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.

quickly pushed these thoughts away. I thought there wouldn’t be anything more pathetic, then

you want to go on

out of my thoughts. I

He frowned.

“Why?”

dress isn’t suitable for

and shook

number. He told

few bags and he told me where

was alone, I sat down. I just watched the ceiling for a little while. I felt weighed down by my thoughts

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 my

“What are you doing?”

He asked. I smiled.

Chapter 20 Difficult love

are new. I have to break them

He looked surprised.

a long time? Is that going to

I shook my head.

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

“Okay.”

little jumps and

tried to move my feet as much as I could, to feel if the ice skates were still

toe 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 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

were, and they kept my

to stop. To be

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

Gideon

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 problems, which were so much more difficult. I never thought I had that in me.

for her.

in every way. I wanted her. I wanted to feel her under me, pleasing her till she

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

knew that her nature differed from what she showed us. I

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

I started, I couldn’t stop at this point. I knew we had got Riccardo’s attention already. She was a buit; she was here to die, or worse. I made

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

up, Alice looked at me from behind the paling,

my time

looked at my phone to check