#Chapter 56: Portal

Nina

“James… Run.”

“What?” he said. “I’m not gonna leave you out here.”

I cocked my shotgun as the yellow eyes continued to stare at me from the darkness, accompanied by the sound

of a deep, horrifying growl.

“You have to run, James,” I said, raising the barrel of the gun to point it at the creature in the forest. “Get Enzo.”

James grabbed my arm. “C’mon,” he begged. “It’s not safe!”

“Go NOW!” I yelled, spinning around and pointing the gun at him, tears in my eyes. James threw his hands up in surrender and backed away, then turned on his heel and ran off toward the camp.

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I turned back toward the creature, which was now emerging from the woods; it was a werewolf.

Not a rogue like the one I saw that night when I was running from Luke, though. Instead of some mangy, mutt- looking creature that appeared half human, this one was a huge, brown wolf that towered several feet over me. Its paws were bigger than my head, and the teeth that it bared were at least five or six times as big as the one that K had shown me around his neck in the coffee shop.

Had he even truly shown me a werewolf tooth, or was it all a lie?

My hands shook as I pointed the gun at the werewolf.

“Stay back!” I yelled, backing away. It only continued to approach me, saliva dripping from its massive mouth.

the giant

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to the ground in agony. The wolf yelped in pain; I just barely managed to roll out of the way before it fell on top of me, blood pooling on the ground beneath it.

It was dead.

Or, so I thought.

wolf began to shift, massive legs and paws turning into human

K

gasped and scrambled to my feet, backing away. He groaned and rolled onto his back, clutching his chest. I watched in horror as the hole where the bullet had buried itself

healed, standing and walking toward me

the gun focused on him, but as he approached me,

of my hands with ease and throwing it to the ground several feet away as he

one of

but he was so much stronger than me even in his human form that I felt helpless. All I could do was scream and hope that Enzo would come for

put his hand out flat in front of him like he was pushing on a wall and started whispering some strange incantation while

first, but grew larger and larger; a big, swirling portal

to take me?” I cried, tears streaming down my

a maniacal look in his eyes. “Unfortunately, I was asked to bring you back in one

one foot in the

I had no idea what was going to happen to me. No one would be here in time, and

Except…

like how instinct kicked in when I

in a slightly different

K as hard as

I spat out a wad

started to

my head on my way down and my vision blurred, but I kicked and clawed with all my might and somehow kept him from dragging me

her, asshole!”

from my thrashing to see him running toward me. With the moon shining above him, he looked like a dark angel coming to my rescue.

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drag me toward the portal. I felt my foot go

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