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 bad on a game and he was never able to play the

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

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

lip, my breath on the edge of

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 I

"He sent one man to

it

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

get him a

rage that flutters

waist, shrugging. "Can we

I nodded. "Of course."

they invited him to take. I can only

why Zaid had me ask Aiden for the information, why could he

head to press a kiss to my neck. "Want to go get some food? I'm

him, nodding. "You

was sick. I wanted to check on

good, and then my mother's outburst kind

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then I made everything better,"

eyes and shake my

out of the house and in his car, where he places his hand on

my mind off of the conversation we just had, but it still gnaws in the back of my head. Still, I plaster on a smile and pretend everything's okay, and that

park where the guys

fine and smooth,

Bye, Zaid

here?" Nikki whispers, watching

court.

keeping my gaze on Zaid as Parker and Aiden turn to him. They both

"He never comes here."

my thighs, my breath catching in my

dropping to the

walks toward Nikki and me, and Aiden watches, though he stays right where he

drawls, smiling at her as

name clipped. "What

eyes to me. They rake me

ignore the twisting in my stomach. "I was

I'd say hi."

realizes he is not looking

a tilt in his lips and

"What do you want?"

"Why so

blink, hating that he can make me feel so many

the rage he

the heat

a slow smile lifting his lips. "Aiden told you, didn't

clench my

less of me

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

someone."

shoulders rise and Nikki looks between the two of

he whispers, eyes

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

told you

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

Nikki hissing beside

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

talking to my

from mine. He's tense now, his nostrils flaring 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. "Why are you lying to

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

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

laughs, evil and maniacally. "Watch what? You scared

the

truth?"

Zaid and I.

the truth.

never cared until

and for a

the gut

that rattles through me. I'm inclined