#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 it,”

stuck my leg out, wincing as

alright,” he whispered. “It’ll

hands on my leg, the pain started to fade. The throbbing in my head faded as well, and soon enough I felt like I hadn’t fallen down a ravine at all; aside from the

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another monster out there,” I said quietly,

at me with worry in

your skeleton bodyguard and fell down a ravine. He showed up and fought it

here? You’re

I asked. “You

and paced over to

don’t know what it is exactly, but something about you is drawing these creatures to the campus,” Enzo said. ” It’ll only get

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“I can take care of myself. Tell your skeleton

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

know if I can really trust you?!” I shouted, then immediately regretted it when I saw a pained expression flash across Enzo’s face. He frowned, the red fading from his eyes, and reached into his jacket pocket. He pulled out two

he said, tossing them

your bed. “You’re welcome.”

another word, he

and left me alone.

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him, but he was already gone. Lori was still sitting at the kitchen counter, her mouth full of

about?” she said. “I

nothing,” I replied. “Just

but she didn’t pry. I returned to my room and peeled off

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

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