Cold Hearted Princess

Chapter 20 Difficult love

It was a sports centre. My heart pounded faster when I realised he took me to an lor rink.

He gently pushed me to go in.

A man greeted us.

“Mr. Sullivan?”

He nodded and pulled me closer to him.

“Mr. Brown, this is my wife, Alice.”

“It’s a pleasure to meet you, Mrs. Sullivan. Please follow me.”

We followed him and found the ice rink. Seeing the ice gave me a feeling of relief that I hadn’t felt in a long time.

“Mr. and Mrs Sullivan, take your

time.

Then he left. I looked around and there was no

“The ice rink

no one. I looked at Gideon, ready to ask him, but he was faster.

k is yours for an hour today, then I’ll rent a place for you whenever you want and as long as you want.”

I was in disbelief. I remembered Lily’s advice, but this time, I felt like I had to speak.

“Why? Why do you do this to me?” I frowned while I looked at him.

He looked at me with an earnest face first, and he stayed quiet for a few seconds, just looking into my eyes.

Then he looked away.

“I agreed to finance you in figure skating. I’m just keeping my promise.”

I looked at him, and when he looked back into my eyes, I felt something, but that wasn’t gratitude or sympathy, that was something else that I never felt before.

I thought there wouldn’t be anything more pathetic, then fall for

you want to go on the

me out of my thoughts. I took

He frowned.

“Why?”

dress isn’t

shook my

called a number. He told the other person we need suitable clothing, and be told him my

bags and he told me where I could find the changing

ceiling for a little while. I felt weighed down by my

few minutes, when I remembered he paid for me to be here, so I changed my clothes and rushed back. He sat on the bench, and he smiled when I got back. He gave me the bag with my new ice skates. I took them out, and I started the procedure by massaging

“What are you doing?”

He asked. I smiled.

Chapter 20 Difficult love

new. I have

He looked surprised.

time? Is that going

I shook my head.

should he really comly, I don’t think it’s going to hurt, but I need a little time to get used to

“Okay.”

a few movements, little jumps and

much as I could, to feel if the ice skates were still comfortable in each movement. When I felt that okay, I started with my favourite movements,

I repeated it a few times, then I moved on single lutz and single flips, and dad single salchows. For now, I only repeated them. I didn’t want to try hard jumps, especially not quads. Even if the skates were okay, and they didn’t hurt me

It really surprised me how comfortable the skates were, and they kept my feet well, so I tried

nice. I didn’t really want to stop. To be on the

but then I changed my mind. If he could take advantage of my life, then that was the least he could do for me in exchange. I decided there and then, I would come every day, and I wouldn’t care how much it costs for him. And if I was lucky enough, I would escape

Gideon

she was just trying to get used to her new skates. She could do much more than this.

for her.

I wanted to feel her under me, pleasing her till she was trembling in

could do that, I could do that any time, like my father

that her nature differed from what she showed us.

watching those videos, and I knew she just held herself back. Alice had her own will, and she was strong–headed. She was a fighter, and probably a survivor, too. She wasn’t quiet at all, and she answered the sport reporters‘

She was a buit; she was here to die, or worse. I

my plan. I’ve never been in love. To feel in the world 1 live in wasn’t a clever thing at all. The first person who I wanted to be saved was Gemma,

up, Alice looked at me from behind the paling, still on

guessing my time is

at my phone