think they'll get a kick out of the fact that our rival company used fraud to take us down."
"Of course, Miss."
She pulled her damp hair up into a messy bun, letting the towel fall from her body. The man couldn't help but stare as she turned to him again, "Did my step mother and her brat son leave yet?"
"Yes… "
The girl nodded.
"And I should advise you that you should sleep more than eight hours today, since you haven't had any sleep this past week." The man told her.
"Just stick to the work that I give you, Solace. Don't worry about anything else."
"Yes, of course."
She then noticed his staring and looked down at her body that was half exposed in her bikini from letting the towel fall. Her grey eyes then looked up at him, "You're still married, Solace, am I right?"
"Yes."
"And yet I heard you're screwing my secretary." she said flatly, her silver grey eyes watching him get flustered.
"Um.. Well—Th... that is— "
"Save it." She said lifting a hand to stop his stuttering, "If you're not going to stay faithful to your wife, the least you can do is give my secretary some respect and stop blatantly checking other girls out." She gave him a small smile, "Am I clear?"
"Of course." he blurted out.
"Good. Send a message to my father that I'm on my way to the airport." she said as she walked away from him and back into her room suite.
"It is now alright to take your seat belts off at this time." said a woman's voice on the speaker, "Thank you for choosing Omega Airlines."
Percy got up from his seat on the plane and went over to the bathroom, which was already occupied. He waited until the door opened and a blonde girl stumbled out and collapsed in his arms. A lovely lemony fresh scent surrounded his senses as he held the girl who from a quick glimpse was— very attractive.
He was about to push her away, when he heard her heavy breathes against his ear.
He pulled away from her slightly to look at her face. Sweat beaded her brow and her breathes were heavy and glitched.
His hand brushed away her hair from her neck and he pressed two fingers against her pulse.
Irregular heart beat
His eyes widened as he called for an attendant.
Two attendants came and started panicking.
"Miss! Oh no!"
"This is bad! She's the CEO's daughter!"
Percy watched as all the attendants were soon trying to get the first aid kit and placing an oxygen mask over her mouth.
"Her blood pressure is too high!" one of them said.
high blood pressure
"Call for an emergency landing!"
"She's not going to make it! We need a doctor!"
Percy stood there, frozen to the spot. He wasn't a doctor. He got kicked out while in medical school.
No, he was no doctor.
But… he couldn't deny that something inside him
—his conscience—
compelled him to go to her and save the person's life.
Never did he know that this girl would be the perfect ladder for him to climb to the place of his blood hot revenge...
Author's Note:
Hi, guys! This is the very first chapter with the prologue! Yay! Hopefully you guys like it so far. If not- I'm still going to write it anyway, LOL.
Alright, just for a heads up, I am not going to upload this every day like I did for my last story, since- I have work to do now. -_-' I know... It's sad. Haha. And, yes, I know it's frustrating when writers say they'll upload very soon and then they take a billion years to update the next chapter. So, here's what I'll do. This story will be updated every Thursday with the exception of today.
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