Secrets of Us A Forbidden Love Romance (Alina)

Chapter 40

Chapter 40

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"I'm sorry," I whisper, just as he starts the car.

He shakes his head. "Don't apologize. I did the same thing to you, or do you not

remember?"

I sink into my seat remembering how it felt when he began to read the article about my accident, when he forced me into a panic attack.

The tension between us increases until I'm bouncing my leg on the ground to try and balance myself. He's angry, and it's coming off of him in waves. He grips the steering wheel until his knuckles turn white.

My phone vibrates in my back pocket.

A: Hey. I'm home now, need me to pick you up?

I roll my tongue inside my mouth and don't answer, instead I look outside the window, taking in the desert landscape.

It think about the last time I was on this road, about Jake and how that seemed to be the start of everything for me. The start of Jake and then the start of Aiden.

Koumpounophobia - Fear of buttons.

Rhytiphobia - Fear of getting wrinkles.

I fidget, remembering the sight of his broken heart plastered so clearly in his eyes. My heart rate increasing as I remember how angry he looked after the game, how he watched

me as if I had ruined him.

I'm so in my head, my mind spinning that I don't even realize we are in town until Zaid pulls the car a stop.

frowning as realize

"How-why are we here?"

to tell that wasn't Aiden texting you earlier

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he's done with practice?"

he been reading my messages? I look away from

his eyes.

shit."

think about the possibility that Zaid knows Aiden better than I do. What if he is right about

let myself think like

will be a snowball effect, starting with Jace, made worse by

before

"Alina."

bend over, looking at him through the open

smiles sadly. "Can I ask

It's an odd request from

school, go to the gym hallway and look at the basketball

his head.

going to do it until you tell me

hand from the steering wheel. "I'm not going to

just do it."

there. I have to give myself a few seconds to breathe, a few seconds to dispel the image of

the door handle.

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