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

for the

for her?

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

air before bringing them up to her tangled

isn't about love. He has

of us."

to stop the wave

asking for your

"You just met him."

"Yes, and?"

talking about him taking care of us, of marrying

"Yes."

my head, wondering why she's acting like this is the most normal

"You can't be

and whatever calm she

steps forward as she points a finger at me.

flinch, taking a

"You don't question me."

head, still not knowing how to deal with her

she

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turns angry so fast.

lucky I still provide for you, that you have a roof over

myself, but I hold

a curse. If you had never

be here."

hair flying across my face. The words coming from her don't hurt as much as they should because they are the same words I repeat to myself

guilt holds me

the things I tell

exhale, having been holding my breath this entire time

to my

room.

scream in when I

Aiden.

hands on my shoulders and looks down at me with

at him. "What are you

room. "Your front door was open,

over his shoulder to where my bag sits on the floor. His hands drop from my shoulders to my waist and he leans over until he grabs my attention

nod, quickly wiping the tears from

she always talk to you like

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