#Chapter 23 Monster
#Chapter 23: Monster
Enzo
Nina’s eyes widened when I finally told her the truth.
“No,” she said, pacing back and forth and rubbing her head. “This isn’t real. Werewolves aren’t real. Talking
skeletons are not real!”
I sighed and stood, walking over to her.
“Look,” I said, pulling aside the torn fabric of my jeans to show her my wound. It was already healing. The torn flesh from the skeleton’s attack was rejoining without leaving so much as a scar. Even the blood disappeared.
When Nina saw my leg heal, she stumbled backwards into the wall, her chest heaving as she breathed heavily.
“I have to be dreaming,” she said. I watched quietly as she pinched her arm to try and wake herself up.
#Chapter 23 Monster
“This is real, Nina,” I said. “You’re awake.”
“Well then, I must be going insane,” she said as a tear rolled down her cheek.
I walked toward Nina and took her by
shoulders, stooping to look her
the eyes.
her hand and placed it on my chest, right over my heart so she could feel my heartbeat. She let her hand linger there for a
said. “But I won’t stop watching you, because someone — or something — has sinister plans for
She shuddered again, but didn’t say anything Before I had the
stop her, she
room.
afraid of us,” Fio
replied out
human, after all.”
the skeleton. The incantation I used on him would only last for so long before he reanimated again. Some witch must have put a spell
down and cringed when I saw Nina’s phone on the floor, its screen cracked now. “Shit…” I whispered, stooping to pick
starting to twitch again. I stormed over to it and grabbed it off the stand, pinning it, #Chapter
the tables by
and why?”
which the bewitched skeleton
chuckled.
one sent me,”
What would an
know the truth. My only option was to force an answer out of it. With my hand still
so the skeleton could see it, then began to lower
ribs. ” Your arm? Or maybe
start with a leg.”
without muscle or flesh, they were incredibly weak compared to
would argue that
a leg,” I said, lowering the bone saw to the skeleton’s femur. I let
skeleton cried out. “I swear no one sent me. I was attracted to the
blade away from the skeleton’s leg
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