Chapter 0611

Nina

"I can't lie to you any longer. I'll tell you everything, Nina."

As Enzo spoke, I felt a combination of dread and relief take over me. I didn't want to believe that my husband might have cheated on me, but the signs all pointed to it. And yet, something told me to hear him out, because maybe he was right; maybe this wasn't what I thought it was after all.

"Okay," I said softly. Together, with our towels still on, we made our way out of the steamy bathroom and into the bedroom. The air was much cooler in there, and both of us quickly and silently dried ourselves off. I slipped into my plush robe, and Enzo pulled on his pajama pants before he sat on the edge of the bed.

Without a word, Enzo held his hand out for me. I took it cautiously, feeling how his fingers wrapped firmly around mine, and sat down beside him.

"I'm listening," I said, my voice barely more than a whisper.

He nodded, then took a deep breath and began to speak.

*It all started yesterday, the day before I came home to you," he began. "Mila needed help setting up some heavy medical equipment for the physical exams. I didn't really want to, but she insisted that she needed my help, so agreed."

I furrowed my brow as he spoke, but I said nothing. However, I couldn't entirely deny the thoughts that popped up into my mind: Enzo and Mila, bent over a treadmill, doing things that they shouldn't have.

But I managed to push those images away and focus instead on Enzo's story.

I was helping her, though, she started asking me to test out the treadmill

agreed again?" I

she got the wrong idea. She started saying

her hands on my husband made me almost sick. I tried to pull my hand away, but Enzo held onto

in and that thankfully defused the situation. But

asked, my

to the bathroom to call you, and when I came out, she had ordered me a drink," he said. "And Nina... I think she tried to drug me. The drug had very little effect on me, and I

"She tried to drug you?!" I exclaimed, unable to

and that I would come home and not have to hear

out of my chest. "Enzo, you should have told somebody," I whispered."

"I was worried about my career," he murmured. "I figured that no one would believe me; that they'd take her side over

Nina," he said. "The next day, she showed up to

felt like I was going to throw up. My body felt frozen, as though I was paralyzed. All I could do was

was against my will, Nina," he reassured me before I could muster up the strength to say anything." And I pushed her away immediately. But I guess I went too hard; I forgot

into Enzo's eyes, I could see

I whispered,

more than a whisper as he

her head

my heart begin to ache for him. This was a tricky situation for

issue of whether she was human or not. That, I could not explain. I began to wonder if maybe it was just that Enzo was taken by surprise at that moment, and

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