Secrets of Us A Forbidden Love Romance (Alina)

Chapter 153

Chapter 155

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The next day, I'm tidying up my room after a shower and before dinner. I grab a sweater I have on my bedside table and in the process, my phone falls on the floor.

It flashes on and the numbers from the corner of the screen stare back at me.

My heart goes into overdrive.

They're small, unassuming, but they define my entire life at this point.

February 14th.

I've been avoiding my phone all day for this exact reason. I didn't want to be reminded. And now I'm here, in the suffocating quiet, trying not to drown in it.

Burning rubber and gasoline.

The crunch of metal folding in on itself.

Flashing lights. Red, white, blue, like a strobe in the middle of the nightmare.

The images and memories bombard me, and I struggle to breathe.

I wrap myself tighter in the blanket I stole off the bed, dragging it with me like a shield as

I step onto the balcony of my room. The cold air bites at my face, but I welcome it.

It's sharp, cold... completely opposite to that day as I watched the first responders check my family for signs of life.

day, burning

was too

It's so dark and without lights coming from a large city, I can see the stars and the moon perfectly.

beautiful.

guilt that gets me.

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into the blanket, trying to silence the

I'm pathetic.

soft creak of the floorboards that makes me lift my head, wiping

Zaid's voice is

else I might have faked a smile for. Lied. But Zaid? I don't have the energy. And

think I don't

steps out onto the balcony, barefoot despite the

he always knows what I'm feeling just

anything; I don't trust my

and scoops me up, blanket and all. He

his lap, his arms solid and warm as they fold

my face in his chest, letting myself melt into him, breathing in the faint

of

smells like something

a moment, his fingers moving slowly against

head. He nods and

something. I feel his body tense under me. Not in a way that makes me pull away, but enough that I notice. Enough that I lift my head, peering up at

I ask, wiping

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