#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.

did this and where

growled, looking

skull again. novelxo.com fast

in the back of my car. Well, not my car, technically. A car

of keys out of

“But… Thank you. Can you get him somewhere secluded? I won’t let some asshole who drugs girls,

glance over his shoulder at Nina before pulling his hood up and

my breath and ran over to the kitchen to grab a

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

all over her and gently slid her shirt off over her head. I wiped her down with a clean,

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 and

fumed about the asshole who had done this to my Nina. How could anyone do this to

Nina was proving more and 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 the human world, but most people had

time to agonize over whether Nina was human or not, I let out a deep sigh and scooped her small body up in my arms. I walked over to my bedroom and laid her

down at her for a

myself for letting her

I hadn’t been such a fuck-up

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