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 never able to

guilty enough to tell him he can

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why the captain spot was open. We were celebrating that

lip, my breath on the

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' and lost control. He ended

covering my mouth as

"He sent

god it wasn't

he was arrested,

get him a lighter

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

shrugging. "Can we talk

I nodded. "Of course."

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

Aiden for the information,

his head to press a kiss

at him, nodding. "You don't have

told coach I was sick. I wanted to check on you after you left

and then my mother's

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I made everything better," He whispers, smiling wide

my eyes and shake my

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

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

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

and smooth, until Zaid

Bye, Zaid

he doing here?" Nikki whispers, watching

court.

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

"He never comes here."

tighten into painful fists and I set them on my thighs, my breath catching in my throat when Zaid turns his attention to us. Aiden stiffens, the

hands dropping to the

and Aiden

at her as she inhales

Her tone is short, the name

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

so that I can ignore the twisting

I'd say hi."

when she realizes he is not looking away from

his lips and I finally inhale

"What do you want?"

frowns. "Why so

me feel so many things at

to control the rage he induces

blow out the heat he

his head, a slow smile lifting his lips.

my

less of

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me, and I struggle to breathe. "You

someone."

shoulders rise and Nikki looks between the two of us like she's watching a ping-pong

he

to tremble.

told you before, it's not

laughing, Alina. But perhaps you

hissing beside me.

footsteps before we see Parker and Aiden join us. Aiden claps his hand

to

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

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

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

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

the

truth?"

himself between Zaid and I. “No.

the truth.

never cared until

and for a moment

the gut

I'm inclined to believe Zaid. Aiden