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.

again. You made me feel wanted, not because I was broken, but because you truly

of my

love you. More than

00

Zaid

down the letter and give myself a second

trembling hands. Elena sets down her cup of coffee on

"Everything okay?"

ask me

shrugs. "They always

the letter and set it back in the envelope. I usually read them alone in my room, but I had been struggling with some extra homesickness. I decided to read the letter during breakfast with Elena today to combat some of those

blow out a stream of air to calm my voice before I speak. "I don't

I look at her incredulously. She

sees my face. "You can't be

"I am."

last very long. Maybe

her, nodding along, though I don't truly grasp the