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

clenching and I almost feel guilty enough to tell him he can stop, but I keep my

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

chew on my lip, my breath on the edge

his condition, but he

covering my mouth as I

"He sent one

it wasn't

worse. Anyway, he

get him

can't help the hot rage that flutters through

holds my waist, shrugging. "Can we talk about something

I nodded. "Of course."

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

ask Aiden for the information, why could he not tell me the story

hot air and Aiden lifts his head to

him, nodding. "You don't have

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

I wasn't feeling too good, and then

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better,"

eyes and shake

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

back of my head. Still, I plaster on a smile and pretend everything's okay, and that I'm

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

is fine and smooth, until Zaid shows

Bye, Zaid

is he doing here?" Nikki whispers, watching Zaid

court.

my gaze on Zaid 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 turns his

hands dropping

and Aiden watches, though he stays right where he

drawls, smiling at

the name clipped.

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

can ignore the twisting in my stomach. "I was driving

I'd say hi."

frowning when she realizes he is not looking away

a tilt in his lips and I finally

"What do you want?"

"Why

make me feel so many things

control the rage he induces

can't blow out the heat he ignites in my

his head, a slow smile lifting his lips. "Aiden told

my jaw and

less of

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pain pierces through me, and I struggle to breathe.

someone."

of us like she's watching a

he whispers,

hands beginning to tremble. "My family died in

told you before, it's not

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

Nikki hissing beside

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

talking to my

eyes, and it takes a second too long for him to peel his eyes from mine. He's tense now, his nostrils flaring and his eyebrows twitching. He

just slapped in the face. He goes incredibly pale, but then he

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

evil and maniacally. "Watch what? You

the

truth?"

himself between Zaid and I. “No. I already told

the truth.

never

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

the gut

through me. I'm inclined to