#Chapter 28: Trust issues

#Chapter 28: Trust Issues

Nina

“What happened to you?” Enzo said as soon as I closed the door, rushing over to me and taking my shoulders in his hands and looking me over. I shrugged him off and limped across the room, where I kicked off my muddy shoes and sat down at my desk to rest my injured leg.

“You hired a talking skeleton to be my bodyguard?” I whispered, keeping my voice low so Lori couldn’t hear me.

Enzo folded his arms across his chest. ” Clearly you need protection, judging from your current state,” he replied.

I laughed. “I look like this because I was running from your bodyguard. You could’ve at least warned me.”

“Yeah, well maybe if you hadn’t run away from me last night and the night

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before, I would’ve had the chance,”

Enzo growled.

I rolled my eyes and went to stand, but a sharp pain shot through my leg and I fell back down on my chair with a groan. Enzo rushed over to me and kneeled in front of me. I pulled away as he went to put his hands on my leg and he looked up at me with an annoyed expression.

at

my leg out, wincing as he put his

whispered. “It’ll just take

my head faded as well, and soon enough I felt like I hadn’t fallen down a ravine at all;

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was another monster out there,” I said quietly, looking down at my lap. novelxo.com

me with worry in his soft brown eyes.

replied. “I was running from your skeleton bodyguard and fell down a ravine. He showed up and

doing here? You’re extremely lucky

asked. “You

and paced

you is drawing these creatures to the campus,” Enzo said. ” It’ll only get worse from here, and I can’t always be around to keep watch over

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can take care of myself. Tell your skeleton bodyguard to leave

now burning the bright red color that I had become so familiar with. “Why can’t

across Enzo’s face. He frowned, the red fading from

said, tossing them

your bed. “You’re welcome.”

word, he

and left me alone.

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he was already gone. Lori was still sitting at the kitchen counter, her mouth full of cereal, and she looked at me with

that all about?” she said.

I replied.

I returned to my room and peeled off my muddy

blood off of my skin, the events of the past few days swirled around my mind. Edward had tried to hypnotize me, but it hadn’t really worked… And now, I knew for certain that there

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