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 a

want to

my thoughts. I took a deep

He frowned.

“Why?”

isn’t suitable

shook

of his pocket and called a number. He told the

few bags and

ceiling for a little while. I felt weighed down

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 procedure by

“What are you doing?”

He asked. I smiled.

Chapter 20 Difficult love

skates are new. I have to break

He looked surprised.

take a long time? Is that

I shook my head.

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

“Okay.”

movements, little jumps

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

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

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

want to stop. To be on the ice again made me

he could do for me in exchange. I decided there and then, I would

Gideon

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

for her.

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

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

nature differed from what she showed us. I saw

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

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

to come back 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

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

guessing my

my phone to check the