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.

getting picked as captain that year. Zaid was...he had gotten injured real

pauses, his jaw clenching and I almost feel guilty enough to tell him he can stop, but

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why the captain spot was open. We were celebrating

my lip, my breath on the

dared him to a car 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'

mouth as

eyes as he swallows thickly. "He sent one

god it

much worse. Anyway, he was arrested, tried, and

get him

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

my waist, shrugging. "Can we talk about something

I nodded. "Of course."

to take. I can only half listen, a little disturbed

information, why could he not tell

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

smile at him, nodding.

I wanted to check on you after

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

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made everything better," He whispers, smiling wide at

and shake my

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

in the back of my head. Still, I plaster on a

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

and smooth, until Zaid

Bye, Zaid

is he doing here?" Nikki whispers, watching

court.

as Parker and Aiden turn

"He never comes here."

hands tighten into painful fists and I set them on my thighs, my breath catching in my throat when Zaid

dropping to the

and me, and Aiden watches,

at her as she

Her tone is short, the name clipped. "What are you doing

his eyes to me. They rake me down to my toes

that I can ignore the twisting

I'd say hi."

frowning when she realizes he is not looking away

in his lips and I finally inhale a

"What do you want?"

"Why so

blink, hating that he can make me feel so many things at the same time.

control the rage he induces

blow out the heat he ignites

cocks his head, a slow smile lifting his lips.

my jaw and

less of me now,

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me, and I struggle

someone."

looks between the two of us like she's

he whispers,

to tremble. "My family died in

I told you

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

Nikki hissing beside me. "What do you

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

you talking to my

from mine. He's tense now, his nostrils flaring and his eyebrows twitching. He glares at

twitches, like he was just slapped in the face. He goes incredibly pale, but then he blinks out of

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

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

the

truth?"

between Zaid

the truth.

you've never

shift to me and for a moment my breath escapes me. I

the gut

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