Chapter 0790

"You can tell me," I finally choked out. "I just want to know if he..."

"He was alive, last I saw him," he cut me off, giving my hand a firm squeeze. "But... there was so much happening, Nina."

Despite the hope in his words, I could see the true emotion in his eyes: uncertainty. Hot tears began to prick at the backs of my eyes, and I quickly looked down at our entwined hands to bolster myself.

"Tell me everything you remember," I whispered.

By the time Enzo was finished telling me the story of how he survived the fires, what happened to Mila and my father, and how he got here, I felt as if a part of me had been hollowed out from the inside.

"So he... he really went after her?" I asked. "Just like that?"

Enzo nodded. "I'm sorry, Nina; all I know is that they went westward. What happened after that, I..."

the implications. He may not have survived. In fact, the chances were incredibly slim. "We have

voice was firm, his grip on my hand even firmer. "No, Nina.

"Why not?" I asked. "He's my father. He's

been growing

crazy bastard who went chasing after a dragon-wanting to refuse. But I knew

reaching up to tuck a strand behind my ear. "I know you, Nina. I know you want to be the heroine, that you want to do whatever you can to ensure the most valiant

blurred my vision. I quickly blinked

"I don't mean to hurt

do my part without jumping right into the fray. And that... that chasing down a Dragon Queen and an Alpha King isn't the only way to

my belly. Selena's words whirled through my mind, just as they had been ever since that strange dream. And there, in the corner of the

said. "Something that pertains

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