Secrets of Us A Forbidden Love Romance (Alina)

Chapter 252

Chapter 252

And then there was you. You with your eyes so full of sadness it felt like looking into a mirror. You scared the shit out of me, Alina.

Because I knew that it would never be fucking with you.

It would always be making love to you.

If I let myself have even a taste, I would never be able to walk away. If you only wanted me for a little while, for a way to escape whatever haunted you, it would have destroyed me.

That's why I waited, why I needed you to say it first. Because I couldn't survive giving another piece of myself to someone who didn't want to keep it, who didn't deserve it, who I didn't want to give it to.

I haven't been with anyone, not like I've been with you, since the hospital. I didn't think I ever would be again.

But everything in my head, all the control I have over my heart and my actions, falls apart in the face of you.

You're it for me. I don't want anyone else. I don't even want to think about another life, another body, another soul against mine that isn't yours.

made me feel wanted,

of my life trying to deserve

love you. More than

00

Zaid

down the letter and give myself a second to breathe through it. It

sets down her cup of coffee on the table and looks at me with a small

"Everything okay?"

me that

shrugs. "They always have

been struggling with some extra homesickness. I decided to read the letter during breakfast with Elena today to combat some

a stream of air to calm my voice before I speak. "I don't know if I deserve

look at her incredulously. She

my face. "You can't be serious, can

"I am."

they deserve it, relationships wouldn't last very long. Maybe right

her, nodding along, though I