Secrets of Us A Forbidden Love Romance (Alina)

Chapter 46

I Don't Talk to Zaid

Aiden rubs his fingers up and down my arm as we lay in my bed together.

He's still mostly dressed, but I was too lazy to put my clothes back on.

He sighs, his chest rising and falling beneath my cheek. "Not that I'm complaining, but

did you just use me?"

I chuckle into him.

His returning chuckle is warm and deep, settling the ache in the pit of my

stomach. "I

didn't mean to overhear."

I press my lips together and sit up, running my hand through his hair. "It's fine. I mean, I

guess you would have found out sooner or later."

"That your mom's a bitch?"

I chew on my lip, hiding the tilt of my lips. "She wasn't always."

His eyes lower to my breasts for a second and then he raises them back to my gaze, wrapping an arm around my waist to drag me back down to his chest.

I press a kiss to the corner of his lips and settle, frowning as I think about how to phrase my next question without giving away that Zaid and I were tangled in a web deeper than he could ever know. "I didn't know you and Zaid were brothers."

He stiffens beneath me and he tightens his hold on me. "You didn't?”

I shake my head.

He frowns slightly, watching me as if he is trying to gauge his own response. "I guess I never mentioned it."

"Nope." My face burns, and I hope to god I am not as red as a tomato.

"We're not exactly on friendly terms."

I tilt my head and keep myself from asking the question that needles me in the

back of my throat. Why? What happened?

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"And dad now wants to send him abroad, to boarding school after his expulsion."

My breath catches in my throat and I sit up, my hands on his chest. "He got expelled

because of me."

He shrugs, gripping my leg to bring me closer to him, placing his hardening length between my legs.

These men are as insatiable as they come.

"He would have found a way sooner or later, Zaid isn't exactly role model

material." He runs his fingers through my hair, swallowing thickly.

I ignore the burning in my stomach and run circles on his chest with my finger. "Is

it true he went to juvie?"

His eyes turn dark, nostrils flaring. "Why? What has he told you?"

His reaction throws me off and it takes me a moment to catch my breath. "Nothing. I don't talk to Zaid."

"Good."

I twist my lips relieved that he didn't hear the defensiveness in my throat. "What's the story there?"

His fingers still and he presses his lips together. "Why are you so interested in Zaid?"

"He's your brother, everything about you interests me." When did I get so good at lying?

He seems convinced, and frowns before inhaling. He looks at me, as if gauging how much he wants to say, how much he can trust me with. "I was there that night with him."

I hold my breath, not wanting to stop him.

year. Zaid was...he had gotten injured real bad on a game and he was never able to play the

feel guilty enough to tell him

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team, which is why the captain spot was open. We were celebrating that I was chosen. We had some drinks. Smoked

my breath on the

race. I tried to stop him, I tried to tell him he couldn't drive in his condition, but he didn't listen to me. He got behind the wheel' and

covering my mouth as

as he swallows thickly. "He sent one man to the hospital

god it wasn't

Anyway, he was

get him a

hot rage that flutters through me. "Only because he didn't kill

waist, shrugging. "Can we

I nodded. "Of course."

invited him to take. I can only

ask Aiden for the information, why could he not tell me the story himself? Was he too

stream of hot air and Aiden lifts his head to press a kiss to my neck. "Want to go get some food?

smile at him, nodding. "You don't have

I wanted to check on you after you left

feeling too good, and then my

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I made everything better," He

roll my eyes and shake my head,

his pants. Soon we're out of the house and in his car, where he places his hand on my thigh and blasts music with the windows down as we make our way

gnaws in the back of my head. Still, I plaster on a smile and pretend everything's okay,

the guys

smooth, until Zaid shows

Bye, Zaid

doing here?" Nikki whispers, watching Zaid as he

court.

on Zaid as Parker and Aiden turn to him. They both sneer, reluctantly talking to

"He never comes here."

fists and I set them on my thighs, my breath catching in

hands dropping

Nikki and me, and Aiden

He drawls, smiling at

tone is short, the name clipped.

to me. They rake me down to my toes and I press my

twisting in my stomach. "I was driving

I'd say hi."

at me, frowning when she realizes he is

his lips

"What do you want?"

"Why so

hating that he can make me feel

to control the rage he induces deep inside

I can't blow out the heat

slow smile lifting his lips. "Aiden

my jaw and

less of

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me, and I struggle to breathe.

someone."

the two of us like

he

to

I told you

"I'm not laughing, Alina. But perhaps you should ask Aiden for the

beside me. "What

Aiden join us. Aiden claps his hand on Zaid's shoulder, hard enough

talking to my girlfriend,

from mine. He's tense now, his nostrils flaring and his eyebrows twitching. He glares at Aiden. Their eyes are almost

then he blinks out of

head, grabbing Nikki's hand and telling her they should leave. Nikki reaches for me, but I

maniacally. "Watch what?

the

truth?"

forward, setting himself between Zaid and I. “No.

the truth.

you've never

me and for a moment my breath escapes

the gut

that rattles through me. I'm inclined to