Chapter 0524

Finally breaking the silence, Enzo looked at me with a grave expression. "Nina, we should talk about... the other scenario."

I felt a knot form in my stomach. "What other scenario?" I asked, even though I knew the answer perfectly well.

He hesitated, clearly choosing his words carefully. "Well, what if this pregnancy... doesn't work out in the end?"

His words hung in the air like a dark cloud, casting the room into further shadow. It was a possibility, a cruel and ugly possibility that I hadn't wanted to allow myself to think about. But hearing him say it out loud made it suddenly all too real.

"That's not going to happen," I said quickly, as if saying it with enough conviction would make it true.

"We don't know that," Enzo replied softly. "The symptoms you're experiencing, the history with your mother-"

cut him off. "I don't want

mine, filled with a deep, soul-wrenching love that made it

that he was

happen, try to look on the bright side. That we could always trying again." The room spun around me. Even just thinking about the possibility of this pregnancy failing made me feel detached, like I was struggling to keep my head above water. "Try again? You

want you to feel like this is your only

tears stinging the corners of my eyes, but I refused to let them fall. "But what if it is?" I murmured, looking away. "What if I'm doomed to lose this child, and I can't have

moving closer to me on the bed. "I think you're tired, and you're scared, and you're angry. But

I muttered, brushing away a tear that had

remember our vows? For better or worse, in sickness and in

words broke something inside me, and the tears I'd been holding back flowed freely down my cheeks. "I'm scared, Enzo. I never thought I would be saying this, but dammit, I

a tight embrace. "And I'm scared too. But we're in

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