Secrets of Us A Forbidden Love Romance (Alina)

Chapter 172

Chapter 174

I Need Them

I need to get out of the house.

The walls of my room have been starting to suffocate me and my head hurts from all the crying. Everything is closing in and I know I'm letting my thoughts go just a little too

crazy.

I can't sort through them.

I make up my mind to go bother Nikki. She'll listen without judging me and I think I need her overpowering personality right about now.

I text her before I even put my shoes on.

A: Coming over. Need some Nikki therapy.

Her response is immediate.

N: Door's open. I'll be waiting. <3

By the time I get to her house, she's already in the kitchen, digging through the cabinets. She barely glances at me as she pulls out an old bottle of vodka, shaking it for emphasis.

"Something tells me we're going to need this. Wait, you're not pregnant, right? You've been ignoring my messages."

I roll my eyes. "You mean the ones were you just send me the pregnant emoji with a question mark?"

She shrugs. "I didn't think I needed to spell it out for you."

I drop onto a stool at the kitchen island, exhaling sharply. “I'm not pregnant.”

Nikki freezes, then slowly turns to face me. Her lips part like she wants to say something, but then she just sighs, a deep sigh of relief: "Holy shit."

I let out a breath of my own as she twists the cap off the bottle and pours two shots. She slides one toward me before raising hers.

"To not being pregnant."

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I echo, and we both

down, but I barely

to say anything before Nikki is studying me,

else? Because that's not all

stare at my shot glass, running my finger around

shoot up. "Of course it

way he told me he loves me. The way it hit me like a freight train. How I don't know what to do with it, how it's all messed up because of

I finish, Nikki's jaw is hanging

she breathes,

my

"I'm so sorry."

of air and reach

long gulp from

watches me, tilting her

from the burn down my throat. I

and she plays with the

"Do you love Jake and Aiden like that

heart aching in my

her lips. "I think that

doesn;t feel right. It's different. I love

losing them would destroy me,

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me gather my thoughts, taking

be like losing my

it the alcohol making me

a lot, girl. How do you think they would all

"Do I have

widen. "Don't you want to tell Zaid

think I want to tell them all. I love them all. Ziad is just different. He sees me when I feel like no one else does. And it infuriates me that he finds it so easy to just brush

the same time?"

grimaces. "I would hope

dropping my head onto the counter. "Why is this

guys.

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