Secrets of Us A Forbidden Love Romance (Alina)

Chapter 44

I Met Someone

Mother's home when I get there.

I can tell, firstly because the door is unlocked. Secondly, because she's singing loud from the other side of the house with music blasting from he t.v.

My stomach drops.

She hasn't done that since before dad and Alex passed away. I drop my bag on the couch and hesitantly make my way through the hallway down to her room at the end of the house

"Mother?"

There's a pause in her singing and then the music stops, bathing the house in an uncomfortable silence. I steel my stomach, preparing myself for a barge of hateful words to spew from her mouth.

The door to her room whips open and she smiles at me, wide.

Her lips have remnants of last's night red lipstick, and her mascara runs down her face. "Alina, did school get out early?"

I frown. She's muttering, her lips wrapping around an unlit cigarette and I find myself in

shock that she isn't actively smoking.

"I wasn't aware that you knew what time my school day ended."

She rolls her eyes. "Serioulsy, Alina. Are you always so dreadful?"

I flinch, watching her as she turns from me, in her blue robe, leaving the door open. She's going through her closet, throwing clothes across her dirty room as she whispers to

herself.

My lips twist between my teeth and I wonder if I want an answer to the question I'm

asking. "What are you doing?"

"I met someone."

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Immediately, I want to cry. "You... met someone?"

She presses a dress to her front as she looks at herself in the mirror. "Yes. I think... I think

he could make me happy."

My ears ring and my vision turns blurry. "No."

drops the dress onto the bed. "Did you expect me to be single for the rest of my

fatherless for the rest of my life, why should it

for her?

shake my head, though. "No, it's just... it's

before

This isn't about love. He has

of us."

the wave of discomfort fluttering through

asking for your opinion,

"You just met him."

"Yes, and?"

talking about him taking care of

"Yes."

acting like this is the most normal thing in

can't be

tense and whatever calm she was holding onto disappears.

a scowl and she steps forward as she points a finger at me.

taking a step

"You don't question me."

head, still not knowing how

she

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turns angry so fast.

provide for you, that you have a roof over your head and I don't kick

myself, but

If you had never been born, your father and Alex would

be here."

words coming from her don't hurt as much as they should because they

me in

nothing compared to the things I tell

breath this entire time and turn to make my

to my

room.

in when I bump into a

Aiden.

places his hands on my shoulders and looks down at me with

at him. "What are you

to the living room. "Your front door was open, so I let

my shoulders

nod, quickly wiping the tears from my

she always talk to you like

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