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.

was...he had gotten injured real bad on a game and he was

jaw clenching and I almost feel guilty enough to tell him he

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stepped down from the team, which is why the captain spot was open. We were celebrating that I was

on my lip, my

him to a car race. I tried to stop him, I tried to tell him he couldn't drive in his condition, but he

gasp, covering my mouth as I shake my head.

nods, avoiding my eyes as he swallows thickly. "He sent one man to the hospital with a

it wasn't

been much worse. Anyway, he

get him a

that flutters through me.

waist, shrugging. "Can we talk about something

I nodded. "Of course."

take. I can only half listen, a little disturbed by the conversation

the information, why could he not tell me the story himself? Was he

Aiden lifts his head to press a

smile at him, nodding. "You

I told coach I was sick. I

good, and then my mother's outburst kind of made everything more

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I made everything better,"

roll my eyes and shake

laughs and I dress, he follows me, zipping up 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 to

hard to take my mind off of the conversation we just had, but it still gnaws in the back of my head. Still, I plaster

later and we go to a park where the guys shoot hoops and Nikki and I sit on a

smooth, until

Bye, Zaid

whispers, watching Zaid as he

court.

Parker and Aiden turn to him.

"He never comes here."

catching in my throat when Zaid turns his attention to us. Aiden stiffens, the

dropping

and me, and Aiden watches, though he

smiling at her

tone is short, the name clipped. "What are

rake me down to

ignore the twisting in my stomach. "I

I'd say hi."

at me, frowning when she realizes he is not

lips and I finally inhale

"What do you want?"

frowns. "Why so

hating that he can make me feel so many things at

seem to control the rage

the heat he ignites in

cocks his head, a slow smile lifting his

clench my jaw

less of me

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through me, and I struggle to breathe. "You could've

someone."

between the two of us like she's watching a ping-pong match. Her lips

he whispers,

my eyes, my hands beginning to tremble. "My family died in

I told you before, it's

steps closer. "I'm not laughing, Alina. But perhaps you

beside me. "What

Aiden claps his hand on Zaid's shoulder, hard

to my girlfriend,

and his eyebrows twitching. He glares at Aiden. Their eyes are almost level, but he has to tilt his chin just a little to really see him.

in the face. He goes incredibly pale, but then he blinks out of his thoughts and sneers at his older

telling her they should leave. Nikki reaches for me,

and maniacally. "Watch what? You scared I'm

the

truth?"

setting himself between Zaid and I.

the truth.

you've never cared

eyes shift to me and for a moment

the gut

rattles through me. I'm inclined to believe Zaid. Aiden looks