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."

neither of us planned for," I shot back.

it does. But we can't undo it now. We have to think about

"And where do our

sound heavy with resignation. "Sometimes

shook my head, the lump in my throat growing larger. "I never wanted

his eyes meeting mine. "We're just adjusting them to

"I'm scared, too," he countered, his voice tinged with desperation. "You think I don't worry

in front of us, a plate of

I didn't want this, Enzo. This whole situation. It's not what I

you want to keep the baby, we have to accept that not all dreams may come true,

refused to let fall. "But it's hard, Enzo. We're being

am?" he asked softly, his hand reaching across the table to cover mine. "But maybe that's what love is, Nina. Maybe it's about making sacrifices for

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