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.

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

you want to go on the

pulled me out of my thoughts. I took a deep

He frowned.

“Why?”

isn’t suitable for

shook my

called a number. He told

man appeared with a few bags and he told me where I could

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

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

“What are you doing?”

He asked. I smiled.

Chapter 20 Difficult love

I have to break them

He looked surprised.

long time? Is that going

I shook my head.

think it’s going to hurt, but

“Okay.”

put them on. I made a few movements, little jumps and squats before I stepped on the ice. Honestly, to be on it never felt

side, I tried to move my feet as much as I could, to feel if the

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

on to spins. It really surprised me how comfortable the skates were, and they kept my

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

hubby 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

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

for her.

her. I wanted to feel her

that any time,

differed from what she showed

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.

I knew we had got Riccardo’s attention already. She was a buit; she was here

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 be saved was Gemma, Even if she annoyed me in the last few

Alice looked at me from behind

my time

my phone