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.

seen again. You made me feel wanted, not because I

my life trying to

you. More than you'll

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letter and give myself a second to breathe through it.

down her cup of coffee on the

"Everything okay?"

laughing. “You ask me that every time I read a

"They always have you

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

calm my voice before I speak. "I don't

I look at her incredulously.

"You can't be serious,

"I am."

very long. Maybe right now, he's the anchor, the deserving one, but

along, though I don't truly grasp the