Secrets of Us A Forbidden Love Romance (Alina)

Chapter 60

It Will Never Be

I fold another sweater and shove it into the cardboard box in front of me, not bothering to

keep it neat.

It will be a pain to dig through the box and figure out where everything is, but I

don't

care.

Mother hums to herself as she walks down the hallway from her room to the hallway bathroom. She seems to be unbothered by the chaotic mess.

Clothes, books and random things are scattered everywhere, all over the floor.

I roll my eyes and peek my head out of my bedroom. "Are you expecting me to clean up

all this mess?"

Mother stops with her shampoo in her hands, frowning. "Of course not. Jake is hiring a cleaning company to take care of everything we leave behind. Just take what you want."

"How can you be so calm about this?" I ask.

She shrugs, walking toward her room again. "I'm ready to start this new chapter of

our

lives."

A new chapter. Yeah right. Something tells me nothing is going to change except our living situation. "Does Jake know you're an alcoholic?"

She gasps, jaw dropped. "Don't be so dramatic. So, I like to finish my day off with a glass

of wine, that doesn't make me an alcoholic, Alina."

I sneer at her. She says it's a glass of wine, but it's more like bottles. With an s.

Moving into Jake's house feels more like stepping into a twisted version of my life than

of fresh start, and dread fills

I could keep living here and she could live with Jake and the guys. She told

tomorrow, and tonight is the rehearsal dinner. I don't know what's worse: pretending everything is fine

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end of the day.

confession that

Fuck.

be flattered at

roof as him. The larger part of me was

and I could get a place together,

And what?

I see a future

I don't.

fun. He makes me

shove another

walks to the living

hands.

coming, so the packing is quick. Jake's house is fully furnished, and I'm sure he

the boxes into the car, my stomach churning as I

my nerves eating me up too much to let

waiting for us outside. His tall frame leans casually against the doorframe, but his eyes are anything but relaxed. They're locked on me, intense and

he says, his voice low as I step out of

look away, my pulse racing. His words from yesterday echo in

only

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I'll get to

putting me in this position. And yet, I can't stop the wild flutter in my chest whenever he looks at me, when I

new room.

be your room," Jake says, opening the

a small desk for schoolwork, and a vanity tucked in the corner. There's no bathroom. The realization that I'll have to share

sandwiched right

room?" I ask before

be rude. You should be grateful you

for what? That I've been uprooted and shoved into

and