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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echo, and we both throw them

alcohol burns its way down, but I barely feel it. My mind is still

before Nikki is studying me, her eyes

not all that's eating

stare at my shot glass, running my finger around the rim. "It's

up. "Of

me like a freight train. How I don't know what to do with it, how it's all messed up because of everything he's done right and everything he's done wrong. The way he looked at me when I

I finish, Nikki's

breathes, shaking her

press my

"I'm so sorry."

out a steady stream of air and reach for the bottle, ditching the shot

a long gulp

me, tilting her

the burn down

plays with the glass

"Do you love Jake and Aiden like

aching in my

her lips. "I

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

of me. Like losing them would destroy me, too. But losing

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me gather my thoughts, taking a sip from the

be like losing my own

it the alcohol making me so damn

girl. How do you think they

I have to tell

you want to tell Zaid you

infuriates me that he finds it so easy to just brush me off

the same time?"

"I

dropping my head onto the counter. "Why is

"Because you're dating three guys.

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