The Girl He Craves

Chapter 113

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.

that crosses over. I needed to see

there is one little flicker of dishonesty and lies, I

over my cheek softly. His 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 loved you since I first set my eyes on

pulling in a shaky breath. My tongue is tied, but my heart beats like a drum in

to hold air into my lungs. My knees are also weak, and I fear I might topple to them soon if I don’t get

searching for

breath hitches and then as I stared into

now?” I asked in soft tone that was undoubtedly filled

this long, why did he wait now to tell me so? Why did he bully me in high school

making

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. It’s impossible to

soft. Softer than

at me.

and my stomach fluttered with

did you bully me all those

through so much. Maybe we could’ve been together long before what happened. Maybe then…that tragedy wouldn’t have happened in the first

made me go through all this instead of confessing. Yet his confession

didn’t know which emotion to

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

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 thought I could change. Like the times with you.” His thumb brushing

when I got

Ashton. Those days were the

I got for all those times bullying you and

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