His Dangerous Love On Ice Chapter 203: Olives's Pov

"That's possibly the most unhealthy declaration of love I've ever heard," I said, laughing through my tears.

"Probably," Zane agreed, pulling me closer. "But it's the truth. I don't know how to love in a normal, healthy way. I only know how to love you with everything I have, even if that everything is broken and fucked up."

"I don't want normal," I said honestly. "I want you. Exactly as you are."

Zane cradled my face even closer, and slowly, his lips covered mine, as he kissed me, slow and deep and filled with so much emotions that made it impossible to breathe, and when we finally pulled apart we were both shaking.

"Let me wash you," Zane said, reaching for the soap, and I let him turn me around so my back was to his chest again.

His hands were incredibly gentle as he washed my hair, massaging my scalp with his fingers, and I melted under his touch.

"Did you mean what you said earlier?" I asked quietly as he rinsed the shampoo out. "About me being the only person you've brought here?"

"Yes," Zane said without hesitation. "This place…this room…it's where I come when I need to feel in control. When the trauma gets too loud and I need to remember that I have power over my own body now. I've never trusted anyone enough to show them this part of me."

"Why me?" I asked.

Zane was quiet for a long moment, his hands stilling in my hair.

"Because you are my muffin," he just said, and his reply made me chuckled, because I didn’t know Zane could crack father’s jokes... because that was exactly the same thing Grayson would have said.

Grayson… my mind went back to him… and suddenly flashing to Brenda’s words, for a second, I hesitated, not sure if it was okay to inform Zane, a man who once saved my father’s company that my father was now making decisions in the company which was unlike him.

Decisions which I was scared might backfire against him.

“Grayson is making decisions for the company which is not in his nature… and I fear he might be controlled by someone… or something is happening which I do not know… I’d want him to be the one to tell me, but I know that would take forever or he might think I am overthinking and fuck… I’m rambling again.”

I felt Zane paused for a second, and for a second I felt a loss from the gentleness of his hands.

“Zane…”

“I’m just thinking...what sort of decision is he making?”

I almost rolled my eyes...“Like buying a large stadium when the company was just saved frm your father…”

“Ooh that...” I turned swiftly to stare at him, and theier was something in his gaze which looked familiar.

‘Familiar’

The words struck… as my heart suddenly raced… dread washingthrough y body.

“Zane…”

“What is it you are not telling me…?”

For a second, I watched him sigh and that mechanical look on his face like he was about to drop a bombshell or reveal something that would make me either forget about everything I said about love and finding myself.

“I am the new CEO of the Mercer Company.”

The water went cold, dropping to thirty degrees, my mind was blank for a second, because I was trying to process what he just revealed.

“What… start talking,”

“Muffin… baby please don’t get mad okay.”

“Do I look mad to you Zane?” He looked at me, his eyes narrowing as he saw the way my fist tightened, the sight that screamed and I could feel him internally groaning.

“Your father offered the company to me…”

“Why?” I watched something shifted in his eyes, but this time I couldn’t point it out which was even more annoying because I needed to know what he really felt about all of this, if he was happy… okay with taking my family’s company, if Hunter even knows about this… fuck… Hunter would kill himself if he founds out.

“He invited me over for a Grayson meeting and spoke to me about handing the company to me… to protect his company from any future crises like this, I tried rejecting his offer but I accepted.”

“Why? You should have rejected.., you don’t accept deals like this. You don’t just wake up to become CEO of a company which deals with data and numbers and people who tries to scheme way up to a better position. You are Zane Mercer… a fucking Racer. Why would you accept the offer?”

The bathroom was quiet, except of the little smoke emitting from the water that somehow Zane might have adjusted, and the silence in his face, lacking no expressions and all firmness, told me what I needed to know, because I’ve learned that Zane speaks louder when he was silent, when his face gave out nothing.

But the answer didn’t stunned me, because he had let me known many times, that he would own the world for me, if it gets to that.

“Let’s get put from the bathtub, so we don’t catch a cold.”

I tried to stand up, but his hands caught me, came wrapping around my wrist firmly.

“You are not going to be mad at me? For choosing this? For keeping you in the dark?”

For a second, when I turned to look at him, I wondered if Zane was never taught when to use an expression on his face when talking and when not to use.

I waved my head slightly, internally chuckling but the chuckle came out to Zane’s hearing and I saw his eyebrows furrows.

‘Fuck… I was meant to be mad.’ I internally chided myself.

“Yes, I’m mad, that my boyfriend didn’t tell me on time that he’s a CEO. All this while, I thought e was into Cars and ‘ME’,”

Instantly, his hands came around me, pushing me hard towards his chest.

“Ooh muffin. I’m…”

“Apologize Zane… say sorry… it wouldn’t break any of your finger or that cold heart of yours.”

I heard him chuckled above my ears.

“Hahaha… I am sorry Muffin… I could repeat how sorry I am as much as you want.”

He whispered, and his words sounded so genuine, so genuine that I instantly forgive him which shouldn’t be so. Perhaps I should learn how to be cold hearted from him.