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.

Now, do it. I'm not

You shouldn't have made a move on

my

"Do not

after you when he has me?" She wags her finger in my face and then gives Will a pointed look before spinning on her heel and

up from him. "You're not actually going to

don't want to, but I don't

me. I move fast enough to dodge it, but it makes me miss his other hand that grabs the front

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

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my neck and lifts me up against the

please. Whatever she's paying you, I'll

take down my body and he lifts

contorts in disgust.

His body massive and he covers my entire line of vision. All I can do

scream.

slams open and Will moves too slowly. By the time he turn to look over his shoulder, his head is snapped back

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

at the

cries, his

checking if the

freezes, his chest

him one last time in the gut before nodding his

through his tears as he forces himself up,

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

scoot back when he takes a long stride toward me, gasping when he

dance across the skin of my arms, my

"Zaid, stop."

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

I grunt, twisting my face away