#Chapter 51: Breaking News

Nina

I went to work that night with a smile on my face. It felt good to get back to work, and the diner was surprisingly busy, which kept me busy after

spending so much time in my head for the past couple of weeks. It was refreshing to feel like my life was getting back to some sense of normalcy; no Lisa, no skeleton bodyguard as far as I could see, and no strange attacks from feral werewolves.

Halfway through my shift, however, it seemed that the universe simply couldn’t exist without throwing some sort of drama in my face.

I was cleaning up dishes and wiping down tables after the dinner rush. It was quiet in the diner now, with only a few people seated here and there. I was whistling along to the music playing on the radio, and smiling to myself, just happy to be back in my old routine.

My smile faded when I heard the bell on the door jingle and looked up to see a familiar face walk through the door.

It wasn’t Enzo, or Justin, or Lisa, or even Luke. If it had been any of them, I would’ve been annoyed.

Instead, I was terrified.

It was K.

I knew he came looking for me specifically, and that this wasn’t just a crazy coincidence, when he walked in and immediately looked directly at me.

Seeing his face nearly made me drop the bin of dirty plates I was holding, but I somehow managed to maintain my composure.

“S-Sit anywhere you like,” I said with a forced smile despite my racing heart.” I’ll be right with you.”K smiled back and nodded, taking a seat at a booth in the corner. I took a deep breath and scurried into the kitchen, setting down the bin of dishes next to the dishwashing station and smoothing down my apron with shaking hands.

could just run out of the diner and never come back… but

which was under the counter out front, meaning that K could potentially see me calling for help and do novelxo.com fast updatesomething horrible. I barely knew this guy, and it seemed as though he was stalking me if he knew where I worked and exactly what time I would be on shift… Hell, for all I knew, he could’ve been a mass murderer of humans,

because then Enzo would think that I had been in cahoots with a supposed werewolf hunter. K might’ve killed someone that

was stuck

I steeled my nerves and

it was moving in slow motion as I made my way over to K’s table. The whole way there, he was staring directly at me — unblinking, unmoving. Like a hawk waiting to strike

you again,”

notepad to

can I get for

theatrics,” K

into his

it down on the table, then slid it to me. “You still not interested in having your

hands, I reached out and took the paper, my eyes widening as I

Hiker finds man brutally murdered in abandoned house on Newburgh hiking trails — Locals claim supposed

I raised

“Newburgh is-”

sweetheart,” K interjected. “Now you tell me

a lot of Lycans around lately,” I said. “It could be anyone.” I didn’t want to believe that Enzo would ever do such a thing. He had sat here, right in this very booth, and told me with all his heart

was big and towered over me, and it made me feel like a scared little field mouse in the shadow of a

said. “Come with me and we’ll find out. Once you get a taste of how good it feels to watch the light go out of their eyes… You won’t be able to

a few steps back, my eyes wide as I shook my head vigorously in horror.” No,” I replied, my voice shaking.

a killer?”

was too

and left me

newspaper.

shock, as K climbed into a beat up pickup truck and drove away. After what felt like an eternity, I finally became unfrozen and quickly stuffed the newspaper into my apron just

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