Page 104 of Enforcer's Obsession

Locked eyes with the woman who haunted my dreams.

The one who had wormed her way into my soul.

“Are you real?”

Her eyes widened slightly, and she arched brow.

“Yeah,definitelydrunk. Enzo, can you help him stand? I don’t want him to collapse,” she said.

“I don’t need any fucking help,” I grumbled.

I stood, wobbled, and ignored my cousin smirking as he propped me up.

“That’s what I thought,” she said pointedly.

“Why are you here?” I said.

“That’s a conversation for another time. Let’s get you home,” she said.

I used what little bit of functioning brain I had left to make my way into the car.

I kept my eyes on Hope the entire drive, Enzo smirking as he looked at me through the rearview mirror.

When we got to my place, Enzo helped me upstairs and unceremoniously dumped me on the couch.

“You need help?” Enzo asked Hope.

“I think I got it from here,” she said.

“I’ll stick around. He does need to be alone right now,” Enzo said.

“It’s okay,” Hope responded. “I’m not going anywhere.

Those were the last words I heard before I let to sleep take me.

THIRTY-TWO

Hope

“You don’t lookany worse for the wear,” I said to Nico as he emerged from the upstairs and went down to the kitchen the next morning.

“Good,” he grumbled.

He hadn’t shaved, but his hair was still damp from his shower, his eyes surprisingly clear.

“Eggs?” I asked, gesturing toward the stove.

“No,” he responded, looking a little bit green around the gills, something I couldn’t help but laugh at.

“Have you been sailing, Nico? You look at little seasick,” I said.

“Ha-ha,” he muttered, though I didn’t miss his little smile.

I waited a moment and then broached the topic that had been on my mind. “That doesn’t seem like you,” I said.

“What’s that?” he asked.

He looked beautifully devilish with the sun beaming through the windows, highlighting streaks of brown in his hair and lightening the gold flecks in his dark brown eyes.

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