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.

trying to process the magnitude of the information it had just

negative?" He asked, his voice filled

voice barely above a whisper. "It's rare but it happens. The tests came back positive at

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

hospital, Nina? And

my lower lip. "I was going to tell you tonight. But I just

exasperated manner. "You should have told me as soon as you went

"I was having bad cramps and I thought something was wrong, so I drove

that he was upset, but he wasn't an idiot. He wasn't about to dwell on the fact that I went to the hospital without telling him. "Alright, so it was a false negative," he

there's something

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

moments that he didn't recognize the term, so I explained. "It's a condition with my uterus that

cheeks as if he had jus been

nervously clenching the fabric of my nightgown. "The doctor at the hospital said I might have it, based on the symptoms and the cramping. If it's true, it could severely affect the early stages of pregnancy, maybe

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

"Enzo?" I murmured, standing.

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

you home alone while I met with this hockey team, only to find out that

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