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.

wouldn’t be

want to go

of my thoughts. I took a deep

He frowned.

“Why?”

isn’t

and shook

called a number. He told the other

few bags and he told me where I could find the

the ceiling for a little while. I felt weighed down by my thoughts and emotions, but I realized it was just a game and

back. He sat on the bench, and he smiled when I got back. He gave me the bag with my new ice skates. I

“What are you doing?”

He asked. I smiled.

Chapter 20 Difficult love

are new. I have to

He looked surprised.

a long time? Is that going

I shook my head.

really comly, I don’t think it’s going to hurt, but I need a

“Okay.”

movements, little jumps and squats before I stepped

could, to feel if the

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 at all, I wanted to be careful. I didn’t want

kept my feet well,

want to stop. To be on

first, 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,

Gideon

trying to get used to her new skates. She could do much more than this. But whilst I watched her, I was thinking

for her.

wanted her. I wanted to feel

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

that her nature differed from what she

she was a figure skater, I couldn’t stop 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

got Riccardo’s attention already. She was a buit; she was here to die, or worse. I made a stupid step that I

to Earth, and not to let this feeling ruin 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, Even if she annoyed me in the last few days, I wouldn’t have taken that if she would

from behind the paling, still on the ice. Somehow, she

my time is

phone to check the