The Trap Of Ace

Read The Trap Of Ace [by Eva Zahan] Chapter 41 – Fuming, I strode to the door and tried to open it. But his pair of strong arms snaked around my midriff and hauled me to the middle of the cabin.

A shriek left my mouth. “What the h**l, Valencian! Leave me right now!”

“I will. Once you hear everything I’ve to say.”

His calm tone made me boil. I didn’t let him explain things, so he would literally keep me captive in his cabin, in his arms?

I can’t believe this man!

“No! I won’t hear anything! You’ll do what I want, and then let me go!” I said, putting on the scariest face I could manage on my face with a stern voice.

But he ignored me. Because he was too busy roaming his grey eyes across my every single feature. As if he hadn’t seen me for years. Not tolerating being disregarded like that, I stepped on his feet. With my five inches heel.

A hiss left his mouth, his filled with adoration orbs now watched me in shock and confusion. But I didn’t see any anger in there. Nor did his arms loosened a bit around me.

“Do not ignore me when I’m talking!”

His one rough palm caressed my cheek with the gentlest touch. “I could never ignore my Rosebud. But I won’t let you go anywhere until you hear everything and forgive me.”

“That would never happen!” My eyes narrowed. I wiggled into his hold, but as always, I failed to escape. My gaze flickered to those stupid bulging muscles underneath his sleeves.

“It will. I’ll make it happen. Now what my Rosebud wanted from me?” Leaning in, he took a desperate sniff of my hair. His heady scent was messing up with my senses.

Leaning back from him, I said, “I want you to terminate the contract. I want to leave.”

The mention of leaving had him tensed. His arms tightened around my waist and jaw clenched. Then the old Achilles Valencian came back in full force as his features hardened as stone. I saw the storm swirling inside him through the windows of his soul. Those stormy grey eyes.

“You’ll never leave me, Rosebud. Never again. I won’t let you.” The coolness of his voice sent shivers down my spine.

“Well, it was you who let me go. I didn’t leave on my own wish. I was pushed away,” I said, holding his gaze.

Now his stony features softened up a bit. “I didn’t want to, Rosebud. No sane person would push the only light away from their life. But…”

“But you’d to.” I completed for him, gulping the thickness of my throat. “Tobias told me everything.”

Surprise etched into his face.

“I had no choice, Rosebud. Trust me, I kept meeting you and spending time with you even after knowing how I would affect your life in a bad way. I was too selfish to let you go.” Pain flashed across his eyes.

“But you did,” I whispered. My heart clenched. “You left me.”

Shaking his head, he pressed his forehead against mine, letting out a shaky breath. “I never left you, Rosebud. I could never.”

“What do you mean?”

“Yes, I separated you from me. But I was always around. Though I couldn’t touch you from up close, my eyes always did from afar,” he said, stopping my heart at my chest. Then raising my left hand, he kissed my wrist, gazing at my bracelet. A soft smile tugged at the edge of his lips. “This looks more beautiful on you than I imagined.”

A gasp slipped through my lips. Eyes wide, mouth agape.

So, t-the anonymous person who gifted it to me was… him?

“I-it was you?”

nodded, kissing

I was shocked. All the time I wore it on my wrist and I didn’t even have any idea it was him who left the box

gift to my Rosebud on

graduation?” My voice

from you here in California most of the time.

asked, tears rolling down my cheeks. He didn’t abandon me? He was there all the time when I thought he didn’t even care to call

left you alone. I could never leave my

yet you didn’t consider confronting me. Didn’t once come before me. Why did you

but he held me firm against

of his jaw ticked as his nostrils flared. “Especially when I had to see my girl dating other men. I’d to endure it all. Trust me, they were lucky I took it as my punishment to push you away from me. Otherwise, they’d be

some days. I couldn’t even stretch them to a week. Because all I felt towards them was, nothing.

know how much it hurt me to feel like playing with others? Just

out of nowhere.” His greek accent dense. “You were always

worthy

my

life to decide what i’ll do or not. How did you know I wouldn’t fall for anyone else and accept you back into my life just like that?”

need to know that you wouldn’t fall for anyone else. Because my Rosebud loved me enough to keep

slammed into my chest.

I couldn’t give up. After all, I’d waited seven f*****g years to have you back

“You didn’t let me stay with you. You pushed me away when you needed me the most. I… hate you! I hate you Achilles Valencian for that! I hate you!”

wasn’t my fault, I didn’t know anything about his condition. But still, I felt guilty. For not being there for him when he needed me. It tormented

he whispered, “And I love you,

at him. And then slowly my heart started racing, a tingling sensation spread across my veins. My knees wobbled at his declaration. The intense emotions searing through

that haunted my dreams. The words that ran into my head twenty-four hours. The words I hated myself for feeling flutters in my tummy

I love you…

to hear those words again. My ears yearned to

lip trembled. I had no words. I was

you every time you smiled at me with those big doe eyes. I loved you whenever that little nose crinkled every time you thought you’d lose into the chess matches.” He kissed my nose, followed by my eyelids. “I loved you when you were away from me. I loved even your annoying habit of eating garlic prawns using your hand. And I love you when I have you in my arms right now. The place where I want to

kiss. A whimper left me as I melted against him. My

that without you, I deny to even breath,” murmuring against my lips, he claimed my mouth again. The way he moulded our lips around each other, the intoxicating strokes of his tongue, the warmth of his arms, I found myself letting out a

with equal urgency. I missed those lips. I missed his arms, his voice, his

move our gazes away

you still mad at me, Rosebud?” he asked, grey pools

Would I?

answer, a knock landed on the door. I tried to pull away from him

need. Whoever it is, will

door much to his dismay. It could be something

reason behind my eagerness to open it was, I got an

door wide, it flew

great to see…” Her ear-splitting grin fell into a half

clenched,

Red freaking witch!

the h**l was she

I could feel

planting an extra sweet and fake mask on her face. The once over