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    Chapter 0778


    Nina


    When Enzo and I finally pulled our lips apart with a wet smack, both of us just stared at each other, too dumbfounded to speak. Then, much to my surprise, Enzo... chuckled.


    "This uniform is huge on you," he teased, tugging at the loose ck armor and cloth.


    I blushed. "When in Rome," I muttered with augh of my own.


    There was another long silence as we gazed at each other. Looking up at Enzo, seeing his tousled, curly brown hair and his soft brown eyes was like something out of a dream. It had only been days since I hadst seen him, but it felt like an eternity.


    "N-Nina," he finally said, breaking the silence, "I... I''m so sorry. I don''t know what came over me... Of course you''d never cheat on me..."


    "Hey, it''s alright," I murmured, forcing a small smile as I reached up to cup his cheek in one hand. "We''re together now. That''s all that matters."


    But Enzo was already shaking his head vehemently, his expression twisting into one of utter self-loathing. Wrenching himself from my grasp, he dropped to his knees in front of me with an agonized groan, burying his face in the soft fabric of my stolen uniform.


    "I''m so sorry, Nina," he choked out, his voice muffled against my abdomen. "I can''t believe I ever doubted you, questioned your loyalty... After everything you''ve sacrificed for me... And our baby..."


    His shoulders shook as he clung to me, pressing his forehead into my pregnant stomach, which was bing more and more swollen by the daytely. I felt hot tears prick at the backs of my eyes as I clutched his hair, trying to steel myself.


    "It''s not your fault," I managed in a quavering tone, blinking rapidly against the wetness stinging my eyes. "M, she... poisoned you, twisted your mind with her magic and the poisons under the mountain-"


    "No." The word was ground out through gritted teeth. "Don''t make excuses for my weakness, Nina. I allowed myself to be corrupted, turned against the one good, pure thing in my life because of my own cowardice and fragility."


    He lifted his head then to fix me with a look of such raw anguish that I felt the breath leave my lungs in a harsh exhale. "You should have left me to rot in here," he said. "I deserve far worse than "


    "Stop it." I grabbed his face in my hands, bending down so our gazes met. "Just stop, Enzo. Please.."


    I felt the first hot tear slip down my cheek and ssh against his skin as I pressed my forehead to his. "You are the strongest person I know," I breathed. "And if the roles were reversed, if I had been captured and vited the way you were... I cannot even fathom how I would have coped."


    Swallowing hard, I slid my hands down to grasp his, linking our fingers together with a gentle squeeze. "Now,e on. Let''s get you out of here."


    Enzo nodded as he stood, gritting his teeth. But there was a look of fierce determination in his eyes that couldn''t have possibly died out, no matter what M had done to him.


    "But we can''t just leave," he said. "M, she... She''s torturing people, Nina. We have to stop her."


    I nodded, my pulse quickening. "I know. I met with the vige leader again, Kai..."


    Over the next minute, I quickly exined what had happened back in the vige. We didn''t have much time, so I kept it as short as I possibly could. When I was finished, Enzo''s jaw was set even harder.


    "We''ll get these people out of here," he said. "And I have a n."


    "A n?"


    Next, Enzo exined everything he had discovered-he told me about a panther, about their n to cause chaos


    in the arena so they could overwhelm the guards. He told me about how the panther wasn''t the only creature trapped here who was against M''s rule, and how there were others on the inside who would quickly turn to our


    cause.


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