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 chances were incredibly slim. "We have to find him," I said suddenly. "We can't just

firm, his grip on my hand even

father. He's the bloody Alpha King. We

down to my pregnant belly, which had been growing more and more by the day lately and was now a pleasantly

I had inherited from my father, the same crazy bastard who went

be the heroine, that you want to do whatever you can to ensure the most valiant outcome. But there are other ways

blurred my vision. I quickly blinked them away, staring down

Nina," he said softly. "I don't

placed my hand over my belly. "Sometimes, I forget that I can still 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

a long pause as I sat there, staring down at my belly. Selena's words whirled through my mind, just as they had been ever since that strange dream. And there, in the

something," I said. "Something that pertains to keeping those we

journal, the moonstone, the warnings from

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