#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

leg out, wincing as he put

whispered. “It’ll

faded as well, and soon enough I felt like I hadn’t fallen down

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was another monster out there,” I said quietly, looking

with worry in his

woods,” I replied. “I was running from your skeleton bodyguard and fell down a ravine. He showed up and fought it off. Said it

are they doing here? You’re extremely lucky

asked. “You gave it

Enzo stood and paced over

is drawing these creatures to the campus,” Enzo said. ” It’ll

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of myself. Tell your skeleton bodyguard to leave me the

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

pained expression flash across Enzo’s face. He frowned,

he said, tossing them down

your bed. “You’re welcome.”

another word,

and left me alone.

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

she said. “I

sighed. “It’s nothing,” I replied. “Just

going on, but she didn’t pry. I returned to

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… And now,

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