Chapter 0493

Nina

The air felt thick with tension, laden with unspoken words that hovered between us like a brewing storm. Enzo looked at me, his usually warm brown eyes now clouded with a kind of unknowable perplexity, as if he sensed the seismic shift that was about to rock our world.

"Nina, what is it you're not telling me?" he asked, his voice filled with worry. "You've been distant all night."

I avoided his gaze, focusing instead on standing and scooping my nightgown up off of the floor. I slipped it on over my head, then paused, feeling Enzo's eyes on me.

"Enzo," I finally started, my voice shaky despite the tidal wave of emotions that I was fighting so hard to control. "I have something to tell you, something... significant."

His eyes widened, locking onto mine, as if hoping to extract the truth through sheer force of will. "You're scaring me a little here, Nina. What's going on?"

With a deep breath, I let it out, the words tumbling out of my mouth faster than I had intended: "I'm pregnant, Enzo."

A heavy silence stretched between us. Enzo was speechless. I could see the gears in his head grinding to a halt before jump-starting again, as if rebooting to accommodate this newfound information.

"You're... you're pregnant?" he finally stammered.

"Yes," I whispered, the word barely more than a breath, yet carrying the weight of a lifetime.

it had just received. He paced in front of me, his eyes far away, before finally stopping and looking down at

asked, his voice filled with a perplexed

barely above a whisper. "It's rare but it happens. The

that I realized that I hadn't mentioned the hospital to him

went to the hospital, Nina? And

going to tell you tonight. But I

I'm even more worried," Enzo said, throwing his hands up in the air in an exasperated manner. "You should have told me as soon as you went to the hospital. Why did you

something was wrong, so I drove myself," I said. "But now I'm glad

dwell on the fact that I went to the hospital without telling him. "Alright, so it was a false negative," he said, shaking his head as though struggling to piece together the puzzle that had suddenly become his life. "So the home tests were wrong. Okay.

there's something else you

mixture of dread and curiosity. "Oh, god. Now

moment as I studied Enzo's face. It became clear to me within a few moments that he didn't recognize

he had jus been slapped. "Endometriosis?"

hands nervously clenching the fabric of my nightgown. "The doctor at the hospital said I might have it, based

the walls appearing to inch closer as if tightening a vice around my chest. I could see Enzo's eyes flicker

"Enzo?" I murmured, standing.

curly hair. Somehow, he had crossed the room during our conversation and was now standing in front of the large window overlooking the ocean,

anything, but... Here I was, going out this weekend and leaving you home alone while I met with this hockey team, only to find out

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