#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

said, practically squealing with delight. Despite what she had said in the cafeteria the other day about Enzo, she couldn’t hide her fangirl

shotgun in case Enzo suddenly decided that we knew too much and that

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 second as if to warn me not to do it. I swallowed,

you guys should camp with us!” Jessica

Lori growled, glancing at

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

made me wonder now if he was using some sort of werewolf powers to make Jessica say these things… And when I saw

was manipulating Jessica into inviting him

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

response, then looked

over to our fire pit and setting down the firewood he had so nonchalantly collected on

As in… Graduate student

sort of game was Enzo playing

could ask, Enzo

toward me, her eyes

to which I shrugged in return. There was no use

sorry,” Jessica said. “I don’t know

stomping back over to her

I said, knowing that it wasn’t

in the morning, I

enough, the boys returned; and, much to my dismay, James

the clearing with their things. I blushed, mumbling a quiet “Hey”, and quickly looked away as I felt both James and Enzo’s eyes on me at the

walking over to an empty spot next to Lori’s tent, unaware that he would be barking up the wrong

Enzo could learn from.

over to me while I pretended to be

“Hey,” he said quietly.

didn’t hear him. He crouched down in front of me and pulled something out of his pocket, handing it

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