Secrets of Us A Forbidden Love Romance (Alina)

Chapter 166

Chapter 168

Crossing a Line

We're frozen.

Suspended in time. I can't breathe, can't think. My heart is pounding hard enough that I

can hear it in my ears.

Nikki and I stare at each other, wide eyed and breathless, tying to smooth our

faces so we

don't have the truth of our conversation written in our eyes.

She motions with her hands for me to take a deep breath, so I do.

I take a breath. Then another. I smooth my hands over my hair, adjust my shirt like that's going to help anything, and make my way to the door. Nikki makes a dramatic motion of zipping her lips shut, throwing away the key, and sitting back against my pillows with the most innocent look I've ever seen.

I almost laugh.

I pull open the door. Shock spreads through me at seeing Zaid standing there.

He's got something behind his back, his jaw working like he's in the middle of chewing something bitter. His dark eyes soften when they land on me, and my

entire body reacts.

My spine shudders.

My breath turns light.

My heart stutters.

I miss him.

For a second, it's just us. I forget that Nikki.is there. I forget about Sadie, about all the shit happening around us.

But then his eyes flick past me and catch Nikki sitting in my room. The bubble around me

bursts.

"Hey, didn't know you were here," he says politely, dipping his chin at her.

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raises her hand in a

just a bit too hard to not look like

eyes turning back to me.

is tight, and I can feel the weight of impatience pulling on it.

watching us like she's at the

were just about to leave," I

"Please. Just

nervous, ticking, eyes shifting between mine

arms loosely and tilt my head. "Are

works, and he gives me a small, jerky

my chest twist. Nikki clears her throat behind me. "I

a second before sighing.

and gives me a quick

way out.

closing the door behind him with a gentle, careful movement, like he's afraid of breaking something. He exhales slowly, his hand dragging through his hair as

are written all over

really seen him like

voice is

this is

him, confused.

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behind his back.

box of

still. My brain does this dumb

spontaneously explain itself. I lift my eyes

swing the

right there on the other side, arms crossed and clearly eavesdropping. She jumps a little when I call her,

still holds the box out awkwardly, his fingers tight around the

and the second she sees it, her eyes widen. "Oh,

moment, like we're

looks at Zaid. "You think

He blinks. "What?"

Nikki throws herself into

pointing between herself and me. "We were

snaps back to me. His face is soft in that way it only ever is when he's caught off guard, like he's just been hit

laugh. "Guess you saved us a trip. And some

More like he's thinking through every possible scenario at once. I feel it like a current

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