Cold-Hearted Princess Novel

Chapter 178 Getting ready

I knew that if I would find her in this room again, I would not be able to hold my anger back. But this time, I only found Gideon in there, sleeping soundly, I smiled while I watched him for a few seconds.

The Olympic games started soon, and I couldn’t wait to be with him.

I left the room, then I shut the door quietly. The feeling of someone’s gaze was on me made me turn my head in the direction. Nora stood there with a serious facial expression.

“Alice, have you decided to wake him up and have a bath in that room?”

I frowned.

“No, I’m just about to go to the same room I bathed in yesterday.”

She smiled with satisfaction.

“Great. I made the bath for you.” Then she walked away.

I wondered what happened to her. She should be angry with me because I told her about lunch late, but instead of being angry with me, she got the bathroom ready; I thought.

When I entered the room, I saw a dress and underwear on the bed neatly laid down. I still was not happy she touched my clothes, but I said nothing. When I went into the bathroom, a strong mint smell hit my nose, but I didn’t mind. I undressed. I put one of my legs into the bath and I nearly cried out. The water was hot, boiling.

“Is she trying to kill me?” I whispered, while I unplugged the hole to reduce the amount of the water, and I opened the cold water tap to make the water temperature bearable. When I finally sat in it, I felt better. I closed my eyes and I tried to relax.

“Alice!”

A scream escaped my mouth while Nora made me jump. She stood there, clearly staring at my naked body.

“For God’s sake, it’s only me. I forgot to get you a towel. Here it is.” and she put it on the rail.

“Thank you.” I could say nothing else out of shock. Closing my eyes, I knew that I would have to talk to her myself. I told myself I would wait until we are back and I would have a long chat with her about what she must change to stay with us.

Time passed like this. Nora had something for me every single day, but I had to admit that we needed some help till the Olympic games finished, and we had no time to waste finding someone new.

A few weeks later (Alice’s POV)

When I opened my eyes, I was full of excitement. Gideon slept next to me. He did not go to the club for a few days to sleep at the same time as me.

“Gideon, are you awake?” I whispered.

“Not yet.” He said.

I chuckled.

“It’s time to get up. We have to get ready.”

He opened his eyes and looked at me, then he took his phone to check the time. He made a face of dislike when he realised it was quite early.

“Alice, it’s too early yet.”

“We still have a lot to do.” He moaned as an answer, then he sat up.

“You can still sleep on the plane.” I told him.

“Definitely I will.” He said like he would have said what else I could do? He was right. The Olympic games were organised in Beijing. And the flight’s

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Chapter 178 Getting ready

duration was nearly thirteen hours. I probably felt the same as we slowly started to get used to the local time over there a week ago, which meant fifteen hours ahead.

I got up from bed, then I went into the bathroom. By the time I finished, he was up too. I awaited him to finish, so we could go down together. We asked Nora to come earlier, so she could help us to get ready. We packed our suitcases a day before, but I still wanted to make sure I had everything, especially those things that I needed for skating.

I did not wonder why nothing happened during breakfast. By then, I knew Nora only did her little games with me, and she never did anything in front of Gideon.

Just when I finished, someone rang the bell. I was not surprised to see Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan.

I watched the scene with my eyes wide open. Nora was like another person. She kept smiling at them, and she was looking forward to fulfilling their wishes. It made me angry a little, as she probably wanted to play her game, so if I would have complained they would not have believed me. Never mind, I thought. I needed to focus on the most important few days of my life.

Mrs. Sullivan took me upstairs after we spent a little time in the living room. She wanted to go through the content of my suitcase, just to make sure 1 packed everything that I needed. We had lunch after Sloane arrived too, then it was time for us to leave.

A few people of the Sullivans took our luggages out in the car and before we left Nora said bye to us, which made me feel nauseous, but I was in the game, just because of the others.

She hugged me.

“Alice, I wish you the best of luck, become an Olympic gold medalist champion.”

I smiled at her.

“Thank you, Nora.” I said, and even if I hated the situations like that, each time she started this I made myself remember she got to raise a child.

We got in the car, and we took the way to the airport, where we met the others. Ava ran to me happily.

“Alice, are you excited?”

I chuckled.

“No, not yet. I think we have to arrive first.”

“I don’t know how you could be like that. I would have bitten all my nails if I were you.”

“I was like that at the beginning.”

I held her hand, and we walked to Seth and Leah. Only they and Sloane traveled with us this time.