บททั้งหมดของ Kidnapped by My Mate Universe: The Alpha's Doe: บทที่ 11 - บทที่ 20

10. The Weight of Unspoken LoveMy mom stood from her seat. “Oh, sweetheart,” she whispered. She rounded the island and silently opened her arms to me.I fell into her embrace with a pathetic whimper, blinking furiously to try to keep my panicked tears at bay. But the longer I sat there trying not to cry, the more heavily the tears fell.After a minute of sitting in my mother’s hold, she leaned back and framed my face with her hands. “Why are you crying, sweetheart?”It was a great question. Why was I crying? Shouldn’t I be happy? Love was supposed to be a good thing, right? So why did I feel so panicked? I sniffled and shrugged my shoulders. “I don’t know. Just scared, I think. This is the first time I’ve admitted my…my feelings for Ace out loud.“And I’m scared of how strong they are. I never realized… I thought it was just a stupid crush.”My mom nodded. “The sort of love you and Ace share for each other is extremely special. It’s okay to feel overwhelmed.“But this has been a lo

12. Shadows of DoubtI cried by myself in the dark for longer than I cared to admit. It felt pathetic, but Marta’s confession seemed like the end of the world. I didn’t want Ace to be with someone else.Even if I hadn’t been hopelessly in love with him, I’m not sure I would have ever been okay sharing him with some other girl. Ace had always been mine and mine alone.He didn’t have any siblings, and his mom died when we were young, so it was just him and his dad, and his dad was one scary motherfucker. It’s why we almost always went to my house instead of his.If this new girl came into his life, she would take him away from me. No girlfriend would be okay with her boyfriend being as close to another girl as Ace was to me.He would stop spending as much time with me. He would stop sleeping next to me every night.Another bout of intense sobs escaped my chest. I didn’t know what I would do without Ace.Reaching down to my side, I grabbed my phone. I needed to call him. I needed to hear

14. Secrets and ScreamsHalf an hour later, I was still deliberately self-sabotaging as I watched the main character of my horror movie walk into a room I knew she shouldn’t.I could barely even watch, pulling my blanket up past my chin so it almost covered my eyes. I felt so stupid. I was never going to be able to fall asleep after all of this.Why was I doing this to myself? Why had I chosen the one night that Ace might not sleep with me to watch the scariest movie known to humankind?I should’ve closed my laptop and done some homework.But the fact that Ace had been so totally right about this movie made me even more determined to finish it.Just then, the door to my bedroom flew open and a scream exploded from my mouth. It was so loud, it could have put a banshee to shame.“Dotty, Ace is on the phone!” Thomas yelled as he burst through the room. He flinched at my shriek of terror. “Why are you screaming?”My hand flew to my chest as I tried to slow my racing heart. Jesus Christ, I

16. Bound by DesireWhen I woke up the next morning, Ace was kneading my bare boob.I wish I was kidding.His huge body spooned me from behind, and his heavy breathing told me he was still dead asleep, but his hand had traveled under my shirt and was groping my left boob.I couldn’t believe it. Ace changes the subject every time I try to talk to him about our relationship and then goes and pulls this shit?We still had about an hour before my alarm would go off, but there was no way I was going to be able to fall back asleep if he continued using my tit as his own personal stress ball.With an annoyed huff, I attempted to pry his grimy mitt off me, but to no avail. His grip wasn’t hard or anything but it was firm and unrelenting—not to mention inappropriate.Maybe someday, if Ace and I ever got together, this sort of thing would be okay…But that was not today. I wouldn’t allow him to touch me like this as if it meant nothing. I felt like I was just the closest and most convenient pie

18. The Weight of SecretsAce left about twenty minutes earlier, and I was still lying on my bed and staring at the ceiling as I tried to process what the fuck my life had become. Everything was a mess.I squeezed my eyes shut as I thought of Ace telling me he wasn’t going to touch me in a sexual way again unless I asked him to.While that brought me some relief, I knew that wasn’t totally what I wanted.When I said he couldn’t touch me like that without any explanation, I meant exactly that. Touch me but tell me why.Tell me why you’re doing it, what’s going through your head—that you think I’m beautiful, that you like the way my skin feels against yours, that you want to be more than just friends.Tell me you want to be with me.Somehow, though, I knew he would never say those things to me. Ace saw me as the girl he grew up with. He was attracted to me physically—that much was obvious—but nothing beyond that.Wouldn’t he have told me by now if there was something more between us?M