#Chapter 41: The Calm Before the Storm

Enzo

I was just sitting down to watch a movie and drown my sorrows in a bowl of popcorn when my door suddenly burst open.

“What the fuck?!” I shouted, jumping up from my couch and spilling popcorn everywhere.

My eyes widened as I saw Luke come in, his skull exposed, carrying a limp Nina in his arms. He ran over to the couch and shoved me out of the way, laying her down while I stood there in complete shock.

“What did you do?!” I said.

“I saved her from getting sexually assaulted,” Luke said, stepping away so I could crouch down to Nina and feel her forehead. She was clammy and delirious, mumbling nonsense under

her breath.

this and

looking

covering his skull

I got him in the back of my car. Well, not my car, technically. A car that just happened to be unlocked with the

out of his

my forehead with my hand, sighing. “You can’t just steal cars,” I replied. “But… Thank you. Can you get him somewhere secluded? I won’t let some asshole who drugs girls, especially Nina, walk around as a

door, taking one last glance over his shoulder at Nina before pulling his

her stomach like she was about to puke. I cursed under my breath and ran over to the kitchen to grab a trash bag, but by the time I returned it was

on her side in case she puked again and running for a damp towel to clean up the mess. When I returned,

mess, holding my nose, then decided that I couldn’t let Nina just lay there with crusted vomit all over her and gently slid her shirt off over her head. I wiped her down with a clean, wet towel and

any other circumstances, I would’ve found her to be incredibly cute in one of my shirts. She was so small that it was like a dress on her, and I was able to remove her dirty skirt as well without violating her privacy any further than it already had been tonight

I was doing all of this, I fumed about the asshole who had done this to my Nina.

more every day to be out of the ordinary. Seeing her heal so quickly made me wonder if she was even human at all. Could she be a hybrid? They were fairly common in

in my arms. I walked over to my bedroom and laid her down in the bed, pulling the covers up

at her for a few moments, watching

hated myself for letting

I hadn’t been such

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