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.

there wouldn’t be anything

to go on

me out of my thoughts. I took

He frowned.

“Why?”

dress isn’t

and shook my

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

minutes, the same man appeared with a few bags and he told me where I could find the

watched the ceiling for a little while. I felt weighed down by

sat there for a 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

“What are you doing?”

He asked. I smiled.

Chapter 20 Difficult love

I have to break them

He looked surprised.

time? Is

I shook my head.

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

“Okay.”

them on. I made a few movements, little jumps and squats before I stepped on

side, I tried to move my feet as much as I could, to feel if the ice skates were still comfortable in each movement.

loop. 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

comfortable the skates were, and they kept my feet well, so I tried camel and sit spins, and also risked

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

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 from here, back to

Gideon

much more than this. But whilst I watched her, I was thinking of my problems, which were so much more difficult. I never thought I had that in me. I had to admit that

for her.

her. I wanted to

that, I could do that any time, like my father said, but I only wanted that if she wanted

nature differed from what she showed

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

knew we had got Riccardo’s attention already. She was a buit; she was here to die, or

I’ve never been in love. To feel in the world 1 live in wasn’t a clever thing at all.

looked at me from behind the paling,

guessing my time

at my phone