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."

home. And 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 of going through a portal once the pregnancy

already discussed this, Nina. You're pregnant, and it's a complicated pregnancy. You're already on thin ice. It's

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

situations beyond our

danger, some kind of

Nina. Especially now, especially given what

slipping from

clear that he was restraining himself from saying something he would likely regret later. "You know it's

Because it feels a lot like you're trying to control my

his weary face. "I'm not trying to control you. I'm trying to protect you. And the little life

cracked, 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 I was being backed into a

decide, Nina. Either you go to the werewolf realm and stay with your parents,

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