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Chapter 0557

Nina

We walked into the hotel room, the tension from dinner still palpable but left unspoken. Enzo set down his jacket and turned to look at me. Instantly, I knew that something was wrong.

"Why were you so vague about how we met, Nina? It seemed like you didn't want to talk about it," he said, his voice low.

I sighed, unsure of where to start. "It's not that I didn't want to talk about it," I said.

"Then why did it seem like you were nervous to tell the truth?" he asked.

I shook my head. "I just... I didn't want to say we had a one-night stand, Enzo. It's...complicated. You know, given the nature of our relationship now."

"Are you embarrassed about it?" he asked, his voice rising ever so slightly.

felt my face flush. "No, I'm not

embarrassed!" He cut me off, his tone tinged with disbelief. "Your face is all

the surface. "It's about privacy. Not

understand that? But our story is beautiful, Nina.

beautiful to us, but it's also intimate and personal. Mila was prying, Enzo. I didn't want to give her anything more

or scrutinizing. She was just curious, trying to strike up

"But I also don't need to divulge every intimate detail of our relationship to people we barely

"Come on, Nina. It was a simple question about how we met. I fail to see how it's

blood begin to boil. "It is intimate. We hooked up

needed to divulge that detail. I mean, seriously, 'we met in college? How much more vague could you have possibly been? It just seems like you're trying

know it. You know I've never been more sure about anything or anyone as I am about you," I retorted, my voice a pitch higher

just say that at dinner? Why couldn't you say that we met at a

history is our own, and we don't have to share it