Sophie’s pov

I’m a bit lost for words. A bit startled. A bit dumbfounded. I’m not sure what I should say. Or what I should do.

I’m lost.

I’m confused.

But my heart leaped, twice, three times. I draw air into my lungs and continued to stare into his stormy gaze.

Was he speaking the truth?

The hard veil that had concealed all his emotions behind was torn. Vulnerability.

He was vulnerable.

Which meant, those words were true.

I gasped. Finally, my mind was working back, my body, my reaction. Late reaction, but can you blame me?

For a second there I thought he had frozen me completely.

“Wha-t?” Stammering words…..

He takes a step forward, eating up any bit of space that was left between us. My wet hands are fisted by my sides and my eyes have not left his face not once.

want to see every emotion that crosses

is one little flicker of dishonesty and lies, I would be shattered. My heart

head dipped a little so our eyes would be leveled and he whispered. “I’ve loved you for years Sophie Bell. Even as teenagers. I’ve

shaky breath. My tongue is tied, but

it difficult to hold air into my lungs. My knees are also weak, and I

eyes bored into my own, searching for anything.’ Please say

as I stared into

me this now?” I asked in soft

wait now to tell me so? Why did he bully me

making

“Because I can’t keep it to myself anymore. They told me to go slow with you Sophie, but every

than they’ve ever

at me.

spikes in my chest and my stomach fluttered with tiny

all those years ago?”

we wouldn’t have gone through so much. Maybe we could’ve been together long before what happened.

me go through all this instead

emotion to latch

you. I was angry at you. Those words you said to Mila that day…..it haunted me. I didn’t know they held so much weight, but they did. And they turned me into a monster I’m not proud of, but want to get

weren’t the best and I wasn’t my best then. I was someone you should’ve hated, hell loathed. I was a fucking bully. You had every right to hate me and keep hating me. Those things I said to you and did were things I regret with my entire being. But there were times where I

we kissed, when I got

Ashton. Those days were the best. And

after, but I realize that was the karma I got for all those times

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