#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

leg out, wincing as

whispered. “It’ll

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

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

up at me with worry in

bodyguard and fell down a ravine. He showed up

“Rogues… What are they doing here? You’re

“You gave it a

and paced over to my

the campus,” Enzo said. ” It’ll only get worse from here, and

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

bright red color that I had become so familiar with. “Why can’t you just accept that I care about you?”

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 things: my old, broken phone, and a brand new phone in a

he said, tossing

your bed. “You’re welcome.”

another word, he stormed

and left me alone.

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gone. Lori was still sitting at the kitchen counter, her mouth full of cereal, and she looked at me with a puzzled expression on her

about?” she said. “I heard something

replied. “Just talking about

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

water ran over me, washing the mud and 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…

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