I'll forgive when I forget ✔️

Chapter Eighteen

Alexa's POV:

I woke up before the sun as usual. I noticed Kate still asleep and I decided to get ready. I wrote her a small note telling her I'm at work and there's money in the table if you get hungry.

As soon as I got to the gym I started my warmups. Music was blasting and my adrenaline was high. Even though Blake is in jail I can't help but still feel angry. My parents. I haven't seen them in 7 years and frankly I don't want to. How could they do that to me? And now to Kate? I just don't get it.

Suddenly my music was turned off abruptly and looked at the source. There leaning against the wall in his shirtless glory lied Ace. It should be illegal for him to take off his shirt because all I was thinking was licking whip cream off his abs. Weird. Where did that thought come from? He slowly stalked over towards my sports bra and shorts form. He stopped a few inches in front of me. His face blank.

"I'm sorry." This shocked me. Why was he apologizing? "I shouldn't have thought so poorly of you without the chance to explain. I know you want to tell me in your own time and that's fine with me. But damm!t I can't be without you. I couldn't sleep last night knowing we argued and you were mad. I want to make you happy and smile. I want to be there for you when you cry and I want to make all your problems disappear. I couldn't watch Blake kiss you and not do anything because I realized that you are mine. Only mine. I can't stand the thought of any other man touching you or making you smile." His hand cupped my cheek affectionately while he stared into my eyes.

"I was an as$hole, but God damm!t your the fu€King love of my life and I can't live without you." His words caught me by surprise. A small gasp left my lips. He loved me? Ace actually loved me.

"Y-you love me?" I whispered in a stutter. Stupid stutter! I hadn't realized that came back. Maybe Blake leaving was bringing some of me back. He nodded and smiled.

I shook my head violently and moved out of his grasp. "You can't love me." I stated disappointedly. But it was true. He doesn't know me and when he finds out all my secrets, he won't want to know me. His eyes show confusion. "But I do." He states strongly.

"You don't even know me!" I nearly yelled. It came out firm and I looked angry. "How can you love someone you don't even know?"

He shook his head and chuckled lightly. "You don't understand Alexa. " I'm starting to realize no one calls me Alex anymore. -_-

"I see you." I pulled my eyebrows together confused. What does that mean.

"Something inside is hurting you. That's why you fight and release your anger or have music turned up so fu€King loud, you can't think. Right after you win a fight you see that little amount of guilt you hold. You block people out. You run. You try to stay alone because you think you don't deserve them. You deserve to be lonely lost in your thoughts. You push people away because your scared of vulnerability. Your scared that others are going to see what you see. You want people to believe your hallow and empty, that you aren't worth the effort but baby, I've seen it. I've seen you smiling and happy and not just from high school. You try to block it out, try to pretend you can't laugh or smile, but it's all an act. And let me tell you something. I see right through it."

"And how can you love someone like that!" I screamed. Tears were running down my face. I've been crying a lot since he came into my life. "How can you love someone that puts on an act everyday just to keep herself together?" I whisper. My vulnerability was out there now. I was practically wearing my heart in my sleeve.

He smiled. "Because I've seen beyond that."

"I'm in love with you. All of you. Your hair that goes frizzy after you brush it, your perfect plump lips, your eyebrows and how they don't match your hair but are still perfect, tickling you and hearing you laugh, or how I'm not even tickling you yet and you still laugh, I love when I give you a bunch of kisses and you start to smile, I love your toes and feet that are always cold, I love the way you look at the stars as if they were an answer to a puzzle you could never figure out, and I love you. I've loved you from the first day I saw you at the diner innocently flirting with Ryan. I was so jealous but not as jealous of Blake when he came in and swung you around in a hug. I wanted that to be me. I wanted you. I still want you. I'm in love with you Alexa."

I was speechless. Ace just admitted to being in love with me and I was staring at him like a fish out of water. "I-I-"

"You don't have to say it back. I just wanted to put it out there in case you were I don't know mad. I'm sorry for what I said yesterday and not letting you-" his hand was running through his hair nervously and I decided to cut off his cute rambling with a kiss. It muffled his words and I almost laughed but didn't when his arms went around my waist pulling me close. I pulled back for air and looked into his eyes. "I love you too."

With that's said he captured my lips again in a torturous way. How can he be this yummy?

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