#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.

look at

stuck my leg out, wincing as he put

whispered. “It’ll just take a

well, and soon enough I felt like I hadn’t fallen down a ravine at all; aside from the mud all over

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quietly, looking down at my lap. novelxo.com

up at me with worry in his soft

replied. “I was running from your skeleton bodyguard and fell down

they doing here? You’re

asked. “You gave it

shrug, Enzo stood and paced over to

it is exactly, but something about you is drawing these creatures to the campus,” Enzo said. ” It’ll

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well,” I said, standing, “I can take care of myself. Tell your skeleton bodyguard to leave

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

immediately regretted it when I saw a pained expression flash across Enzo’s face. He frowned, the

tossing them down

your bed. “You’re welcome.”

word, he stormed

and left me alone.

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

all about?” she said. “I

“It’s nothing,” I replied. “Just talking about class,

knew something else was going on, but she didn’t pry. I returned to my room and peeled off my muddy clothes before getting into

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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