#Chapter 23 Monster

#Chapter 23: Monster

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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

stooping to look her

the eyes.

right over my heart so she could feel my heartbeat. She let her hand

said. “But I won’t stop watching you, because someone — or something — has sinister plans for

gears turning in her head. She shuddered again, but didn’t say anything Before I had

to stop her, she

room.

afraid of us,” Fio

replied out loud. “She

human, after all.”

The incantation I used on him would only last for so long before he reanimated again. Some witch must have put a spell on this skeleton, but for what purpose,

under my foot. 1 looked down and cringed when I saw Nina’s phone on the floor, its screen cracked now.

starting to twitch again. I stormed over to it and grabbed it off the stand,

to one of the tables by

sent you, and why?” I

the bewitched skeleton

chuckled.

me,”

I replied, tightening my grip around the skeleton’s throat.” What would an undead like yourself want with

skeleton didn’t respond, but I had to know the truth. My only option was to force an answer out of it. With my hand still on its neck, I reached over to a table next to me and grabbed the first instrument

bone saw so the skeleton

along the skeleton’s ribs. ” Your arm? Or maybe

start with a leg.”

the undead; without muscle or flesh, they were incredibly weak compared to most other supernatural beings. Becoming an

would argue that vampires

start with a leg,” I said, lowering the bone saw to

the skeleton cried out. “I swear no one sent me. I was attracted

leg and furrowed my brows. “What scent?” I

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