Chapter 0540

The server came over, a familiar face who greeted us with a forced smile. "The usual?"

"Yeah," Enzo responded, handing back the menus. She nodded and left us alone, with nothing but the tension that we had brought in with us.

"I've been thinking," I began, twirling a napkin in my hands. "About what you said-the ultimatum. It's a lot to process in 48 hours, Enzo. I don't know if I want to move back in with my parents, and I'm not sure if I can make a decision like that so quickly."

He sighed, leaning back in the booth. "And I don't know if I want to quit my job, Nina. But one of us needs to make a decision. For the baby's sake/"

I shook my head, feeling a surge of frustration. "But that's just it. Why does it have to be so black and white? Why can't we find a middle ground?"

"Because sometimes life doesn't give you that luxury," he said, his voice tinged with weariness. "We have to be practical. We have a baby on the way."

I shot

me, his eyes searching mine. "Of course it does. But we can't undo it now. We have to

tabletop. "And where do our dreams fall into

heavy with resignation. "Sometimes

my head, the lump in my throat growing larger. "I never wanted to give up on them

says we are?" he said, his eyes meeting mine. "We're just adjusting them to fit a new

that." "I'm scared, too," he countered, his voice tinged with desperation. "You think I don't worry about losing myself too? And yet, I'm willing

front of us, a plate of fries and two milkshakes-just like old

Enzo. This whole situation. It's not

want to keep the baby, we have to accept that

said, my eyes filling with tears that I refused to let fall. "But it's hard, Enzo.

"But maybe that's what love is, Nina. Maybe it's about making sacrifices for

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