#Chapter 409: To Be a Man

Enzo The night air was slightly chilly as I stepped outside, a welcome reprieve after the stuffiness of the bedroom. As I made my way toward the sprawling gardens that lined the surrounding area, Nina’s words echoed in my mind. “This is not your burden to bear,” she had said. “You don’t have to suffer in silence.” But was that true? Could I really open up about this to anyone, or would it just end in disaster? When my father had died, he had left some money—a good amount of money, actually. Nina and I had decided to put it into a retirement account, though, just to be safe. I kept a little of it, and I knew it would always be there if I needed it, but I didn’t want to use it. I always wanted to be the breadwinner, at least while Nina was still in school. I wanted to be able to provide for our family no matter what; hell, I wanted to make sure that our future child would never have to worry. But this… incident that had happened with Mila? One wrong step on my part,