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 anything more pathetic, then fall for

you want to go on the

my thoughts. I

He frowned.

“Why?”

dress isn’t suitable for

and shook my

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

five minutes, the same man appeared with a few bags and he

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

bench, and he smiled when

“What are you doing?”

He asked. I smiled.

Chapter 20 Difficult love

I have to

He looked surprised.

take a long time? Is that

I shook my head.

it’s going to hurt, but I need a little time to get

“Okay.”

me with interest. Finally, I could put them on. I made a few movements, little jumps

the ice skates were still comfortable in each movement. When I felt that okay, I

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

kept my feet well, so I tried camel and sit spins, and also risked a Jay–back

to stop. To be on the ice again made me forget about

at 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, and I wouldn’t care how much it costs for him. And if I was lucky enough, I would escape from

Gideon

watched her in a daze. After seeing those videos of her, I knew she was just trying to get used to her new skates. She could do much more than this. But whilst I watched her, I was thinking of my

for her.

was beautiful in every way. I wanted her. I wanted to feel her under me, pleasing her

I could do that any time, like my

nature differed from what she showed

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 the sport reporters‘

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

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 have got harmed

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

guessing my time

my phone

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