Secrets of Us A Forbidden Love Romance (Alina)

Chapter 172

Chapter 174

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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 throw

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

before

not

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

up.

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

finish, Nikki's jaw

she breathes,

my lips

"I'm so sorry."

steady stream of air and reach for the

long gulp

tilting her head. "You love him

grimacing from the burn down my throat. I fucking

with the glass in her

"Do you love Jake and Aiden

blink, my heart aching in my chest at the thought. "I

"I think that

right. It's different. I love Zaid, but Jake and Aiden feel as much

Like losing them would destroy me, too. But losing

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lets me gather my thoughts, taking a sip

like

the alcohol

a lot, girl. How do you think they

I have to tell

"Don't you want to

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

the same time?"

grimaces. "I

groan, dropping my head onto the counter. "Why is this so

guys. You need to talk

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