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."

well taken care of, I would never need to worry about money again, and I could

listening only to the wind whistling overhead and the trees creaking against one another. The frost that lay on the hard

we walked for. It felt like 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 as though our wolves were sniffing each other out and urging each other to come out and play. It was

just that while she was alive. It was as though

Other than that, the Selena that I knew was just a fabricated image, a facade. A

hardly spoken all day, but his touch gave away all of his emotions. I could tell that he was more deeply sad about Selena's untimely death than he let on, but 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

that I chose to go

of the needless fights that

ran his finger along my waist again as we continued to stand there and look down at the frozen stream. I shivered slightly beneath the cold touch of his

been six hours," Enzo

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