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.

to confusion, as if his brain was trying to process the magnitude of the information it had just received. He paced in

the tests be negative?" He asked, his voice filled with a perplexed sort of agitation. "You told

my voice barely above a whisper. "It's rare but

it was then that I realized that I hadn't mentioned

went to the hospital, Nina? And

was going to tell you tonight. But I just wanted to enjoy

up in the air in an exasperated manner. "You should have told me as

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

him. "Alright, so it was a false negative," he said, shaking his head as though struggling to piece together the puzzle that had

Enzo, there's

heavy with a mixture of dread and curiosity. "Oh, god. Now what

It became clear to me within a few moments that he didn't recognize the term, so I explained. "It's a condition with my uterus that could make this pregnancy difficult. I've

to pale, the color draining from his cheeks as if he had jus been slapped. "Endometriosis?" he murmured. "And how long have you known

doctor at the hospital said I might have it, based on

to close in on us, the walls appearing to inch closer as if tightening a vice around my chest. I could see Enzo's eyes flicker with a mixture of hurt and understanding, a painful reconciliation of the reality that was

"Enzo?" I murmured, standing.

standing in front of the large window overlooking the ocean, and I had been so absorbed in

while I met with this hockey

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