Chapter 0435

Nina

"Let's go for a walk," I said to Enzo. I nodded my head toward the forest, past where the groundskeeper was filling in my twin sister's grave with moist dirt. Over our heads, the wind was howling fiercely and the sky was darkening at a rapid rate while a freezing, sharp rain was beginning to fall.

Enzo looked a little surprised at my request to walk in this weather, but he didn't protest. "Lead the way," he said. I took his hand and led him past the groundskeeper, into the thicker part of the woods where the wind and the rain were less prominent. It felt a little silly to be walking through the woods in that weather while wearing a simple black dress, which had actually belonged to Selena, but I felt too compelled to walk and I didn't want to go back to the mansion.

"Where do you want to go?" Enzo asked curiously.

I shrugged. "Nowhere in particular. I just want to think clearly."

with the option to stay in the werewolf realm and live in the mansion permanently. If I lived there, I knew that I wouldn't have any worries for the rest of my life. All of my needs would be well taken care of, I would never need to worry about money again, and I could always be near my father. However, it wasn't home. Mountainview was my

long time in complete silence, holding hands and listening only to the wind whistling overhead and the trees creaking against one another. The frost that lay on the hard ground crunched lightly beneath our feet, and altogether these sounds created

hours, but neither of us cared. As werewolves, the cold didn't bother us very much. In fact, the cold made me feel invigorated and free, and filled me with an overwhelming urge to shift. Beside me, I could somehow sense that Enzo wanted to shift, too. It almost felt

nice weather; and somehow, as I stood there and looked around, I suddenly got the sense that Selena did just that while she was alive. It was as though our twin bond gave me the ability to sense her energy here. I closed my eyes for a moment and imagined her laying on a blanket in the forest with books surrounding her. Not much was known about Selena and her real interests, but I liked to imagine that she was an avid reader. She probably spent a lot of time reading romance novels, which was why

the Selena that I knew was just a fabricated image, a facade. A puppet to do the Luna's bidding. And yet, in the

that he was also deeply relieved that everything was over- for the most part. For us, it was over. My father would handle the Crescents. Perhaps Enzo could eventually get his revenge on Lewis for disrespecting his father, but other than that, we didn't have any part left to play in this. It

that I chose to go back to

all of the needless fights that I had with Enzo. I saw Richard's weak, dying body laying in Enzo's arms in the forest. In a way, moving to the werewolf realm was a way to have a fresh start. I would

at the frozen stream. I shivered slightly beneath

six hours,"

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