Secrets of Us A Forbidden Love Romance (Alina)

Chapter 12

Chapter 12

I can't breathe, my eyes are shut and my entire body is trembling.

"Hey"

I hardly register his voice. I shake my head, trying to calm my breath when he

places a warm hand on my thigh. He traces circles into my skin.

"Hey."

I turn to face him, my eyes wide.

"It's just a flat tire," he whispers, his dark eyes etched with concern.

I let go of the door handle that I had been holding and flex my fingers. When I look out the windshield, I notice that we are on the shoulder, safe.

"Are you okay?"

I shake my head and the dam breaks. His eyes widen and he gets out of the car, rounding the front to come to my door. He opens it and kneels beside me.

"Hey."

I calm my crying and whisper to myself that I'm okay and that everything is okay. I feel him reach around me, feel him unbuckle my seatbelt. He grabs my waist with one hand a thigh with the other and turns me to face him, his hand cupping my cheek.

"Are you okay?"

I nod. "I'm sorry."

"Don't be."

but I do, my voice trembling. "With my father and

I'm talking about, like he knows the pain I'm

make me

I didn't mean

his head. "You don't have

to change the

me go with a squeeze on my thigh. He opens the trunk, pulling

falling, except for the random raindrop here and

in his arm flex as he works, his neck straining as he

more force. I inhale,

out someone who looks twice my

I'm not, because

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Chapter 12

I bet being loved by someone like him would feel a hell of a

know what's going on with me, if it's my brush with death that suddenly made me realize that I am going to die a virgin o the face that Alden has a girlfriend and I probably could not have pulled someone

numb. It all makes me want to feel

away, my cheeks burning. He caught me practically devouring him with my eyes, but

finish your story?" He grunts, taking

tell, really," I frown as I look to the ground, the dam has been broken and I'm much

me up with asking about

literally panic and

fell from

my

nose

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