Secrets of Us A Forbidden Love Romance (Alina)

Chapter 9

Secrets of Us: A Forbidden Love Romance

Chapter 9

My heart hammers in my chest, that tinging in my ear increasing unil I swear I can't hear.

"I haven't done anything," I whisper.

She scoffs, "I saw you with him this morning. You let someone with girlfriend get that close to you?"

"Shouldn't you be more worried about the fact that he was so close to kissing me?" I can't help the way I scoff at her.

She stomps her foot and yells. "Bitch! He's mine!"

"You should be telling him that, not me."

That only angers her more and I don't move in time, partly from the fact that I am not expecting it at all. She slaps me. Hard.

My cheek stings and that crazy look in her eyes, in her pointed nose and arched eyebrows, intensifies. Her face turns red and her

nostrils flare.

"Stay away from him."

I hold my hand on my cheek and stand up straight. "Did you just slap me?"

She crosses her arms over her chest and lifts her chin. "Yes. And we'll do so much more than that."

We?

She looks over her shoulder. "Will!"

The door opens and a big dude walks in. He's tall, not muscular, but he for sure has not skipped a meal ever in his entire life. His shoe size looks like the two of mine combined.

then turns to Sadie. "You'll keep your end of the bargain?" She sneers. "Of course. Now, do it. I'm not staying to watch. I don't like blood." My eyes widen and

have

my head. "I

"Do not

Why would he go after you when he has me?" She wags her finger in my

up to Will and shake my head, backing up from him. "You're not actually going to hurt me,

I don't necessarily have anything against hitting a

me. I move fast enough to dodge it, but it makes me miss his other hand that grabs the front of my shirt. I scream as he

the side of my face and I cry, shocked when blood gushes down from my nose. I wipe at it, relief flooding me

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around my neck and lifts me up against

she's paying you, I'll double

down my body and he lifts an eyebrow. "She promised the

face contorts

now knowing that I won't double her payment. His body massive and he covers my entire

scream.

too slowly. By the time he turn to look over

ground, where I gasp for breath and look up to

the door, his eyes

his

my hand to my nose, checking if the

Zaid freezes, his chest heaving, his nostrils

him one last time in the gut before nodding

forces himself up, one

but all that tension returns when Zaid's attention goes directly to me. His dark eyes take me in, his nostrils flaring even more and his knuckles cracking when he

me, gasping when he wraps his arms around me and

dance across the skin

"Zaid, stop."

torso, I push his hands away, pulling the hem down.

fine,” I grunt, twisting my