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.

emotion that crosses over. I

of dishonesty and lies, I would

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

me pulling in a shaky breath. My tongue is tied,

lungs. My knees are also

into my own, searching for anything.’

I stared into his unwavering

now?” I asked in soft tone that

did he wait now to tell me so? Why did he bully me in high school if

wasn’t making any

jaw bone and he uttered. “Because I can’t keep it to myself anymore. They told me to go slow with you Sophie, but every time I’m in your presence I can’t think properly and I fall even harder.

are soft. Softer than

at me.

chest and my

why did you bully me all those years ago?” I

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

me go through all this instead of confessing. Yet his

emotion to

with regret. “Because I loved you then but wanted to hate you. I was angry at you. Those words you said to Mila that day…..it haunted me. I didn’t know they held so

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

kissed, when I got

days were the best. And

all those times

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