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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being pregnant," I echo, and we both

but I barely feel it. My mind is

don't even have to say anything before Nikki is studying me,

not all

glass, running my finger around the

shoot up. "Of course

let it all spill out. The 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 everything he's done right and everything he's done wrong. The way he

finish, Nikki's jaw is hanging

breathes, shaking

my lips

"I'm so sorry."

air and reach for the bottle, ditching the

taking a long gulp from

tilting her head. "You

grimacing from the burn down my

with the glass in her

you love Jake and Aiden like

my chest at the thought. "I don't

purses her lips. "I think

feel right. It's different. I love Zaid,

them would destroy me, too.

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lets me gather my thoughts, taking a sip from the

be like losing my

it the alcohol making me so

do you think they would all

I have to tell

eyes widen. "Don't you want to tell

is just different. He sees me when I feel like no one else does. And it infuriates me that he finds it so easy

the same time?"

"I would hope

my head onto the counter. "Why is this so

three guys. You need to talk

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