#Chapter 50: Unwelcome Help

Nina

“Alright, alright, that’s enough,” Enzo said, the red in his eyes fading back to a soft brown. “Get back to training.”

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The team grumbled and set me back down on the ground, then started running again. I was still amazed at my landslide victory in the race, and stood there for a moment as they ran ahead.

Enzo walked up to me now that we were alone and gazed down at me with a half-smile on his face.

“You’re quite the runner,” he said.

“I guess so,” I replied. “I don’t know

what came over me.”

For a few moments, neither of us spoke. We were standing close enough that I could smell his sweat mixed with his cologne. Involuntarily, we were both leaning closer to each other. Close

enough to kiss…

Enzo stepped back and shook his head. He drew in a sharp breath before speaking.

“What you saw last night-”

“Whatever it is, it’s none of my business,” I interrupted. “We’re just friends. You’re allowed to do whatever you want.”

Enzo opened his mouth to speak, but before he could say anything, the team started getting annoyed and calling for us to catch up. Turning on my heel, I ran to join the group so Enzo couldn’t see my tears.

He lingered at the back of the group for the rest of the run.

When we finished our run, we came back out at the same spot we went into the woods, having gone in a big loop. Tiffany was sitting on the bench and flipping through some paperwork when we returned.

she asked, standing as I

would just seem like it came from all of the novelxo.com fast updateexertion and not from the feeling of Enzo’s red wolf eyes

her bag and. hoisting the bag onto her shoulder. ” I’ve gotta head back to the office. You did good

over my shoulder at Enzo and the rest of the team, I started to head in the direction of

Justin called from

be rude but also not wanting to give my ex any more false hope than

you for a minute?

again. Justin followed along

walked. “I know I’ve been shitty to you, and I’ll totally respect it if you just wanna be friends. But I also want you to know that I’m

looked in the coffee shop that day. He had been dressed eerily similar to Enzo; in fact, he was even dressed a lot like Enzo now in his athletic clothes, and seemed to have

to be like Enzo?” I blurted out, stopping and

wide eyes and stammered out a response. “N-No … W-What

my arms across my chest for a moment as I eyed Justin up and down, but

softly, “I liked you just fine before, and I think you should

slight smile started to play on Justin’s lips. “Does

I don’t resent you, but… I don’t see any

promise though that I’ll

I sighed.

you really do plan to work on yourself, we

wasn’t only working on himself

last glance over my shoulder

my nextclass of the day when my phone

looked at it to see that it

from the

“Hello?” I answered.

Phil said, sounding chipper.

been doing

going to ask me to come back to work? I really needed the money,

I’m sorry I jumped to conclusions before… If you’re not too mad at me, and if I gave you a raise to make up for it, would you be

then covered my mouth and cringed at my overly enthusiastic response. “I mean… Yeah, that would be good. When do you want me to

in

I would hang out with her, but

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