Chapter 0606

Nina

By the time Enzo and I pulled ourselves away from our embrace, the clock read past four o'clock. I was beginning to feel restless, but Enzo was fast asleep. We had both dozed off yet again, although Enzo was more deep in sleep than I was.

With a gentle sigh, I carefully extricated myself from Enzo, my fingers trailing lightly over his arm as I did so. He stirred, his eyelids fluttering before he let out a contented sigh and settled back into sleep.

I couldn't help but smirk as I watched him sleep. He clearly needed it, and I wasn't going to wake him up.

But then my eyes caught it; the mark on his wrist. It was almost fully healed by now, but I could just barely make out the faint line where the bruise had been before. It wasn't so much the fact that he had the mark, it was the way he reacted when I pointed it out.

to have me look at it. He often

reaction when I had initially pointed the bruise out made me wonder if there

fight, maybe? A moment of clumsiness?

my closet and slipped it on, followed by a pair of slip-ons.

given me around my neck,

to the kitchen. My parents' voices carried through the air, and I could hear

entered the kitchen, I couldn't help but chuckle

and there was a hint of sauce smeared on his cheek. He stood over a pot of bubbling sauce, his brow furrowed in

island, a glass of wine in hand and a mischievous

the

on his face. "Ah, Nina, you've arrived just in time to witness my culinary masterpiece. Tonight, I

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