#Chapter 57: The Cumb

Enzo

I was awoken by the gunshot just seconds before James came running back to camp.

“Enzo!” he yelled. “Enzo! Nina’s in trouble! There’s something out there!”

I didn’t need to hear any more. I quickly unzipped my tent and ran out, having kept my clothes and shoes on in case of an emergency. Unfortunately, the other campers were also awoken by the gunshot, and were already coming out of their tents with panicked looks on their faces.

“What’s happening?” Jessica asked, rubbing the sleep from her eyes.

I cursed to myself as I realized that I would have to wipe all of their memories of this night. I wasn’t nearly as good at it as Edward, but I had no choice. I couldn’t have them following

me out into the woods and potentially seeing a shifter, or worse; I couldn’t have them getting killed.

“Get back in your tents and go to sleep,” I said as I borrowed Fio’s power to daze the group all at once.

They all stopped moving in unison,

their eyes widening as they began

blinking slowly. I hadn’t used this ability in so long that I had forgotten how easy it was to daze humans; the fact that Nina couldn’t be dazed, even by Edward, was solid proof that she couldn’t possibly be entirely human.

“This was all just a dream,” I said.

tent in a daze and climbed inside while everyone else slowly zipped their tents back up. Once I was certain that they were

of her might against a man who

arm, which was dragging Nina by the ankle. When she saw me, she reached for me, her teary eyes begging for help as

hand, yanking with all my might and freeing her from the stranger’s

a sobbing heap while the portal

Instead, I chose to keep watch through the window of my own tent to make sure she was okay. I had put a protective barrier around the camp when I first got here that would keep out any unwanted

came out of her tent in the morning,

said as she came out of her

“Me too,” Jessica replied.

Matt said as he emerged from his tent with a grin. I’d observed him on enough overnight hockey tournament trips to know that

boots on. “I’m gonna go collect some firewood so we can

her while everyone else was still rubbing the sleep from their eyes. She didn’t seem to mind the company; surely, after what happened the night before, she wouldn’t push me away quite so

enough away from the group. “I don’t know what would’ve

that I’d always protect you, didn’t

the ground.

in silence for a minute, but I had burning questions that needed

knew that guy,

asked.

nodding. “I did. I didn’t know he was a werewolf. He lied to me… serves me right for meeting strangers

the guy Luke said she met up with in the

I asked, calming my nerves so that I wouldn’t

were a werewolf, I didn’t believe you,” she said. “So I did research and found this guy on a forum he called himself K — who claimed to have proof that werewolves exist. I know it was stupid,

“Like what?”

know now that he

and decided not to pry any further. Setting down my bundle of wood, I walked up to her and took the wood from her hands, then pulled her into a tight hug. Much to my surprise, she relaxed into me. I thought I felt

said finally, pushing herself away from me and wiping her teary eyes with her sleeve. “I shouldn’t be acting like this, not with you and

not back together,” I replied. “When will you learn

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