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."

in an accident," I say, I don't know why, but I do, my voice trembling. "With my father and brother. They didn't make it

about, like he knows the pain I'm living

me

sorry, I didn't mean to

"You don't have

tightens his hold on my waist. "I have to change the tire okay, and then we'll be

squeeze on my thigh. He opens

falling, except for the random

his arm flex as he works,

exert more force. I inhale, shaking my

for checking out someone who

I'm not, because he looks

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Chapter 12

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

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

It all makes me

cheeks burning. He caught me practically devouring

finish your story?" He grunts, taking

much to tell, really," I frown as I look to the ground, the dam has been

with asking

me literally panic and sob until

fell from

my

nose

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