All Chapters of Forbidden obsession ; She’ll be the death of me : Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

ALESSIA’s POV. “Just pick up the damn phone and call him already!” Kendra said, obviously frustrated because I’d just looked at my phone for the fifth time that day, expecting a call or a text message or something. Anything. But not the silent treatment he’d been giving me for two days in a row.Maybe I was overthinking it, or he was actually really busy like he said he was. He’d told me the day before yesterday, after he missed my calls twice, that he’d just gotten back from practice. He was sorry and tired, needed to rest, and was going to call me later.He didn’t.Then I called him the next morning. Same thing. He didn’t respond.And then came a text message.Practice. Call you when I’m done.He still didn’t call. And the funniest thing? Zane hadn’t officially told me he got called back to the ice. I heard it from Coach. Then the school blog. He only told me he was at practice, back from practice, or going to practice.Later that night, I called him three fucking times. It went to

ZANE’s POV. I watched her disappear upstairs, and for the first time, I realized I had fucked everything up.Not because I had stopped loving her.That was the problem.I loved her so fucking much that I had become the exact person I was trying not to become.I lied.I ran.I drank until I couldn’t think about her.And somehow, I’d still ended up thinking about her anyway.I dragged a hand through my hair and stared at the stairs.Fuck.I was losing her.And this time, I wasn’t sure I knew how to stop it.Mason exhaled a long breath behind me. “Do you want to go upstairs?” he asked.“I don’t know what the fuck I’m supposed to say to her. I didn’t sleep with those girls. I might have flirted with them, but I didn’t go beyond that. You were fucking there,” I seethed.“I was there. You flirted. You cheated. Same fucking thing. You don’t have to sleep with someone to cheat. When you share a drink from the same cup as another girl who isn’t your girlfriend, that’s fucking called cheating,

ALESSIA’s POVI was stunned. Beyond words. If I wanted to argue with him, everything I wanted to say had gone out of my head like it was never there. I was supposed to be angry at him, but I wasn’t. I couldn’t be. Not when he’d just publicly embarrassed himself and kissed me in front of everyone.I looked around shyly and yep, everyone was looking at us. Whether it was surprise or disgust on their faces, I couldn’t tell. Coach, the team, Mason, Jace, and Adrian.And Brittany and her mini bitches.I should have been embarrassed, but I was smiling like a fool because never in my life had a guy made a public apology for me and kissed me after.I looked at Zane, and he had that stupid, satisfied smirk on his face. My heart melted, or somersaulted, or skipped a beat—either one of them I couldn’t name because of him.“You’re insane,” I said, my voice coming out more like a whisper than I expected.He shrugged and pressed a kiss to the corner of my lips. It wasn’t his first time, but it alwa

ZANES’s POV. No. I didn’t hear right. Every sense in my body rang, and immediately, I stepped two steps back because I wasn’t sure of myself. I didn’t trust myself or what I was going to do if I stood close to her any minute longer and she looked at me like she was starving.No. Absolutely not. She was drunk, and whatever she was asking for right now wasn’t something I was going to take advantage of.She frowned at me. “I hate you,” she said, and I smiled genuinely because she didn’t mean that. She was just frustrated, and she fucking didn’t know what she did to me when we weren’t drunk.“No, you don’t. You love me so much you hate me for it,” I replied and paused, searching her face. I knew she did. Fuck me, she did, even before we started dating.She shook her head. “Stop assuming too much,” she replied, and I laughed.“Yep, you do. Let’s get you out of here, Lessy,” I replied and helped her down from the island. She stumbled for just a minute and leaned on my shoulder for support.

ZANE’s POV. I went out with Mason and Jace to somewhere Jace recommended off campus to grab food after practice.“You kept your head fine during practice,” Jace said as an observation as we got into his car. Mason was in the back seat as always.“I’ll pretend I have no idea what you’re talking about.” I replied and brought out my phone as he started the engine.“Yh. You do. And it’s an improvement that you’re starting to understand how not to fucking mess up your career because you’re suddenly catching feelings.” Mason replied, and I just stared back at both of them before returning to my phone. Then I quickly sent a text message to Alessia.ME: Back from practice. ME: Going out of campus with Jace and Mase for lunch.I stared at the message longer than I should have because, on second thought, why the hell did I think of telling her where I was going? It was just going to make things more and more complicated.I sighed and shoved the phone back into my pocket.“Again, Zane. Stop ju