Chapter 28. Tasting the Forbidden

“Okay,” Ace spoke softly, studying me with concern. “Okay, I think it’s time we talk. Let’s cut this panic of yours short before it starts to snowball, yeah?”

He helped me sit up with gentle hands and wiped my hair out of my face.

“So.” I gulped when I noticed his hand massaging my thigh. “Y-you want to…be with me?”

“More than anything,” Ace confirmed. The broad, loving smile on his face made more than just my stomach flutter. “I’ve dreamed of this day since the moment we met.”

Despite my overwhelming feelings of love and relief, unexpected anger rose too.

“So, then, why didn’t you tell me that, you big jerk!”

I couldn’t help myself. All those years of confusion and wondering what our relationship was, and for what? For him to tell me he had been in love with me since the day we met?

I slapped him on his chest and then instantly regretted it when pain raced up my wrist. It was like hitting a rock.

Ace tutted his disapproval and gently