Chapter 0501

Enzo

The engine of my truck hummed softly in the background as Luke and I sat in silence, our eyes peeled for any sign of Edward's pickup. The dashboard clock read 11:37 PM, and we had been at this for hours. Fast food wrappers sat on the dashboard, the scent of greasy french fries and burgers filling the car.

I was hell-bent on finding Edward. But he hadn't shown his face again so far, at least not here, near the gas station where I saw him before, and I was beginning to lose hope.

"You know," Luke finally broke the silence, "Nina would skin both of us if she knew we were out here, stalking this deranged lunatic without her."

I chuckled, never taking my eyes off the rearview mirror. "I know. But you also know Nina. She'd do the same if she were in my shoes,"

But maybe not now that she's pregnant. Maybe common sense will finally take over that girl's

to keep the baby. A swirl of emotions engulfed me: elation, dread,

quitting the new job?" Luke asked, reading my contemplative

it's crossed my mind," I said. "I can't bear the thought

all been through hell and back, Enzo. A baby is another chapter, not the end of the book," Luke reminded me. "Besides, Nina really cares about

own paths. "But what if something happens while I'm

daughter of the Alpha King. You

help. She's too worried about being a burden, even to

to it, I'll go back to being

don't have to do that,

to him in an alien language. "Contract or not, it changes nothing. My family died centuries

bond that no contract could ever forge. It was more

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