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.

the bargain?" She sneers. "Of course. Now, do it. I'm not staying to watch. I don't

late, bitch. You shouldn't have

shake my head. "I

"Do not

finger in my face and then gives Will a pointed look before

and shake my head, backing up from him.

don't necessarily have anything

his fist flying toward me. I move fast enough to dodge it, but it makes me miss

I cry, shocked when blood gushes down from

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my neck

please. Whatever she's paying

and he

contorts in

I won't double her payment. His body massive

scream.

to look over his shoulder, his head is snapped back

the ground, where I gasp for breath and look up to find Will on the floor and Zaid

the

Will cries, his arms

checking if the bleeding has stopped and

his chest heaving,

him one last time in the gut before nodding his head toward Jace. "Leave.

tears as he forces himself up,

all that tension returns when Zaid's attention goes directly to me. His dark

toward me, gasping when he wraps his arms around me

across the skin of

"Zaid, stop."

to look at my torso, I push his hands away, pulling the hem down. He moves his

twisting my face away from