Secrets of Us A Forbidden Love Romance (Alina)

Chapter 44

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."

bed. "Did you expect me to be single for

I did. I will have to be fatherless for the rest of my life,

for her?

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

through the air before bringing

isn't about love. He has money. He's

of us."

the wave of discomfort fluttering

wasn't asking for

"You just met him."

"Yes, and?"

care of

"Yes."

wondering why she's acting like this is

"You can't be

and whatever calm she was holding onto disappears. Her

and she steps forward as she points a finger at me. "Fuck

taking a step

"You don't question me."

my head, still not knowing how to

she

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turns angry so fast.

have a roof over your head and

arms around myself, but I hold

a curse. If you had never been born, your father and

be here."

her don't hurt as much as they should because they are the same words I repeat to myself in my darkest moments. I blame myself every second of

holds me in its tight

the things I tell

exhale, having been holding my breath this

to my

room.

scream in when I bump

Aiden.

hands on my shoulders and looks down at me with a concerned

at him. "What are you doing

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

His hands drop from my

wiping the

talk to

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