Chapter 0538

Nina

The cool air and the quiet campus had always been a comfort to me. But even the cool evening breeze couldn't lift the heaviness weighing down on me as I fled the hockey arena.

I wasn't even entirely sure why I was running, but I knew I had to. My feet carried me across the empty athletic fields, and it wasn't until I broke through the line of trees that I finally slowed to a walking pace.

Eventually, I came to a small stream that was located along one of the many walking trails that the campus boasted. It was flowing in full force thanks to the summer rain, and it offered a bit of solace.

I plopped down on a fallen log, my eyes stinging as I fought to hold back a new wave of tears. This was too much. Even with my werewolf healing, the red mark Enzo left on my arm remained as a vivid reminder. It was a painful imprint not only on my skin but also on my heart.

You think that was okay?" I muttered, urging my wolf to respond, to offer

mean to hurt

excuse," I shot back, surprised at the bitterness in my own voice. "That's not Enzo.

to what had just happened. Enzo had shoved me, his pregnant wife, and

front of me, its water cascading over rocks, a natural course altered by

pain was as simple as the physical: a little bit of accelerated healing, a dab of supernatural ointment, and I'd be good as new, like

I knew that the hurt I was feeling

stream. I had become so wrapped up in my own fears,

things, done things that we couldn't take back, that lingered like dark clouds over our lives. Things that we couldn't tell the world, things that had to

it be that he was struggling just as much as I was all

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