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.

another hour. That's just enough time to sneak upstairs and mess

little. Or a lot."

turn in his mine,

to face him,

shake my head.

believe is mine. There's this look he gets,

in love with me all

doesn't settle. It doesn't level off. It stays high, burning in him and in

me is how constant it

"We can't. Aiden's

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Chapter 262

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

play with the button of his shirt, avoiding his gaze and shrug. “Maybe? I mean, I don't know how much Aiden has told her about me, but I feel like it would be

my hair behind my ears. "Give yourself for credit, love. You're a kind person. Besides,

he's right about that, I trust it. I

does that mean we can

my head with a

man who's just been denied air. "You're

his chest before turning back to the potatoes. He

on music that drifts

finish the mashed potatoes, add a bit more salt, and just as

me,"

his, and we sway slowly in the kitchen, the afternoon light spilling in through the windows. His arms wrap around me

Zaid have been the kind of perfect I never believed existed. It's like the rough edges of our lives are just the right shape to hold each other. Everything between us just

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

looking at 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 look at him, I still feel

myself melt into the

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