#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.

me look at it,”

my leg out, wincing as he put his hands

alright,” he whispered. “It’ll just take a

leg, the pain started to fade. The throbbing in my head faded as well, and soon enough

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quietly, looking down at

with worry in his soft brown

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

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

“You gave it a

and paced over to my

drawing these creatures to the campus,” Enzo said. ” It’ll only get worse from

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

the bright red color that I had become so familiar with.

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

he said, tossing them down

your bed. “You’re welcome.”

another word, he stormed

and left me alone.

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

was that all about?” she said. “I heard something

sighed. “It’s nothing,” I replied.

could tell that Lori 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 the

hot 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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