#Chapter 54: No Coincidences

Nina

Jessica, Lori and I had begun setting up camp not far from where the businessman had been murdered when I heard twigs and leaves crunching in the forest.

Someone was coming.

“Oh my god,” Jessica complained as she fiddled with her tent poles, “this is impossible! Lori, I need help!”

“Guys,” I said, but they didn’t hear me.

“I just helped you two minutes ago,’ Lori said, standing and walking over to Jessica with her hands on her hips while Jessica whined.

“Shh!” I said, which made them finally go quiet. “Do you hear that?”

My heart raced as I listened to the footsteps. They were getting louder, and definitely headed directly for our camp. I glanced over at my tent, which had the shotgun inside- 11 I could just get over there before anything bad happened.

“Hello?” a male voice called out from the woods.

I knew that voice anywhere; it was Enzo.

And hearing it didn’t make me any less terrified.

He stepped out into the clearing, holding a bundle of firewood with a backpack on his back and a big, stupid grin on his face.

as if he hadn’t followed us out here. I knew I should’ve stopped Luke!

surprise!” Jessica said, practically squealing with delight. Despite what she had said in the cafeteria the other day about Enzo, she couldn’t

shotgun in

He looked over at me just as I w novelxo.com fast updateas about to reach into the tent for the shotgun, his eyes flashing red for a split

should camp with us!” Jessica

growled, glancing at

Jessica replied. “It’ll be fun. You’d be okay

the first sign of a hot guy to forget all of our morals, but her nonchalance toward him in the cafeteria the other day made me wonder now if he

was manipulating Jessica into

no way out now. Regardless of what I said, he would. find a way to get

flashed another grin at my response,

collected on his way to stalk me. “I’ll just go get Matt and James, and we’ll be over in a

in… Graduate student

was

I could ask,

me, her eyes

the fuck?” she said, to which I shrugged in return. There was no

said. “I don’t know what came over me

growled, stomping back over to

knowing that it wasn’t Jessica’s

in the morning,

boys returned; and, much to

“Hey”, and quickly looked away as I felt

up the wrong tree if he tried to get with her. James

Enzo could learn from.

to me while I

“Hey,” he said quietly.

He crouched down in front

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