#Chapter 354: From the Brink

Enzo The weight of yesterday’s ultimatum was a stone in my gut as I walked into the tunnels. I kept seeing Nina's face, that look of shock and betrayal, like I had ripped the ground from beneath her. I didn’t want to do it. God, I hated myself for it, but it was a wall I couldn’t see past, a line in the sand I had to draw for her safety, for our family’s future. My pulse quickened with every step I took toward the room where the burglar was being kept. The tunnels had long since been cleaned up after the Crescent attack, and now served as our pack’s headquarters. The lights had been replaced, the rubble cleared, and Edward’s torture equipment burned to a crisp in a big bonfire. It felt entirely different now, although it still held the memories of the time that Nina and I spend down here. We often dealt with pack business down here, since the pack’s existence needed to be kept a secret. The only person who wouldn’t come down here was Nina, for obvious reasons. And I didn