Episode 49 In His Arms

💦 ACE 💦

 {💔 He's broken... She will heal Him ❤ }

 (🌺 He's arrogant..... She's crazy 🌺)

 🔥 Billionaire Romance 🔥

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 🌺 Alex 🌺

"Okay but I would have won... just one more strike" I say taking off my bowling shoes and changing into my Sneakers

 "Sure, keep telling yourself that" Ace says taking our shoes to the front 

"Shut up" I laugh and grab my purse, getting ready to leave

Our bowling date had been quite an eventful night.

 We decided to wear baseball caps and these ridiculous and funky looking glasses that Ace believed would act as "disguises'. It was too funny.

He also won the bowling round... 3 times, But we can say we were almost tied.

So far it had been a beautiful evening and we were both for the first time in a while, having carefree fun together. We talked and bonded, which reminded me of the time I spent with 'Liam Wilson'. 2 friends, having fun, which I didn't think would ever happen with Ace.

But tonight, I was proven wrong.

Walking out the doors, it was a bit dark outside since the sun had set. We decide to walk down the busy streets of New York, the city that never sleeps. 

I never really appreciated how beautiful and lit up Manhattan was at night since I was either always working through my night shifts as a nurse before, and either stuck at the office the past couple years. 

But being here with Ace, walking down the street with him, everything felt magical and was experiencing this magic for the first time ever, with him.

I look over to my left and feel my breath get caught in my throat upon seeing his relaxed face, looking at the tall skyscrapers. His chiseled jaw and perfectly clear skin with a slight stubble growing in. 

His icy blue eyes which I could never get enough of were glistening with the city lights. His view amazed me each and every single time.

I feel his warm hand slip into mine and intertwine our fingers as he slowly turns to face me. Our eyes locking, my smile grows alongside with his and he pulls me closer to him, wrapping his arm around my shoulder as we continue walking.

Thinking my view on the left was the best thing ever, I'm proven wrong when I turn to see the view on my right... 1

I immediately freeze in place and fall in love upon seeing the sign Ice Cream

 "Ace...I-Ice cream" I say and start walking away from him, and towards the big old sign and enter the store

 "Are you okay?" he asks with a concerned look

 "I will be once we get ice cream-"I say and he lets out a smile.

Grabbing two cups of ice cream, we walk back out and find an empty bench. Taking a seat, we eat our ice cream and look out at our view of the beautiful city.I couldn't help but notice the big billboard in-front of us 

"The Met's new exhibition... featuring for the first time, works by Ace Anderson.." I read the sign out loud.

Turning to face him, I start to get flashbacks from not long ago when he took me to the Met art gallery and showed me the private exhibition which was still in the works, that beautiful garden that at the time I thought 'Liam Wilson' had created.

 I start to feel my blood boil and anger over come me. Remembering how that day was basically a big fat lie. He wasn't who I thought he was, it wasn't 

"Liam" who created the exhibition but in fact it was Ace.

Knowing that he also wanted me to come with him for thpe opening night as his date... I felt the hurt and betrayal of being lied to, overcome me again but I take breath and calm myself before lashing out.

"Can I ask you a question?"I turn facing him

He grabs my hand and looks at me with sincere eyes 

"Of Course"

 "Would you have or were you ever planing on telling me who you really were? I mean If it wasn't for your mom noticing, I probably would have never found out which makes me feel like a complete idiot now but, I want to know if you were planning on ever telling me" I say trying to calm my voice and nerves down.

He looks away and takes a moment to think, then after letting out a sigh, looks back at me 

"Eventually yes, but I was afraid of how you would react which is why I kept on second guessing if I should or shouldn't tell you"

This agitates me "Did you not think I had the right or even deserved to know?"I ask trying my best to stay calm because I knew deep down that my psychotic episodes of me lashing out on him from last time were enough and he didn't deserve another one now

 "Of course you had a right to know. Alexandra you never deserved any pain that I have put you through and I wish that I could go back and not make the same mistakes I did.

 The only thing I don't regret is meeting you. I know I truly don't deserve you but Im way to selfish to ever let you go because I love you so f*cking much. 

You are the reason I still breathe today and losing you is my biggest fear in life. Which is why I was scared of telling you the truth. 

Yes you deserved it but I was too selfish to risk losing you from my life." he says

I cup his face and place my lips on his. Our lips immediately move in sync with each other in this slow passionate fire filled kiss. Pulling away I look into his eyes

 "I h*te you so much for everything you've put me through Anderson, but the amount of love you give me makes up for it" I breathe out

He pulls me closer to him and claims my lips once again as I throw my arms around his neck.

I'm not one who enjoys PDA but siting here on this bench with Ace, I didn't give a single flying f*ck on who was watching or what other people thought. No one else other than him mattered to me, I loved this man so much.

Walking back to the car, Ace starts to speak

 "I want you to accompany me to the exhibition opening next week"

 "well obviously I'm going with you, It's part of my job as your 'wife" I say referring to the fact that I was going either way 

"No, Alex. F*ck the fact that you're my 'wife' but I'm asking you to come with my as someone I love." he says stopping and turning to face me 

"Well when you put it that way, I would love to accompany you Ace Anderson, not as your 'fake' wife but as someone who loves you too" I say with a smile

 "Under one condition tho... "I continue

He lets out a laugh

"What are the conditions?" 

"That there are no more lies... no matter how much you think they will hurt me" I say and ask 

"No more lies" he answers back with his eyes getting softer and cups my face, kissing my forehead

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After getting home from our little date, Ace gets a call from work and goes up to the home office to send a few emails. I waltz my way into the kitchen and see Molly packing up, ready to go home.

"Leaving already?" I ask her a bit disappointed since I didn't get to see her for much of the day

 "Yes my love, how was your night out?" she asks with a little smirk 

"It was goood" I answer feeling embarrassment rise to my cheeks as I put my head down and try to hide my smile 

"You need to tell me how this all ended up happening!" she exclaims

 "What?"" I question, not sure what she was referring to

 "How you and Ace happened!" she yells even more and I hush her, not wanting Ace to hear our conversation.

"We're discussing this over some coffee before I go home,

Ill make, go take a seat" Molly says, putting her things down and walking over to the coffee machine, getting ready to brew us two cups

I let out a little laugh

 "Ughh fine Molly, but there's not much to sayyyy" I answer, walking away to the sitting area

After she finishes brewing the coffee and pours us each a cup, Molly takes a seat beside me and begs me to tell a cup, Molly takes a seat beside me and begs me to tell her how this happened.

 I start with how he came over to the penthouse after I left that day and that we decided to make it seem like things were normal between us for the media. Then I told her how we just got closer and one thing just led to another.

"I want to give him a chance Molly, give Ace a chance.

Because I'm starting to see the real him and he's not at all what I imagined. There is more to him, once you peel back those walls he had built up. I truly love him Molly, and even though he lied in the past, I think he's still deserving of another chance." I say, taking a sip of my coffee. Molly always knew how to make my coffee taste perfect.

Molly doesn't reply right away but takes a moment to think "Alex my dear, you know I love you like my own daughter. And I know how much pain you've gone through the past year, which you never deserved.

What Ace did was wrong, lying to you about his death, actually lying to all of us, but more importantly, putting you through all of that. That is something hard to just forgive which is why I understand why you left that day.

But I'm glad you two are giving yourselves a chance to reconnect, work things through. You know I've been working for Ace ever since he bought this mansion.

I've seen him grow up from a young boy into a man.

A ruthless, cold hearted man who never opened up to anyone. He really was lost at a point in his life, especially after the accident. However, there's been a change ever since you entered his life. A good change. 

Im starting to see that pure heart of love that he has, the happiness in his eyes. All because of you Alex. He really does love you" she says

 "I really do love him too" I whisper back feeling my heart flutter at the thought of him 

"You two are great for each other, so I'm glad you're trying to work things out. Also the way he looks at you-"

I cut her off knowing where she was going with this and bury my head on her shoulder

"Mollyyy" I cry out a bit embarrassed

She lets out a laugh and pats my back "Alright my dear, I've got to go but remember, I'm a phone call away and besides, you can always find me here in the kitchen cooking your next meal" she says with a smile

 "I love you Molly, thank you" I say giving her a hug and a kiss on her cheek

 "I love you too sweetie, goodnight" she says and heads out the door

Locking the door behind her, I walk upstairs and see the office light on from under the door which meant Ace was probably still doing work. 

Not quite sure what I was supposed to do, I stand in the hallway contemplating if I should go to my old room? Hang out in his room?

I wasn't sure... where we even stood like was I now supposed to sleep in his room? I was just confused.

Standing there like and idiot trying to figure what I should do, I decide to just walk into my old room and maybe watch a movie since I had a little TV in there.

Walking in and grabbing the remote, I sit on my bed and turn on the tv trying to find something on Netflix. As I was scrolling through my options, I hear a slight nock on my door 

"Alex?" I hear Ace's voice from the other side of my door 

"Ya? Come in" I answer

He opens the door and leans against the door frame when he sees me sitting on my bed with the TV remote in my hand 

"Why are you in here?" He asks

 "I was going to watch a movie" I answer and point the remote towards the TV 

He looks at me a bit confused but walks closer to me and sits beside me on the bed

 "Are you done whatever you were doing?" I ask and he nods his head

 "Ya finished up this last case for a future project" he answers yawning

 "That's good, you wanna watch a movie with me?" I ask and he crosses his arms 

"Sure, but not in here" and in an instant, he picks me up as he stand up, throwing me over his shoulder

 "A-Ace put me down!" I yell but he ignores me and walks out of my room and walkS us across the hallway to his room 

"ACE!" I yell again and he finally places me on his bed

 "Why couldn't we just watch in my room!?"" I question

He gets on top of me and lowers his head, our lips inches away

 "The TV in here is way bigger" he answers with a smirk and gets up grabbing the remote, I turn and look at the massive tv on the wall.... yup he was right, it was way bigger.

I sit up and roll my eyes as he grabs the remote and lays down beside me, pulling me closer to him on the bed

Snuggling into his arms, he turns the TV on and flips through Netflix.

I realize Im still in my jeans and felt super uncomfortable

 "I need to go change" I let out a groan not wanting to walk back to my room, I was a really lazy person if ya'l couldn't tell

Ace pulls me closer to him with his head resting on my shoulder

 "No don't goooo" he whines

I close my eyes and lay my head against his, feeling too lazy to get up

 "Just take off your clothes" he mutters with his eyes closed 

"Then I'l be naked" I answer

 "Exactly" he opens his eyes and gives me a little smirk

I playfully smack his arm and sit up 

"Grab something from my closet" he answers and I walk over to his huge walk in closet

The closet alone was the size of my bedroom. I look over and only see suits, dress shirts, ties, shoes that all basically looked the same.

Then I see a little aisle of normal clothes- sweatpants and hoodies

I grab a pair of sweats and an oversized hoodie and change into them

Walking out, I place my old clothes on a chair and get back into bed, snuggling against Ace again

 "I didn't know you actually owned clothes that aren't just suits and dress shirts" I say acting surprised 

"Ha yes I do, I just never really wore them that often since I was always at work" he answers hugging me and placing his head on my stomach

 "Mmmm you smell good" he says

 "I do?" "mhm, like cherry blossoms" he answers with his eyes closed, he looked so tired

I place my hands in his hair, softly twirling and playing around in his brownish messy locks.

"Im gonna tell Molly to move your things here so it's more convenient" he says but then sits up, looking me in the eyes 

"Well I mean, If that's what you want..." he continues

Caressing his cheek, I smile back at him

 "I would love that" I reply and climb on top of him, Wrapping my arms around his neck and giving him a kiss on his lips which he immediately responds to Bitting his lower lip, he immediately switches our positions and is on top of me.

He pulls away from the kiss and I can't help but smile, looking into his glistening light blue eyes

I felt so safe in his arms, felt sO secure and felt so much love.

"Shall we finally decide on a movie?" I question and he pushes a few strands of hair away from my face

 "I think we should" he replies

We decide on watching "Titanic" since believe it or not....

Ace had never seen it!! He had literally been living under a rock this whole time. As per usual, I was crying by the end of the film where as Ace, was just furious

 "He could have fit on that door frame" he yells near the end of the film

I roll my eyes and let out a little laugh in-between my sobs.

Not sure how or when, but I ended up falling asleep.

Feeling safe and loved, in his arms.

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Tbc