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.

group of basketball guys. I was getting picked as captain that year. Zaid was...he had gotten injured real bad on a game and he was never

to tell him he can stop, but I

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

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

as he swallows thickly. "He sent one man to the

it

he was

get him a

flutters through

waist, shrugging. "Can we

I nodded. "Of course."

basketball, about his school tour they invited him to take. I can only half listen, a little disturbed by

Zaid had me ask Aiden for the information, why could he not

hot air and Aiden lifts his head to press a kiss to

him, nodding. "You don't have

coach I was sick. I wanted to check on you

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

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everything better,"

my eyes and

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

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 on a smile and pretend everything's okay, and that I'm happy just where I

park where the guys shoot hoops and Nikki and I sit on

smooth, until Zaid

Bye, Zaid

watching Zaid as he strolls

court.

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

"He never comes here."

set them on my thighs, my breath catching in my throat when Zaid turns his attention to us. Aiden stiffens, the ball

hands dropping to the

and me, and Aiden watches, though he stays

at her as she inhales

the name clipped. "What are you

They rake me down to

I can ignore the twisting in

I'd say hi."

when she realizes he is not looking away

There's a tilt in his lips and I finally inhale a

"What do you want?"

frowns. "Why so

blink, hating that he can make me feel so many things at

rage he induces deep inside

that I can't blow out the heat he

slow smile lifting his lips. "Aiden

my jaw and

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 us like she's watching a ping-pong

he whispers,

prick my eyes, my hands beginning to tremble.

you before,

"I'm not laughing, Alina. But

hissing beside

hear the footsteps before we see Parker and Aiden join us. Aiden claps his hand on Zaid's shoulder, hard enough

to

and his eyebrows twitching. He glares at Aiden. Their eyes

the face. He goes incredibly pale, but then

and telling her they should leave. Nikki reaches for me, but I shake

what? You scared I'm

the

truth?"

steps forward, setting himself between Zaid and I. “No.

the truth.

never cared

to me and for a moment

the gut

I'm inclined to believe Zaid. Aiden looks