Masuk“I’m going to kiss you, Sophie. And you’re going to let me.” “Why?” My breath stutters. “Because my brother is watching.” I gasp. That should have bothered me, but it didn’t. “Not… not that. Why do you want to kiss me? You don’t… kiss girls, everyone knows that.” “And yet, I’ve kissed you before, haven’t I?” My jaw dropped open. Did he... remember? --- I used to have a crush on Ace Beckham. Used to. He’s Greenwoods Academy’s golden boy. Hockey captain. The kind of beautiful that makes a whole arena go silent when he skates. Ace Beckham doesn’t kiss girls. Everyone knows that. He’ll flirt. He’ll ruin you. He’ll make you feel like you’re the only one in the room. But he doesn’t kiss. Except once. One stupid, drunken, reckless night, he kissed me like it meant something. Like I meant something. The next morning, I was invisible again. Maybe he forgot. Maybe I was never meant to be remembered. I’ve learned to survive that. To pretend I don’t notice him. To make him as invisible to me as I am to him. Until I take a babysitting job—three boys, or so I think. Because they aren’t boys. They are men. The Beckham brothers. And avoiding Ace Beckham in his own mansion turns out to be impossible—especially since I’m starting to realize I never really got over that crush. And I don’t know which is worse— Being invisible to Ace Beckham. Or finally being seen.
Lihat lebih banyakCHAPTER 8 SOPHIE “You have got to be fucking kidding me!” Maddie squeaked as she got into the car that packed before her work place. “Is this really happening? We have vip to stay at the front row too?” I rolled my eyes, pulling my purple jacket closer to cover the number of the jersey I wore. “This is all your fault.” I glared at her. “I really do not want to do this.” “Girl please,” she shushed me away, closing the door closed. “You have been hung up on Ace Beckham for what? Centuries? And I’m all for crushes, but he hasn’t even noticed you once.” My skin prickled, my fingers digging into my leather jacket as the driver Jaxon sent began driving. Something stupid told me that Maddie was wrong. That maybe Ace actually had noticed me. But I knew it was just the stupid crush-filled girl in me speaking.I was so done with this bullshit after tonight. “Don’t forget the reason you’re dating his brother, it is to get over him. So make sure every thought you have of him is negat
CHAPTER 7 SOPHIE I watched Jaxon wink at me and leave, my heart pounded so loudly in my chest I thought it might explode. Running a hand through my blonde hair, I sighed. I already agreed to this, there was no use regretting it now. Thirty minutes later, Josh’s baked bread was ready, and I prayed to the goddess that It was as perfect as it could be. Josh had been the only person so far in this mansion who had been nice to me at first… and I really would hate for that to change over badly baked bread. Using a puffed up hand-glove, I transferred the bread into a glass plate, and I took it up to Josh’s room. I knocked, and he opened immediately.“Hi, Sophie,” he waved, his eyes were dull, with dark circles underneath his eye lids. My brows pulled together, “Hey, are you… are you alright?” Josh smiled—barely. And then nodded. He moved out of the way, granting me access. Josh’s room unlike Ace’s organized and clear of any personality — was glowing with pictures of hocke
CHAPTE 6 SOPHIE “How could he still be with her after what she did to you?!” Maddie screamed into the phone, making me wince. She had showed me a picture Mackenzie had posted of her and Ace after his hockey game yesterday. She had her arms around his neck, and a huge smile on her face. Captioning it, ‘A might with the hottest Hockey captain in history.’I inhaled, kneading the bread dough I was about to bake with the recipe book Mrs Abigail had given for Josh’s food schedule. “You seem to be forgetting that what I have is a one sided crush,” I reminded, wetting the baking pan with butter. “One I would very much want to be over with.” It had been three days since the incident with Mackenzie.Three days of Betty and Belladonna calling me slutty names while passing, also sharing wrong, degrading information about me and creating gossip. But for some reason, the bullying ended in words and words alone. I was getting to my breaking point, and I knew I would retaliate soon enough
CHAPTER 5 SOPHIETears so hot it felt like I cracking open spilled through me. I screamed into Ace’s leather jacket, my fingers digging into his neck as his hand on my leg shook. “It hurts, it hurts… I can’t…” my body convulsed.“Sophie…” Ace’s hand left my leg, and before I could blink, his hand snaked around my back, “fuck, Sophie.” He pulled me into him tighter, and more tears spilled through. I sobbed, the pain was so much it felt like I was being pulled apart.“Just hold a second, a second, the pain will disperse, I promise.” He muttered into my ear, his fingers flexing on my back as he held tight. Heck, maybe even tighter than I was holding him. My breaths came out in short gasps, my eyes closed shot, waiting for the pain to disperse like he had promised. I nuzzled my nose over his jacket, shocked to the bone when his scent enveloped me. He smelled like Cider and heavy rain on a stormy night. I hated stormy nights. But for reasons I didn’t want to admit, I love
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