Secrets of Us A Forbidden Love Romance (Alina)

Chapter 259

Chapter 259

Zaid

I can't drive fast enough.

Her scent has filled up the car entirely, and she is all I can feel, see and breathe. She's sitting right next to me, so close and yet not close enough.

My fingers twitch on the steering wheel.

She's smiling, leaning back in her seat so carefree, like she's not feeling all the desperation I am. She glances at me every few minutes and the look in her eyes

tears me

apart.

She's so fucking happy. So fucking excited to be home.

She looks at me like she can't believe I'm real.

A year. Three hundred and sixty-five days, minus the month I thought she was still going to be over there. And somehow, I survived it.

I want to know every part of her again. Every new thought. Every new piece.

But mostly I want to touch her. Every inch of her, get to know all of that all over again, too. That part of me has been half dead since she boarded that plane.

of want. Out of need. Out of something in me that has been dormant and half-dead since the

beard,” she whispers, her hand reaching out to run her fingers

it.

eyes are wide, her lips tugged into a smile that punches straight into my gut. I

the same time. I swallow

video?" I manage, though my voice sounds like it hasn't been used in

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nods. "I love

car over. Her fingers linger, brushing over

me. Like she doesn't

I shouldn't be driving.

when my heart is in my throat and my

to know

now? Right now, I want to get home, because if I don't kiss her

still watching me. Still running her fingers

I'm real either.

her hasn't dulled. It's

slowly, and I feel the loss like

the wheel until my

worshipped her

ticket only the second time, but I managed to keep myself here at home. I went to bed with her picture on my nightstand and

name