Chapter 0529

Nina

An ultimatum. The word hung heavy in the air between us, like a storm cloud threatening to burst. I felt my eyes widen, my pulse racing. An ultimatum? From Enzo, of all people?

"W-Why?" The word slipped out of my mouth before I could even formulate my own thoughts.

"Because I need to know you're safe, Nina. When I'm not here, I can't protect you," Enzo replied, his eyes still locked onto mine, intense and scrutinizing.

"But I can't just choose, Enzo. This is my home. And it's not fair for you to ask me to leave it like this," I argued, feeling the weight of his words sink in.

"Look, I know it's not fair. Life isn't fair," he retorted, the rigid line of his jaw and the stem set of his mouth the only hints of the emotional storm roiling inside of him. "But if something happens to you while I'm away because we didn't take every precaution, I'd never forgive myself."

what about school, my responsibilities here? I can't just drop everything because you've suddenly decided it's too dangerous for me to live my life," I shot back, my voice tinged with bitterness. "And don't say I can just open portals, because it's already draining enough as it is. I don't even know if I'd be physically capable

complicated pregnancy. You're

some damsel in distress. I can take care of myself. I've been doing it for years before you came into my

not saying you're helpless. But there are situations beyond our control,"

some kind of danger, some kind of risk. We can't live our lives in perpetual fear

mitigate those risks, Nina. Especially now,

words slipping from my

from saying something he would likely regret later.

feels a lot like you're trying to control my

passing his hand over his weary face. "I'm not trying to control you. I'm trying to protect you.

and I hated myself for it. Hated that I was showing this sort of emotion, hated that my own pregnancy hormones were getting the best of me, hated that

giving you an ultimatum," he said quietly, but firmly. "You have 48 hours to decide, Nina. Either you go to the werewolf realm and stay with your parents, or I quit my job

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