Chapter 0519

Nina

The door creaked open, and I tensed, expecting to see the stern faces of my parents, armed with a lecture or two.

Instead, it was Enzo. His eyes met mine, and he looked softer than I'd ever seen him. Tyler gave me a knowing smile, touched my hand briefly, and left, closing the door behind him.

Enzo hesitated, his eyes shifting from me to the ground. The room seemed to swallow us both, making his silence fill the space like thick fog.

"Do you think I'm crazy?" I finally blurted out, unable to stand the tension any longer.

He looked up, his eyes locking onto mine. "Put on something suitable for going outside," he said, his voice gentle but firm. "We're going for a run."

I glanced at the window, confused. "Now? A run? Enzo, it's-"

he interrupted, his eyes flickering with an inner fire I recognized

That kind of

to my closet, I slipped out of

of the mansion, dodging family members and avoiding the areas where I knew my parents and their guests would be congregating. Finally, we reached the back door, slipped outside, and

forest behind the mansion. Once we were far enough from

asked, his eyes full of

our human forms melting away as our wolf forms took over. I felt an overwhelming surge of freedom, as though this was the most natural way to

like we had been locked up for years. The wind howled in my ears as

the visions, the dread, the confusion-it all

us no further, and then we stopped. Shifting back to our human forms, I looked around and realized where we were. The place was all too familiar, but I hadn't visited it in a

It was Selena's grave.

been buried, like it was the day of her funeral all over again. And yet, the grass had grown over her grave, the leaves on the trees had returned,

the rest of the world. A simple stone marker stood in the middle, Selena's name and dates etched into it. It

be here," Enzo whispered,

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