Chapter 174: Proposal 

The next day...

After saying goodbye to Nova the day before without taking their relationship to a deeper level, Vicente spent the evening with Eve and Nina, explaining his disappearance the night before and the "trip" he had to take the next few days.

Nina was getting older and, of course, was beginning to understand that her brother needed to be away from her occasionally to deal with his own issues.

Since she had enjoyed staying at her teacher's house the night before, she didn't find the situation too bad and wasn't sad to hear that her brother would be leaving soon.

According to Vicente, she could visit Shelby from time to time, but Nova would also look in on her when he had time. 

As someone who was very fond of both women, Nina liked rather than saw any problems with her brother's upcoming trip.

After discussing it over dinner, she slept with her big brother and woke up the next morning to have breakfast with him and go to the academy.