Secrets of Us A Forbidden Love Romance (Alina)

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Chapter 262

Chapter 262

Alina

5 Months Later (Thanksgiving)

I smile to myself, closing my eyes for a second as I inhale the smell of better and

roasted garlic. I mash the potatoes with a steady rhythm, humming to a song I've

had stuck in my

head all week.

It doesn't matter to me that I'm a bit off-key. Zaid is the only one here, and he

likes my

humming.

Warm arms wrap around my waist from behind, and I feel his chest press against my back just as his lips find the side of my neck. I lean into him, chuckling when his kisses trail

down slowly.

My skin breaks out in goosebumps, they ripple down my spine despite the warmth in the kitchen. I try to wiggle away from him and the ticklish sensation, but he keeps me locked

in his arms.

"Zaid," I laugh, "I have to finish the potatoes."

"Take a break," He whispers.

I roll my eyes and feel him grin against my skin.

That's just enough time to sneak upstairs and

little. Or a lot."

in his mine,

face him,

shake my

full of everything I still can't believe is mine.

soul-deep way he watches me like he's falling in love with me all over again. Every day, every time. It never

It doesn't level off. It stays high,

that undoes me is how constant it

whisper, "We can't. Aiden's bringing his new girlfriend, remember? I want to make a

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Chapter 262

little. "Are you afraid she's not going to

“Maybe? I mean, I don't know how much Aiden has told her about me,

a kind person. Besides, I wouldn't let her say anything

right about that, I trust

can sneak upstairs for

my head with a

who's just been

his chest before turning back

toward the living room, turning on music that drifts into the

and just as I'm wiping

with me," he

my hand into his, and we sway slowly in the kitchen, the afternoon light spilling in through the

the rough edges of our lives are just the right shape to hold each other. Everything between us

Aiden called to tell us he'd met someone, I'd never heard him sound so

me. Like loving me isn't something he's doing, it's something he is. And I wonder if he knows that I feel the same. That every time I

and let myself melt into the moment

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