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."

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,

Nina. You're pregnant, and it's a complicated pregnancy. You're

been doing it for years before you came into my life," I

there are situations

going to be the case, Enzo. There will always be some kind of danger, some kind of risk.

risks, Nina. Especially now, especially

the words slipping from my mouth more harshly than

tightened at the corners; it was clear that he was restraining himself from saying something he would likely regret

feels a lot like you're

control you. I'm trying to protect you. And the little life

I hated myself for it. Hated that I was showing this sort of emotion, hated that my own pregnancy hormones

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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